Quick question about Judaism

I’m doing some maintenancey stuff around the house today, so I’m only checking in at large intervals. In the mean time, my wife had a question that I hoped somebody could answer and save me the Googling. Here it is:

“Why does Judaism treat Jesus as a teacher and not the Son of God?”

Hopefully it’s a quick answer for somebody familiar with the topic.

Have a good day, everybody.

[Updated to clean up the post]

Liberals, Conservatives, and the US response to the second Cold War

In the previous post I talked about the rapidly evolving balance of power in the world, where the unipolar world of the past 15 years is now turning into a world with a Western alliance and an Asian alliance. An interesting side issue is how this situation will be perceived by liberals and conservatives, once they are made aware of it.

The world power balance jockeying continues

As patient readers of this blog know, one of the topics often discussed here is the emergence of a second Cold War (readers not familiar with this topic can refer to the “Cold War II” category in the sidebar). In Cold War II, we have Russian and China cementing a less-and-less uneasy alliance against the US and the West. While you don’t hear this discussed by the MSM in the US, this topic is considered to be an obvious fact by writers for the Asia Times, though they don’t go so far as to call it a “Cold War.” Yet.

For those of you who think I exaggerate, today’s Asia Times Online has another article describing the power realignment that is going on behind the scenes. Here are some essential excerpts:

The fundamental configuration of the world order is rapidly undergoing transformation as US power and influence continue their progressive dilution in all spheres and those of rival centers or poles such as Russia and China are becoming ever more concentrated, thanks in no small measure to their advancing control over global strategic energy resources.
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…the Russia-China axis [that] is rapidly attracting around itself an array of many lesser but significant poles. As noted above, the two poles (Russia-China and America-Britain) each possess a gravitational pull that no others on the globe can lay claim to, and the main dividing line between the two poles has become control over strategic energy resources.