Zalman Kravitz

As the controversy over Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to both houses of Congress continues to swirl unabated, one of the key players in the fight shouldn’t go unnoticed.  It’s televangelist John Hagee, senior pastor of the San Antonio-based Cornerstone megachurch, and leader of the 2 million-strong Christians United for Israel (CUFI).  The pastor and his minions are in Bibi’s corner, and they’ve been busy.  The question is: What are they really up to? Read More: http://www.jewishjou

These are the types of activities that we specifically have a problem with. It is the deceptive practices of these groups that has to stop. Anti-assimilation NPO Yad L'Achim says it has received hundreds of complaints regarding missionaries taking advantage of the election campaign in Israel to try and convert Jews out of their religion. Cult members from abroad – including those belonging to J's Witnesses and Messianic Jews – have arrived in Israel to distribute missionary material in the guise

On February 22nd Jeremy Gimpel an educator, radio host, and Deputy Director of the World Mizrachi Movement was the featured speaker at an event in Nashville sponsored by HaYovel, a ministry founded by Tommy Waller.   Hayovel brings hundreds of messianic and fundamentalist Christian volunteers to work with farmers, especially vintners, in Judea and Samaria. Since 2009JewishIsrael has been monitoring the Waller family's extensive network of missionary collaborationsand associations. JewishIsrael h

Q. With Israel in the news so much, and Yom Ha'atzmaut (67th Anniversary of the Creation of Modern Israel) being celebrated this week, how DO we know that the Land of Israel truly is the Jewish people's homeland?A) Eretz Yisroel, the Land of Israel, is the Jewish homeland promised to us by G-d, and testified to throughout the Torah and Prophets/Hebrew Scriptures. His covenant was first stated in Sefer Bereshit, the Book of Genesis, Ch 15: 18-21, when G-d says to Abram (still known as Abram, not

Nearly one year after Jews for Jesus launched one of its most successful and controversial evangelism campaigns, more than 1.3 million people worldwide have watched That Jew Died for You. The three-minute YouTube video depicts Jesus carrying the cross to a gas chamber. The film’s goal was to “reshape views of Jesus and his relationship to the Holocaust.” Pegged to Yom HaShoah, a day when Israel remembers the Holocaust (held the evening of April 15 this year), many Jews called it the “most taste

From Arutz Sheva Following a large-scale baptism ceremony in Raanana this past Sabbath, missionaries are now set to hold a major event in Jerusalem on the upcoming Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) holiday. The event will be a four-day extravaganza in the newly-built Orna Hall in the Malha complex in southern Jerusalem. The giant hall seats 11,600 spectators, and the convention will be open to the public, free of charge. The theme of the event: How to improve the dissemination of the missionary message a

This fall, Jews for Judaism’s SMARTalks initiative was launched on the USC campus. The pilot event was a tremendous success, drawing more than 100 students and community leaders. Four renowned experts — publisher and columnist David Suissa, community activist Julie Bram, screenwriter David N. Weiss, and marketing and branding guru Sasha Strauss — gave concise presentations that tied-in their life experience with the importance of critical thinking. USC Hillel director Bailey London  closed the