the public opinion foundation oscar russians what they associate with jerusalem the hall a city of judaism christianity and islam twenty six percent of the respondents cited christianity ninety percent holy places fourteen percent associated this if it would do while a slam and judaism all sided only by two percent of the respondents each nevertheless the fact remains and christian is now on retreat in the middle east took. ok i'd like to go back to david here david in the beginning of the program we heard a comment that the one of the reasons for the exit is of christians is because of islamic fundamentalism and extremism but there would be people who would make the claim that there is. religious fundamentalism extremism on the on the jewish side and marginalizing christians as well getting stuck in the middle is this or maybe just more gentle the polarization of attitudes regarding religion is this squeezing christians out because they don't feel as we heard early in the program don't feel particularly comfortable in the muslim community and they don't feel particularly comfortable anymo

they want to create the religion in which they are wiping out any vestage of judaism. well, you are going to have some problems with that. jesus was jewish if i can say. his mother jewish. every one of the apostles. how can you do this? the nazis were trying to create something that was neopagan thing. it was a nazi religion. they knew if they continued to call it christianity, they can fool people who are ignorant. all of the german gentiles that go to church but don't know anything about the faith. bonhoeffer has the temerity to write a book on the psalms at a time when the nazi reich church was saying anything. to me, it's almost comical they were going this far. bonhoeffer does this. he's forbidden from publishing. what's he going to do? the nazis become more and more powerful. his options widdled down next to nothing. bonhoeffer in 1938 sees that war is coming. he was not a pacifist, but he wouldn't pick up a rifle to fight in hitler's war. he would never do that. what was he going to do? he decided to cut to the chase to go back to new york. to come back to new y

. >> hehad been a convert from the enemy of people to judaism. >> because of his unlowly birth, herod was threaten by the desen dents of david and burnethe genealogies of the jews. >> he settled in a village behind me, e town of the branch, referring to the branch of vid. today we know it better by its hebrew name, nazareth. >> boyhood home of jesus, filadelfia batak of ancient prophecy of isaiah. it didn't exist until 650 years after isaiah's time. at firstglance you won't find the word nazareneanywhere unless you read it in hebrew. >> matthew puts tolth the voice of several prophets, he'll be the branch comingfrom the place, nazarethit is a perfect fit. it is one of these little jewels matthew puts the that you have to dig to discover and understand. >> messiah was the shoot that came up out of the root of david. >> in jesus' day, only about 150 people lived in nazareth. once a family of kings, they now worked as farmers and shepherds, they recorded their genealogies and kept them hidden. by protecting their family history, ey were tracing the bloodline of the messiah. >> it was imp

have their own courses that i have talked about but opportunities to interface with buddhism, islam, judaism, and that prepares them for the kind of world we are living in where all of those faith traditions and world religions are found in any city or hamlet. >> that is exciting earlier you told me about a student there for that reason. >> yes. >> you had thanksgiving with them? >> yes we have a large contingent of international students and put on a thanksgiving festival for them and i found myself at the table with one young man in his early 20s who has come here from japan specifically because he wanted to interface -- learn more about the world religions. >> i see i was not here for your reception but your reception you were going to talk about the future of seminary education and connections with churches. >> yes. >> and some of those things. >> what is going on today is that there are some people going the traditional route of coming to seminary, studying for three years, this is of course after their under graduate education preparing for ministry and there are a whole wave of people

and your other books, what death depth of knowledge did he have in judaism? i know he converted to it. what was his knowledge in terms of commitment? >> okay. that question is a big layered question, and there's not enough time in the answer, but you'll find the answer in a book called "in black and white: the like of sammy davis, j.r.". >> okay. >> the injuries about boxes, sugar ray robinson saw this was a brutal sport. he fowgd a guy -- he fought a guy in cleveland, ohio named jimmy doyle and he faced severe knockouts in the state of california. he shouldn't have been fighting in ohio, but he was allowed. sugar ray robinson hit him with a punch in the chin, and it killed him. sugar ray robinson was threatened with arrest and a charge of manslaughter in 1947, so he knew that boxing took a awful toll on fighters, but he lived in america. it was segregated at the time. there was no jobs on wall street for blacks, no jobs in banks, few, few jobs in hollywood, so boxing was one way where a black man could become somewhat wealth, so joe louis, henry armstrong an

think in all of the world to have one state that isn't free by jewish tradition and by the spirit of judaism is feeling it appropriate i mean many countries have a stablish state church is. be a good church it is the send it in great britain but no one would suggest that. in the u.k. there is not. free to. democracy. rights for all of its citizens recently. foreign ministers put off the decision to recognize palestine how does this set back your mission well i think personally i would say my view shared by many others is that palestinian state should come out of direct negotiations between the palestinian authority in the state of israel and i hope that happens at some point soon but i think that's the way the state of palestine should emerge not by. recognition or decree from outside. recently a place c.n.n. interior ministry officials deny the holocaust and they call their legend and this sort of cases what impact can last protecting the holocaust have. i think you mean laws that would prohibit holocaust denial and it's something that we're all concerned about in the case of lithuania in f

of judaism is fitting and appropriate i mean many countries have a stablish state church is be a good church if it is a send it in great britain but no one would suggest that. in the u.k. there is not. freedom and democracy. rights for all of its citizens recently. foreign ministers put off the decision to recognize palestine how does this set back your mission well i think personally i would say my view shared by many others is that palestinian state should come out of direct negotiations between the palestinian authority in the state of israel and i hope that happens at some point soon but i think that's the way the state of palestine should emerge not by. recognition or decree from outside so your concerns for the rise of on line anti-semitism have been heard and never recorded quite a thing is to blame the media is it is it the media that's irresponsible or the legislators failed to protect the society you know this is a real challenge everywhere i think the last thing we want is to say somehow governments need to control media need to somehow prohibit wholesale this kind of expre

understand that there are different branches of islam in the same way that there are different branches of judaism or christianity i'm guessing they don't want to understand it and i think it was something that looked ok lastly you know how if you were in obama's shoes right now i mean how does that make you feel why what did you become president for how do you govern a country where everyone just blatantly refuses to look at the facts. i think you're frustrated i think i think you're frustrated i think that maybe you voice that frustration not personally but you have robert gibbs voice it for you. that you you probably spend a lot of time clutching those anger balls that we get at work the ones that you can keep on your desk those small she thinks i think it might seem a little bit hopeless to him at times but he he has to soldier on because that's his job and he will continue to do it but fifty years from now there will still be people who swear up and down that obama was a muslim muslim kenyan citizen of course sarah thanks so much for joining us and i'll make sure to call fox time we go to you

had no inkling whatever that in a few years hil whole life would be inextricably intertwined with judaism, with the jews of europe that on the easter sunday in new york city he goes to hear rabbi stephenn wise. i was amazed by this frankly and i have to say i got an e-mail from the grandson of stephen wise who was also named stephenw wise. what a joy to meet him and towe get to know him.s absolutely fascinating. in any case, bonhoeffer has an experience in a black church and i do have to say just imagine in 1930, eight towheaded, bespectacled berlin academic going to harlem every week. you can tell he is an amazingan guy that he is going up there but he is transformed by his experience and when he comeser back to germany in the summer of 31, everyone notices he is different somehow. what has happened to dietrich bonhoeffer? he was academically, theologically impressive when ho was younger but somehow he seemedm to take the whole thing thing more seriously now. he is no longer just into it academically. somehow it seemed to have grabbed hisve heart.e this experience with serious christiani

[laughter] and then chris says and you know, i'm thinking of convertinj to judaism myself, but only fort the weekend. [laughter] another quick quip as my know, colleagues in the senate know it is an honor to walk a state colleague down the center of oil here in the senate to be sworn in for a new term. w the first time i did thate we were or minn orman as we always, have, and chris turned to me and said you know, joe, there are y people who are worried that you may be the only person that will ever walk down in all i always. [laughter] welcome unfortunately that was not true because chris andad jackie got married and have had these two wonderful daughters ge greece and christina who have provided so much joy and satisfaction and hopefulness tou chris. i'm going to miss you personally, but all i speak for myself and speak for aboutn anybody in this chamber in se clo saying that we feel so close to you that we know our friendship will go on and i would say that chris dodd leaves anareer extraordinary senate career having achieved a record of results that has benefited the people o america

began with a principle -- >> probing the common root of the three religious tradition, christianity, judaisme goal of an exhibit at the new york public library. >> yes, there have been rough times, easy to talk about those. much more interesting, i think, to talk about what they have in common, the traditions they share. i think that as people know more about other faith traditions besides their own they will see that the people standing next to them are on the street are not that different from them. >> david is one ever the curators of the exhibit and a scholar of his jewish faith. >> among the commonalities of these three faith traditions that they all take their inspiration from the belief of a single man 3700 years ago, abe bra ma'am. >> look closely, the story of abraham's life is predicted in the margins of this hebrew text. right next to it a similar drawing in an arabic text. the similarities continue, christians, jews and muslims are all monotheistic, all believe in one god and share the idea that god's word seem to them through revelation. each relies on a text, a bible, the torah

w i notice that you have the three major religions of christianity, judaism and islam mentioned in the index and just any comment along those lines of the role hd they play in -- that they play in your book. >> can you expand the question a little bit? what exactly -- >> well, just religious institutions in general that you, their, the role that they play in your book. >> okay. sure. well, they pretty much inform the basis of the ethical questions, and so the section i read there there was mostly talking to pastors, well, who os the three folks that i read about. but then there's a fair amount from kind of the old testamentrs implications and a bit from the koran. so i definitely tried to the look at those institutions as kind of the historical basis for why wasting food is wrong and some of the historical solutions people have had. and so the idea of gleaning isli something that is in the judeo-christian bible where, you know, originally it was you leave the edges of your field unharvested so that the poordg could come collect food.ie come to take on a slightlyou different meaning,

, christianity did -- islam, judaism, christianity. if he had said he was an atheist, that would have heard a lot more than if he said he was jewish. host: 1 last culprit -- one last call. caller: i always identify myself as the truth all were of christ -- true follower of christ because i follow the word of god. when you say religion, there are so many definitions, but it is just the belief of one person, and that one person may impress other people to think as they do and you had a group. but according to the bible, there are only two religions, the religion of god, righteousnes and the religion of satan, sin. upon these tapes, all other religions are built -- these faiths, all other religions are built upon. guest: there are many religions and faiths and ways to believe. you happen to be a christian and those are your beliefs. i urge you to read and study and learn about other religions, of their faith -- other faiths, because i promise you it would be a real eye opener for you to understand other people's faith. in the end, what is

, christianity did -- islam, judaism, christianity. if he had said he was an atheist, that would have heard a lot more than if he said he was jewish. host: 1 last culprit -- one last call. caller: i always identify myself as the truth all were of christ -- true follower of christ because i follow the word of god. when you say religion, there are so many definitions, but it is just the belief of one person, and that one person may impress other people to think as they do and you had a group. but according to the bible, there are only two religions, the religion of god, righteousness, and the religion of satan, sin. upon these tapes, all other religions are built -- these faiths, all other religions are built upon. guest: there are many religions and faiths and ways to believe. you happen to be a christian and those are your beliefs. i urge you to read and study and learn about other religions, of their faith -- other faiths, because i promise you it would be a real eye opener for you to understand other people's faith. in the end, what

then chris says, i'm thinking of converting to judaism myself but only for the weekends. another quick quip, as my colleagues in the senate know, it's our honor to walk our state colleague down the center aisle here in the senate to be sworn in for a new term. the first time i did that, we walked arm and arm, as we always have, and chris turned to me and said you know, joe, there are people who are worried that you may be the only person i'll ever walk down an aisle with. well, fortunately that was not true. because chris and jackie got married and had these two wonderful daughters: grace and christina, who have provided so much joy and satisfaction and hopefulness to chris. we're going to miss you. i'm going to miss you personally, but i speak for myself but i speak, i would bet, for just about everybody in this chamber in saying that we feel so close to you that we know our friendship will go on. and i would say that chris dodd leaves -- to sum up, leaves an extraordinary senate career having achieved a record of results that has benefited the people of connecticut and

finally they are trying to get to us show the superiority of their -- the islam they subscribe to over judaism jewish and christian holidays at this time of year. bill: you mentioned the bowl games. there will be a series of them that begin this weekend and go on for 3-4 weeks and you mentioned nfl games. is that a new threat? i haven't heard that before, specifically. >> we have some reason to believe they are looking at various types of sports venues and sports activities. either in this country or overseas, because, what they know is that everyone is very festive at these games, at this time of year. a lot of interest in them. and as a consequence there are a lot of people and even if they cannot get into the stadium there are crowded parking lots and people amassed on the streets and so on and we are worried they may try to do something where they can find a large gathering and that would also include times square of course on new year's eve. bill: time to be vigilant, thank you for your time. we will keep an eye on that, again, the report came out of iraq, a bit earlier and we are watchin

not as judaism was at some point but always thought -- it strikes me as positively sinster that pope benedict should want to restore the catholic church to the ninth used to make that it is the one true church and the others are as we huts it defective. and how this -- if you tell me in the balkans what your religion is, i can tell you what your nationality is. any form of faith. because it is a surrender of reason in favor of faith. it is a fantastic force multiplier. a tremendous intensifier, i was trying to say. in all things are in crimes against hu mapty. crimesal against womanhood. crimes against reason and science and all these appalling things that the attorney kept defending himself from that i didn't even have time bring up. no. but if you would just look at the way the or in yugoslav y5eu. you will see that there is no conceivable way that by calling on the supernatural you will if -- [applause] [applause] >> tony, what i'd like you to do. there's someone on the stage. someone has the inverse question for you. it would be great if you would respond. let me go to emily who

it may do so bay don't ago jewish democratic constitution which grounds the tenets of judaism in everydaye but does so in the best spirit of our traditions of tolerance, freedom of thought, inquiry and debate. as this takes place arkse spiritual awakening my develop in israel, appear at jewish international renewal and in this period of international reveal as the jewish people become self-aware, no longer will israel be nation in which its knesset and courts denigrate preseps and values but rather draw deeply from its beliefs and values and during this period of jewish international renewal, when the jewish people come self-aware, no longer will israel be nation without relines. . as israel becomes self-aware t. will understand its purpose, its destine yifment as israel understands its destine why, the nations of the world and israel's enemies among the nations will understand and recognize israel's permance. when israel's enemies recognize israel's permance, then there will be peace. thank you. >> next is the chief spokesperson for the government of israel consulate in florida. he's als

it may do so bay don't ago jewish democratic constitution which grounds the tenets of judaism in everydaye but does so in the best spirit of our traditions of tolerance, freedom of thought, inquiry and debate. as this takes place arkse spiritual awakening my develop in israel, appear at jewish international renewal and in this period of international reveal as the jewish people become self-aware, no longer will israel be nation in which its knesset and courts denigrate preseps and values but rather draw deeply from its beliefs and values and during this period of jewish international renewal, when the jewish people come self-aware, no longer will israel be nation without relines. . as israel becomes self-aware t. will understand its purpose, its destine yifment as israel undersnds its destine why, the nations of the world and israel's enemies among the nations will understand and recognize israel's permance. when israel's enemies recognize israel's permance, then there will be peace. thank you. >> next is the chief spokesperson for the government of israel consulate in florida. he's also

you know, every major religion on earth, christianity, judaism, islam, you name it -- has always feltthat usury was immoral. and usury is when somebody doesn't have a whole lot of money and you helped them -- you lend them a lot of money, you that's immoral. every major religion, all great philosophers have written about this. and yet today, mr. president, we have millions of people in our country -- and i hear from vermonters every week on this issue -- who are paying 25% or 30% and in some cases even higher interest rates on their credit cards. 25%, 30% interest rates. that is getting blood out of a stone. and yet many of the credit card companies were bailed out by the taxpayers of this country. what the fed must do is say to those companies, sorry, you can't continue to rip off the american people and charge them 25% or 30% interest rates. now, as it appears, the four largest banks in this country, which are bank of america, j.p. morgan chase -- j.p. morgan chase, wells fargo and citigro citigroup, issue half of all mortgages in this country. four huge financial institutions issue

worked on for a number of year years -- you know, every major religion on earth -- christianity, judaism, islam, you name it -- has always felt that usury was immoral. usury. and we mean by usury is that when somebody doesn't have a whole lot of money and you lend them money, you don't take blood out of a stone, you don't ask for outrageously high interest rates when somebody is hurting. that's immoral. every major religion, all great philosophers have written about this. and yet today, mr. president, we have millions of people in our country -- and i hear from vermonters every week on this issue -- who are paying 25% or 30% and in some cases even higher interest rates on their credit cards. 25%, 30% interest rates. that is getting blood out of a stone. and yet many of the credit card companies were bailed out by the taxpayers of this country. what the fed must do is say to those companies, sorry, you can't continue to rip off the american people and charge them 25% or 30% interest rates. now, as it appears, the four largest banks in this country, which are bank of america, j.p. morgan c

you read the religious tenets of the major religions throughout history, whether it's christianity, judaism, islam, and others, what you find is almost universal objection and disgust and a feeling of immorality in items of usury. when we talked about usury in the united states, what we usually talked about were thugs, gangsters working on street corners who lent out money at outrageously high interest rates to workers, and when that money was not repaid back at the interest rates asked for, the thugs would beat the workers up. in fact, i'm thinking now about the first movie of "rocky." mr. president, i don't know if you saw the first movie of "rocky" with sylvester stallone. and before rocky became a successful fighter and the heavyweight champ of the world in the movie, that's what he w was -- big, tough guy and he beat up people who did not pay back the gangsters the high interest rates that they were asking. well, the world has changed. and now the people who are committing usury are not the gangsters on street corners all over america, their place has been taken by the c.e.o.'s of wall