These are the types of activities that we specifically have a problem with. It is the deceptive practices of these groups that has to stop. Anti-assimilation NPO Yad L’Achim says it has received hundreds of complaints regarding missionaries taking advantage of the election campaign in Israel to try and convert Jews out of their religion. [Read More]
Hagee’s endgame is the endtimes; But what’s Bibi’s?
As the controversy over Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to both houses of Congress continues to swirl unabated, one of the key players in the fight shouldn’t go unnoticed. It’s televangelist John Hagee, senior pastor of the San Antonio-based Cornerstone megachurch, and leader of the 2 million-strong Christians United for Israel (CUFI). The pastor and [Read More]
Community Alert: Christian Evangelicals Offering Shabbat Retreat for Har Nof Orphans
The International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ) , whose core mission is to tell the world that jesus is coming back and to spread that word from Jerusalem, has launched a widely publicized online/email campaign to comfort and support the bereaved families of the Har Nof massacre. “This very weekend, the ICEJ is sponsoring a [Read More]
Messianic and Kiruv missionaries to rumble in Brooklyn
With one in four residents in the borough identifying as Jewish, competing religious institutions are setting up shop
With one in four residents in the borough identifying as Jewish, competing religious institutions are setting up shop
Christian Missionary Joel Rosenberg and Family Make Aliyah
“First, we are moving to Israel as a family. For the last several years, we have sensed God calling us to immigrate to the land of Israel (to “make Aliyah”) and follow the path of our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Based on my Jewish roots on my father’s side, the State of Israel has [Read More]
5 Surprising Facts About Judaism
Including you don’t need to be Jewish to get to Heaven.
1. We are meant to savor the pleasures of the world: The Jerusalem Talmud says that God will take us to task for not partaking in permissible pleasures of this world1. God didn’t put the delights of this world here to tease us. Enjoy that hot fudge sundae, but do it mindfully, like a connoisseur, [Read More]
Rabbi Riskin and Ohr Torah Stone Host Missionary Joel Rosenberg
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 [Read More]
Christ at the Checkpoint Conference 2014
After the flood there was a tower called Babel and… We can rest assured that when G-d makes a promise, G-d keeps it. The ills of confusion cast upon the world under Nimrod’s earthly authority remain to this day in ever-changing voices representing an ever-changing language: the Church. With over 33,000 Christian denominations in 238 [Read More]
True Judaism?
March 17th, 2014 – Diane Weber BedermanIn the late 70’s early 80’s an organization moved into a Toronto strip mall that had all the trappings of a Jewish organization. Seemed right. It was in a mall in a large Jewish area. It turned out it was Jews for Jesus. Little did I know how big [Read More]
Lutheran Ministry Seeks to Convert Jews
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.