jews for jesus
True Facts
Fact: 68% of teens and 85% of college students have been approached by someone who tried to share another religion with them (based on a recent survey of more than 2,000 Jewish students from all denominations) Fact: Missionaries have expanded their efforts to include a covert “peer-to-peer” proselytizing model that targets Jewish high school and college students. Fact: Missionary groups spend more than $250 million annually toward this effort. Jews for Jesus alone has an annual budget of $1
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Missionary Claims #1
Claim #1: Jews can retain their Jewish Identity once they convert In their attempt to convert Jews, missionaries claim that one can remain Jewish while practicing Christianity. The use of terminology such as "Messianic Jew," "Hebrew Christian," and "Jews for Jesus" is but a deceptive attempt to represent converted Jews as Jewish.1 In fact, missionaries even go so far as to claim that a Jew who accepts Jesus (or "Yeshua," as they call him) is a "completed Jew," implying of course that all other
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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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Is "Jews for Jesus" a cult?
What is a cult? The following is the MERRIAM-WEBSTER English Language Learners definition of a cult.: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous : a situation in which people admire and care about something or someone very much or too much : a small group of very devoted supporters or fans What is the difference between a religion and a cult? In Combatting Cult Mind Control, Steven Hass
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Are missionaries a problem in Israel?
Yes. An increasing number of Christian missionary groups - most of them based in the United States - have targeted the Israeli Jewish population for conversion, and "Jews for Jesus"-type churches now exist in every large Israeli population center. For more information about Judaism, explore our site www.jewsforjudaism.org For questions and clarifications, email us at ask@jewsforjudaism.org
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Gradjewate (Fast Facts:Jews for Jesus program)
As the Jewish community continues to lag behind in utilizing cyber-space and virtual marketing techniques, rest-assured the missionaries haven't! Recently launched, and making the rounds on the internet, "GRADJEWATE," is Jews for Jesus' most recent effort to reach Jewish youth for conversion. Where are they at? ON THE WEB, which is a powerful venue of identifying with and engaging Jewish teens and college students.
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Insult at Auschwitz
When thousands of Jews from around the world gathered recently in Warsaw and at Auschwitz to remember the Holocaust and pray for our dead, dozens of unwanted "guests" were praying alongside them offering their condolences, feeling their pain, and, while they're at it, suggesting that the only way for Jews to get over the Holocaust is to accept Jesus as their personal savior. In a remarkable fund-raising letter obtained by Jews for Judaism, Reverend Elwood McQuaid, head of a New Jersey-based mis
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