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I Was Attacked on Campus

I Was Attacked on Campus

The rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses are frightening and sometimes dangerous. I know this from personal experience because once when I had set up a Jewish information table on campus, a student started cursing me. His verbal attack turned anti-Semitic, and then he threw a punch at me. Fortunately, my years of self-defense training kicked in, and I was able to block the punch and hold the student down until the police arrived. Although some religions tea
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Evangelicals and Israel:

Evangelicals and Israel:

A Knight in Shining Armour or Trojan Horse? Rabbi Michael Skobac, Jews for Judaism’s Education Director, clarified the nature of the “double-edged sword” relationship the Jewish community has with the Christian right today. In a world that has grown increasingly hostile towards Jews and Israel, evangelical Christians have emerged as the solitary supportive group. This group, which represents 25-40% of the American population, and 10% in Canada, is itself a very diverse group. The PEW forum on
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Anti-Semitism: The Persecution of God and His Chosen People.

Anti-Semitism: The Persecution of God and His Chosen People.

Anti-Semitism:The Persecution of God and His Chosen People A Critical Book Review by Gerald Sigal Anti-Semitism: The Persecution of God and His Chosen People. By Steffi Rubin. San Rafael: Jews for Jesus, 1977. Duplicity and sanctimonious rhetoric have long been the staples of Christian missionaries who seek to convert Jews. This booklet, by Steffi Ruben, one of the original members of the Jews for Jesus organization, is no exception to Paul's aphorism on the use of deceit: "Whether in pretense
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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
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
Sheina's Story: An Academic Search for the Truth

Sheina's Story: An Academic Search for the Truth

My story begins on the other side of the world in Australia where I was born. Both sides of my family immigrated there in the mid to late 1800s. My childhood was spent in a Christian home. I did not know that I had a Jewish heritage until I was around age 13, at which time my mother told me of her family background and that she was Jewish. (She had embraced Christianity when she married my father.) For years it didn't impact my life greatly because I had no real understanding of what it meant to
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz