I still don’t get why some people feel the “Jews” killed Jesus. Jesus, a Jew himself, was crucified by the Romans. This is history. This is in the textbooks in many nations across the world. NO JEWISH PERSON/PEOPLE KILLED JESUS. This is quite clear, although there may be a few holocaust deniers out there saying “B.S.”!

The book, “Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews — A History” by James Carroll. A former Roman Catholic priest, details the history of the churches anti-Judaism. It has also been released as a DVD documentary by the same name.
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Constantine’s Sword is a sprawling work of history, theology, and personal confession by James Carroll (the author of An American Requiem, among many others). Carroll begins his landmark project by describing contemporary Catholic remembrances of the Holocaust and the Church’s intolerable legacy of hostility towards Jews. He then surveys Catholic anti-Judaism beginning with the New Testament and proceeding through the early Church, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, and World War II, before concluding with “A Call for Vatican III,” a Church council that would make meaningful repentance for an entrenched tradition of hatred. Carroll’s prescriptions for repentance, continued in a powerful epilogue, are bracingly concrete: “there is no apology for Holy Week preaching that prompted pogroms until Holy Week liturgies, sermons, and readings have been purged of the anti-Jewish slanders that sent the mobs rushing out of church…. Forgiveness for the sin of anti-Semitism presumes a promise to dismantle all that makes it possible.” Carroll’s personal reflections as an American Catholic infuse his historical narrative, and although his reflections are sometimes unnecessarily detailed, they are admirable for the principle they express: “I find myself unable to accuse my Church of any sin that I cannot equally accuse myself of,” he writes. Carroll’s judgments on the Church are rightly harsh, even agonizing. And yet his vision for a future rapprochement between Christians and Jews is hopeful, in part because he personally has come to understand the deep connections between Israel and the Church: “Jesus offers me, a non-Jew, access to the biblical hope that was his birthright as a son of Israel.”

People in positions of authority were afraid for their own status and situations. So they – both Jewish and Roman – conspired to have Jesus killed. It was not a group decision or a conspiracy of theology. It was bald, sterile, anorexic fear within individual people.
Now as to Matzoh – I love it with chutney and spicy jellies. It is a reminder of the sweet & spicy lives of our ancestors in faith and the sweet & spicy lives we are to live as well. But mostly I like it because it is cruchy without being salty or sweet.

For me eating matza at passover symbolizes the enslavement,oppression and struggle to gain freedom thruout the centuries and continues to this day for all Jews. We are constantly in a position to defend our existance and faith.

The blood libel has been transfused from Xtian to Muslim blood. Did we run out of Xtians? The hate needs no reason or logic or sanity; only emotion. The caricature of the Jews in Hamas TV is pathetic. More pathetic is the reinforcement it provides for the hate in those for whom truth has no meaning or place in the equation.
It would be sad except for its Kafkaesque qualities.

Rabbi Hirschfield,
A Blessed Passover to you and your family, and to all the readers of your post! Though I cannot add to the depth and heartfelt apology made by Pope John Paul II for all of the sins of my Church against your Community, I nonetheless share the full horror of knowing what was done to Jews in Jesus’ name. What I can do, and am doing, is raising three very enlightened little children who will be friends to the Jewish Community. No more blood libels!
Blessings!