Following a colloquy on the effect of intermarriage, an increasing phenomenon, on the question of who is Jewish, [Jonathan] Kligler cited “commitment” as an important facet of “community.” In Judaism, he said, an individual is expected to have a relationship with each element of the “great triad” of God, Torah, and Israel (with the latter referring to the people rather than the country). Meanwhile, the Jewish Congregation recently demonstrated its identity as a community by gathering at the home of a member whose father had died.
The first purpose of a religious community, said Maclary, who has served as pastor of Christ’s Lutheran Church since 1998, is to “keep the faith” – to seek an interaction with God and an understanding of the divine. In an apparent allusion to the so-called Religious Right, the Lutheran minister expressed concern over the recent prominence of an intolerant segment of the Christian community. “The word Christian has been taken hostage, derailed by a group of people with a political agenda,” she said. “My denomination and others have been drowned out by a minority and are struggling to reclaim our identity.”
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Local Clergy and the Town Supervisor gather in Woodstock, New York
Following a colloquy on the effect of intermarriage, an increasing phenomenon, on the question of who is Jewish, [Jonathan] Kligler cited “commitment” as an important facet of “community.” In Judaism, he said, an individual is expected to have a relationship with each element of the “great triad” of God, Torah, and Israel (with the latter referring to the people rather than the country). Meanwhile, the Jewish Congregation recently demonstrated its identity as a community by gathering at the home of a member whose father had died.
The first purpose of a religious community, said Maclary, who has served as pastor of Christ’s Lutheran Church since 1998, is to “keep the faith” – to seek an interaction with God and an understanding of the divine. In an apparent allusion to the so-called Religious Right, the Lutheran minister expressed concern over the recent prominence of an intolerant segment of the Christian community. “The word Christian has been taken hostage, derailed by a group of people with a political agenda,” she said. “My denomination and others have been drowned out by a minority and are struggling to reclaim our identity.”
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