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There are no “Judeos”

A Misleading Hyphen Some people, including American politicians who want to sound “ inclusive ” and do not want to offend Jews, have taken the Latin term Judaeus and melded it with “Christian” to describe a so-called “ Judeo-Christian ” tradition or heritage. While there are many Christians in the world, there are no “ Judeos .” The accurate phrase should be “Jewish and Christian” traditions or heritages, without a hyphen. Each faith community has many religious streams; there is no one single “ Jewish traditio n” or “ Christian tradition ,” and there is certainly not a “ Judeo-Christian ” one. Source: Christians & Jews Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future By Rabbi James Rudin © 2011; Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT; p. 6.