Was the Airplane Terrorist Brainwashed?

Was the Airplane Terrorist Brainwashed?

Last week’s failed terrorist plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight has police and airline personnel beefing up security, and 5s wondering how this could happen. Umar Mutallab, the 23-year-old Nigeria born terrorist, was subdued by other passengers while trying to ignite an explosive device attached to his body. To many, Umar’s youthful appearance, fluent English and education made him an unlikely terrorist suspect. Michael Rimmer, a Briton who taught history at the British International
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and the Berlin Document Targeting Jews

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and the Berlin Document Targeting Jews

This past  August, an international task force of Christians and "Messianic Jews" a.k.a. Hebrew Christians, met for a four-day conference in Berlin Germany to discuss "The Uniqueness of Christ and Jewish Evangelism in Europe Today." Participants drafted and adopted what is currently being called "The Berlin Declaration," which calls for the renewed proselytizing of Jews in Germany and throughout Europe, as an act of "genuine and authentic love" for the Jewish people. ost noteworthy, was the un
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Taglit screening out Messianic Jews

Taglit screening out Messianic Jews

Taglit screening out Messianic Jews By Matthew Wagner "Certain acts separate individuals from parameters of Jewishness." Taglit screening out Messianic Jews By Taglit-birthright Trip organizers for Birthright have begun screening American candidates interested in free trips to Israel to prevent Messianic Jews from participating. A questionnaire of a Birthright (Taglit) trip organizer that was obtained by The Jerusalem Post includes a question regarding applicants' religious faith. Under a cat
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
How to reply when the doorbell rings

How to reply when the doorbell rings

How to reply when the doorbell rings Jul. 2, 2008 Emanuel Feldman , THE JERUSALEM POST Many years ago, while a rabbi in Atlanta, I answered a knock on my door one Shabbat afternoon. Standing in front of me was a fine-looking couple - obviously non-Jewish. "Shabbat Shalom, rabbi," they said, and asked to have a word with me. I sensed that they were missionaries and asked them what the subject was. They replied that they wanted to talk to me about the "Son of God." I suggested that while I re
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Cozying up to prospective converts

Cozying up to prospective converts

By: Barry Yeoman Published:  11/15/2007 From JTA: Full Article on JTA FAIRFAX, Va. (JTA) -- The smell of fried latkes permeates Darrin and Sharon Speck’s two-story townhouse in this Washington suburb. It’s the second night of Chanukah, and the couple have gathered some friends and neighbors to celebrate. Three-dimensional Stars of David dangle over the entrance to a living room scattered with chocolate gelt. Small children, including two of their own, crawl around and babble. The only incon
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Evangelical movement on the rise

Evangelical movement on the rise

Published:  11/15/2007 From JTA: Full Article on JTA NEW YORK (JTA) -- An arctic blast has emptied the streets of the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, yet inside the Living Springs Family Center, a storefront Pentecostal church with stamped-tin ceilings, the space heaters are cranked up. So is the music, an upbeat gospel heavy on guitar and electric keyboard. Thirty Caribbean immigrants belting out Psalm 113 lift and lower their arms to suggest the cycle of the day: “From the rising of
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Messianics are praying the 'Shema,'

Messianics are praying the 'Shema,'

By Barry Yeoman Published: 11/15/2007 From JTA: http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071115evangtwo.html CARY, N.C. (JTA) -- The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of children have gathered in a sanctuary adorned with seven-branched menorahs and an Israeli flag. Many of the men wear yarmulkes and tallitot; the women are dressy but no
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Messianic groups fly under Valley's Radar

Messianic groups fly under Valley's Radar

BETH SHAPIRO Staff Writer, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix http://www.jewishaz.com/issues... While driving along Valley streets, you might do a double take when you notice a sidewalk sign advertising Shabbat services on Saturday mornings at congregations called Beth Simchat Hamashiach, Baruch HaShem or Beth Yachad. The names may sound authentically Jewish, but if you listen closely, you will hear a different tune. They are members of the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Sy
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz