Once converted, Old Jews quickly got the old lifestyles back and soon became one of the most prosperous people in Spain. ... "I repent having become a Christian," (qtd,in Kamen 41) a resident of Medinaceli claimed in 1504.Converts encountered hostility from both Jews and Old Christians. ... Many Conversos also kept up some Jewish practices and would give gifts of oil to their old synagogues. ... Under this, Conversos could never hold civil or ecclesiastical offices, nor could they act as witnesses or notaries, or exercise any authority at all over Old Christians. Franciscan friar Alfonso de Sp...

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As man has sought to quench his thirst for knowledge, lines of ethicality have been drawn to preserve the integrity of science, and provide a framework from which man can improve upon the quality of human life. ... In addition, the German Navy was losing a large number of personnel in the cold North Sea. There were no data available to document how long the downed pilots could survive in the frigid North Sea. ... Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, states that Nazi experiments are such a gross violation of human standards that they are not to be trusted at all...how c...

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"AND IN THE VERY PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD," GENTILES, WHO DID NOT STRIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAVE ATTAINED IT, THAT IS, RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH; BUT ISRAEL, WHO DID STRIVE FOR THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BASED ON THE LAW, DID NOT SUCCEED IN FULFILLING THAT LAW [ROMANS 9] "In proclaiming his Christian message Paul stressed that the Jewish nation had been rejected by God, and the new Covenant had superseded the old," said David Cohn-Sherbok, in his book The Crucified Jew. ... [JOHN 19:7] THE JEWS CRIED OUT,...

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By 1936, Jewish settlers in Palestine were adding to their territories by sometimes taking advantage of an old Palestinian law about taking possession of land (Noble 49). ... Jewish settlements needed means to conduct business through the seas. ...

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