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Tag Archives: Jews
Mormon and Jewish Parallels
The Salt Lake Tribune recently reported on a lecture given in Salt Lake City’s Jewish Community Center by LDS speaker Mark Paredes. A blogger for the online Jewish Journal, Mr. Paredes believes “Mormons have much more to say to Jews … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-Semitism, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Jews, Persecution
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“Mormon victims of the Holocaust”
The LDS Church is in trouble – again – with the Jewish community over the Church’s continuing posthumous baptisms of Jewish Holocaust victims. (See here and here for background on the 13 year struggle regarding this issue.) Monday (November 10, … Continue reading
Assurances and Promises
Here it is again. The LDS Church has once again been confronted with concerns from the Jewish community over the Church’s inclusion of Holocaust victims and survivors in the LDS International Genealogical Index. On Monday, as reported by the Los … Continue reading
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Mormons Should Try Walking in Jewish Shoes
It started in 1995. Jewish leaders met with LDS Church representatives in an effort to find a solution to the concern Jews had over posthumous proxy Mormon baptisms of Jewish Holocaust victims. The two groups signed an agreement aimed at … Continue reading
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