{"id":3768,"date":"2008-08-17T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2008-08-17T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T18:04:22","slug":"rabbi-arthur-waskow-gives-up-the-jews-special-claim-to-the-land-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Arthur Waskow Gives Up The Jews&#8217; Special Claim To The Land Of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cross-currents.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/07\/the-other-giveaway\/\">Rav Adlerstein blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Waskow could have left it at that, but struck out on his own to reassure the indignant Muslim cleric that pigs and monkeys could sometimes take on human-like features<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is growing amongst the Jewish people a reconsideration of conventional theology to ask whether God promised the land, which some call the Land of Israel and others call Falastin\/Palestine, to both the families that descend from Avraham\/ Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, Rabbi Waskow offered to deconstruct Genesis so that it would no longer offer a special covenant with the Jewish people. In return for this, he hoped that dialogue would lead Muslims to &ldquo;a reexamination of the passages in Quran that say the Jewish people has a special relationship with the Land of Israel.&rdquo; We will both decide to take our traditions with a grain of salt, and find commonality in fuzziness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rav Adlerstein blogs: Rabbi Waskow could have left it at that, but struck out on his own to reassure the indignant Muslim cleric that pigs and monkeys could sometimes take on human-like features There is growing amongst the Jewish people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[597],"tags":[11369,7536,11367,11366,11368,9151],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yitzhock-adlerstein","tag-grain-of-salt","tag-land-of-israel","tag-muslim-cleric","tag-rabbi-arthur-waskow","tag-reexamination","tag-special-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}