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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1975
Page
8
Editor notes begin a five part Easter series on the Jewishness of Jesus and the anti Jewish record among Christians. The piece presents Moses and Jesus fasting forty days as a Torah rooted proving Jesus as a Jew whose life and teaching flowed from his heritage.
The article traces Jesus as a Jew shaped by Torah and temple life, stressing that Christianity emerged from Judaism. It notes centuries of anti Jewish persecution, modern Catholic and Protestant efforts toward reconciliation, and the Jewish roots visible in Jesus ancestry and early identity.
The five part Easter series by Associated Press religion writer George Cornell examines Christianity’s roots in Judaism. It covers anti Jewishness in church history, Jesus’ identification with his people and land, his crucifixion, resurrection, and later church developments regarding Judaism.
Jill Ker Conway becomes Smith College's first female president on July 1, directing the nation’s largest private women’s college. The report notes Conway’s diverse background from a London fashion school to operating a sheep station in Australia, and lists campus tensions and a recent discrimination ruling affecting Smith.
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