ADL REQUESTS REMOVAL OF ANTI-SEMITIC LITURGY FROM ORTHODOX CHURCH
The New York-based Anti-Defamation League on Thursday urged the world's Orthodox Christian leaders to support a Christian proposal to
excise ancient anti-Semitic passages from their liturgy. The move comes less than two months after a group of Orthodox priests issued a public declaration calling on the Orthodox Church to review its longstanding theology towards Jews and the State of Israel, and to
remove anti-Semitic passages from its liturgy. The 10-page priestly declaration, which was first reported in The Jerusalem Post, calls for the renunciation of replacement theology and the removal of anti-Semitic passages from Church liturgy - particularly in Easter services. The dozen Orthodox priests who signed the declaration - some in open defiance of directives from their church leadership - are representative of five different Orthodox Churches, including the Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Georgian and Ecumenical Orthodox Churches. "We call on Orthodox Christian leaders to begin the process now to remove anti-Semitic passages from its liturgy," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director, terming the effort "long overdue." "Untold numbers of Jews have suffered throughout the centuries,
and today, in some countries where these churches are prominent, Jews are confronted by growing anti-Semitism, because of the failure to address this," he added.
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