Rev. Dr. Lee B. Spitzer

BWA Historian, author of Sympathy, Solidarity, and Silence (2022), Baptists, Jews and the Holocaust (2017), and Making Friends, Making Disciples (2010).

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"Journeying through 2025" - 65 photos from my journeys this year on Flickr, covering Manhattan, Brisbane, Old Sturbridge (MA) and Mount Vernon (VA). A real diversity of subjects. https://t.co/mF3CrXzFbX

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These vital works call us to live out our commitment to human dignity and religious freedom. Learn more about these books by Dr. Lee B. Spitzer, available on https://t.co/7mYtduQy69, and explore BWA resolutions on this important topic at https://t.co/flaJEb3BsX.

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BWA Historian Dr. Lee B. Spitzer examines how Baptists responded to Nazism and the Holocaust in his books Baptists, Jews, and the Holocaust and Sympathy, Solidarity, and Silence.

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As antisemitism continues to rise globally, remembering history is urgent. We grieve recent acts of violence targeting Jewish communities, including the recent attack at Bondi Beach in Australia.

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Fr. Zachary Swantek, Princeton University's Catholic chaplain, has written the following on behalf of the University's Catholic community to the University's Jewish community and its chaplains, Rabbi Eitan Webb of Chabad and Rabbi Gil Steinlauf of the Center for Jewish Life:

Dear Jewish Friends:

On behalf of the Catholic community at Princeton, I write to express to you, our beloved brothers and sisters of the Jewish faith, our deepest condolences as you mourn those who were heinously murdered during a Hanukkah observance at Bondi Beach in Australia. Please know that we stand in solidarity with you against antisemitic hatred and violence by anyone, anywhere, at any time. 

We, your Catholic friends, this year celebrate the 60th anniversary of the great document Nostra Aetate of the Second Vatican Council. Bearing in mind the history of antisemitic persecution, including by Christians, and indeed, sometimes even by those speaking and acting in the name of the Church, the fathers of the Council stated that: “The Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, and displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.”

That categorical and unequivocal teaching is much in our minds and hearts today as we extend to you our sympathy, our support, and our prayers. It is also much in our hearts and minds that what happened at Bondi Beach is not an isolated incident. It follows the horrific murders, rapes, and kidnappings of October 7, 2023 in Israel, when vicious terrorists attacked innocent men, women, and children for no reason other than that they were, or were presumed to be, Jewish. And it comes at a time of rising antisemitism throughout the world, including here in the United States.

It is entirely understandable that many in the Jewish community at this frightening moment are wondering who their friends are. You may be asking: Who will stand with us? Who will refuse to be complicit in antisemitism or to go silent in the face of it? We members of the Catholic community of Princeton stand with you. We pledge to resist antisemitism and speak out forcefully against it.

Please know that I spoke about this at the Sunday Masses on campus this weekend, and that our community prayed for the victims, for their families, and for the Jewish community here in Princeton and throughout the world.

In prayer,

Father Zack

Fr. Zachary Swantek
Doctor of Sacred Theology Chaplain 
Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life at Princeton University

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Words matter. Repeated calls to “globalize the intifada” predictably resulted in Jews, including a Holocaust survivor, being murdered in cold blood. We mourn with the victims’ families and the Australian Jewish community and applaud Ahmed al Ahmed, who heroically intervened.

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Statement from the General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance concerning the attack in Sydney, Australia on Hanukkah. I encourage all Baptists, Christians, and people of goodwill to share this message and/or express friendship with Jewish neighbors in your town/city/country.

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@ElijahMBrown @BaptistWorld Thank you for your message!

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Merry Christmas! https://t.co/4h4jJ4zt0I is offering a great sale on my BWA Resolutions Encyclopedia, "Good News for the Word: BWA Resolutions and Statements 1905-2023." 33% off!#BWA #Baptists #baptistworld
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Our friends at Baylor University, in partnership with the BWA are advertising for a the new position at Truett Seminary. Find out more here: https://t.co/ka5JPICWCG

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Last week's 'Friends of the Angus' Seminar with Lee Spitzer is now available on our YouTube channel if you were unable to attend on the night:
https://t.co/Xd661O5Tbs

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FOTA Seminar - 'Sharing Jesus with the World: 120 Years of Baptist World... https://t.co/6SPq3TM8mA via @YouTube #BaptistWorld

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An honor to present a lecture on the #BWA and the history/significance of its resolutions yesterday. Thanks to the Friends of the Angus, for this special opportunity! FOTA Seminar - 'Sharing Jesus with the World: 120 Years of Baptist World... https://t.co/6SPq3TLAx2 via @YouTube

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The Baptist World Alliance is looking for a Director of Communications and Media to help amplify stories of God’s work across the global Baptist family. Read more about the job specification and application details at https://t.co/LXoBqODDdb.

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Join in on the conversation! I've booked tickets for Friends of the Angus - Online Seminar 13th November 2025 at Online on Thursday 13th November 2025 https://t.co/figKIm7LeQ