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December 20, 2001 Agoura's Chai Center gives Jewish kids a place to connect. By Wendy J. Madnick Share Kimia Ghiam turns to the Chai Center for a quiet space to do homework.They're celebrating the fourth night of Chanukah at the Chai Teen and Youth Center, and, to put it mildly, this joint is jumping. Nearly two dozen teenagers fill the huge recreation room, with its gaming tables lined up two by two, like the animals on Noah's Ark. Some kids play air hockey, others play video games,

Policy conference turns into church-like revival as organization seeks to highlight members’ diverse backgrounds By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil March 3, 2014, 12:23 pm 5 Chris Harris and members of his Bronzeville church singing 'Walk With Me,' at the AIPAC convention Sunday. (screen capture: AIPAC) WASHINGTON — Storm clouds gathered outside, and the phalanx of protesters who had chanted opposite the Washington, DC, Convention Center dissipated as the sun set, but inside the cavernous room where AI

* March 4, 2014    11:29AM    Sarah Posner The conservative evangelical men's group Promise Keepers, best known for its 1997 "Stand in the Gap" rally on Washington's National Mall in 1997, is planning a revival in Jerusalem this September, to bolster Israel's tiny community of Messianic Jews. Promise Keepers has long been aligned with Messianic Judaism, but this is the first time it has hosted an event in Israel. This new effort is explicit in celebrating the growth in numbers of Messianic Jew

By Gaby Wenig Share Members of Chabad of Greater Los Feliz sing and clap as they parade in Torah celebration."What on earth is that?" asks Jordan, a 27-year-old actor in Los Feliz. He is staring at a dancing rabbi on a flatbed truck that is inching its way down Vermont Avenue, one of the main boulevards in Los Feliz. Vermont has a certain bohemian air about it. Like Jordan, many of the people on the street -- and there are a good number of them lounging around in the outdoor cafes -- ar

Israel National News Reported News Brief3/10/2014, Adar Bet 8, 5774 The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court has rejected a claim by a missionary group, saying that the school they had been renting space in unlawfully voided their contract, and asking the court to instruct the school to pay NIS 108,000 in compensation and mental anguish, as well as legal expenses. It began when a missionary group, via a non-profit organization called "Mitzpe L'Yisrael", rented space at the Raziel school in Netanya to c

Rev. Kevin Parviz places ashes on his grandchildren Johnna Opheim 7 1/2 and infant Aubrey Smith during Ash Wednesday service on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at Congregation Chai v’Shalom in Dogtown To the right is his wife Colleen.The service combined both Christian and Jewish liturgy. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com In a small storefront in Dogtown, a St. Louis neighborhood known for its celebration of the Christian missionary St. Patrick, sits a congregation dedicated to conve

Today, I am shocked by the amount of money spent by Christian organizations to fund these groups and like Ira Michaelson, East Coast Outreach Coordinator at Jews for Judaism; I fear the tentacles of these groups. “We at Jews for Judaism are amazed at the apathy in the Jewish community, and the lack of concern for the missionary threat. People do not understand the agenda. Nobody knows their agenda better than me, as I was raised Orthodox, and went off the derech (WAY) and found myself among them

Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, recently shared the podium at New York’s West Side Lincoln Square Synagogue with Christian missionary Joel Rosenberg in an interfaith theological exchange sponsored by Ohr Torah Stone’s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC). The event was a coup for Rosenberg,  a bible prophecy novelist and founder of the Joshua Fund, who identifies himself as “an evangelical Christian from an Orthodox Jewish heritage”.  Rosenberg openly and