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Messianic and Kiruv missionaries to rumble in Brooklyn

Messianic and Kiruv missionaries to rumble in Brooklyn

NEW YORK — A mezuzah hangs on the doorframe of a certain three-story gray building in Midwood, a heavily Orthodox section of Brooklyn. The structure is neither a synagogue, nor a traditional Jewish center. This mezuzah is affixed to the newly opened headquarters of the Chosen People’s Ministry, a missionary organization that persuades Jews to accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Chosen People purchased and renovated a former Jewish funeral home and renamed it the Brooklyn Messianic Center and t
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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
Is The Christian Movement Called "Messianic Judaism" a Form of Judaism?

Is The Christian Movement Called "Messianic Judaism" a Form of Judaism?

Is the Christian movement that goes by the name "Messianic Judaism" a form of Judaism? In essence, so-called "Messianic Jewish" groups claim that they represent a "completed form of Judaism" or "completed form of Jewishness" or "Biblical Judaism." In actuality, self-styled "Messianic Judaism" is a form of Christianity that mimics rabbinic Judaism. The question of whether such groups are Christian cults is a Christian problem. Is it a Messianic Judaism cult? Are Judaism and Christianity the sam
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Alex's Story

Alex's Story

My parents and I immigrated to the United States from the former USSR. We were raised as atheists but I did receive some training in Judaism by attending the local Jewish community center, and a Jewish summer camp. These really didn't do too much for me. I knew that I was Jewish, but I didn't know what that meant. At age eighteen, while attending college, I started asking myself questions like, "What makes me a Jew? Is it that I was born to Jewish parents? Do I need to live a Jewish life?" I de
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Nose-to-Nose in Toronto

Nose-to-Nose in Toronto

Until the sign appeared, none of the people at the butcher shop, or the kosher pizza parlor knew who the new tenant in the Main Exchange Mall in suburban Toronto was going to be. It caught the local director of headquarters of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth completely by surprise. But when the 30 foot sign, reading "City of David Messianic Synagogue" was installed, there was no question in anyone's mind - the missionaries had moved into one of Canada's most Jewish neighborhoods. Aet
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Avoiding Spiritual Deception

Avoiding Spiritual Deception

Today's spiritual consumer encounters a tremendous range of choices and opportunities. A walk down the "Judaism" aisle also reveals a plethora of styles and approaches. Not all options, however, are necessarily wholesome. Therefore, the old watchword, caveat emptor, let the buyer beware, is sound guidance. Interfaith families face unique challenges when it comes to making spiritual choices. Unscrupulous missionary organizations, capitalizing on a possible impulse to blend, offer the illusory pr
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Targeting Israeli Jews: Some Key Players

Targeting Israeli Jews: Some Key Players

Deceptive missionary efforts in Israel take a number of creative and ever-changing forms.  The following are but a sampling of what is taking place in the Jewish Holy Land, a land that has become the new "Ground Zero" for the Jewish-targeting, international missionary community. Revive Israel Ministries, headed by Keith ("Asher") Intrater, is an organization that provides financial and logistical support to conversionary efforts throughout Israel, and operates a "Messianic Jewish" conversionary
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz