The Community Prevention and Response Program

The Community Prevention and Response Program

• A new "synagogue" has just opened across from the JCC and
  its first program is "the Messiah in the Passover"...
• The local church is holding a concert featuring a group called Kol Yerushalalayim..
• The local newspaper runs an article on Chanukah and quotes a "rabbi" extensively. Only he's not a rabbi, he's not even Jewish...
• Some students are hanging around the Hillel, they look Jewish, they talk Jewish but they keep inviting the students to their church ...
• The annual Jewish festival is in full swing and a group of people in T-shirts with "Jesus Made Me Kosher" on them are handing out pamphlets in Russian, Hebrew and English...

How should your community respond?

If you ignore them, will they go away?

If you talk about them, will you give them more publicity?

Jews for Judaism's Community Prevention and Response(CPR) Program has been developed to effectively alert your community to and safeguard it from the growing threat of deceptive missionaries. Our experienced staff works with your community's professional and lay leaders utilizing seminars, working groups, text studies and professional training sessions to prepare a cadre of people to successfully counter the missionary agenda.

Special curricular and response materials have been created to help inform and innoculate community members to enable them to respond to missionary tactics when they are confronted.

Among the counter-missionary materials included are press packets, suggested community legal guidelines and a series of articles and brochures.

Jews for Judaism, the only full-time international counter-missionary and counter-cult organization working in the Jewish community, has over 20 years of experience in communal and individual response to the threat posed by deceptive missionary and cult groups.

The CPR program can include some, or all, of the following components depending on community needs and length of programming
stay:

Open Community Town Meetings
Professional Response Training
Afternoon Hebrew School or Day School Study Days
Teen Town Meetings

Special Sessions with Jewish Communal Workers & Lay Leaders

Youth Professionals
Jewish Family Services
Federation Agency Heads
Board of Jewish Education
Community Educators
Principals Councils
Rabbinical Organizations
Resettlement
Homes for the Aged
Community Relations Staff

Counter-Missionary Seminar
Full-Day Crash Course

The Community Prevention & Response Program Sample Schedule

Sunday
Counter-Missionary Seminar
Full-Day Crash Course
9 am-5 pm with lunch
Community Town Meeting

Monday
Jewish Family Services
Youth Professionals
Community Educators
Principals Councils

Tuesday
Rabbinic Working Lunch
Federation Agency Heads
Community Relations Staff
Evening Teen Town Meeting

Wednesday
Day School Study Day
Community Lay Leader Working Dinner

Thursday
Resettlement
Homes for the Aged
Presentations to staff and targeted populations
Counseling sessions and special presentations scheduled as per community requests.

Community Praise for Jews for Judaism's Programs

"...I find Jews for Judaism to be so important an organization, and so fundamentally, one deserving of our aid and backing... That's why we hope that (G-d) should (support their work), that in truth they can bring back more and more of our (fellow Jews) who have been (lost)···"
Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, Rosh HaYeshiva (ZTZ"L)
Ner Israel Rabbinical College

"...I write to express deepfelt gratitude...
thank you for sharing your time and talents..."
Rabbi Alexander Schindler. Former President Union of American Hebrew Congregations

"...thank you for the outstanding, thought provoking, educational programs that you presented ... I hope that ... Jews for Judaism will continue to be successful through your educational programs, in combating the groups that threaten us..."
Arlynne Bochnek, Regional Director
Central Region - United Synagogue Youth

... we certainly appreciate the expertise and insights you brought ... Jews for Judaism has definitely left a lasting impact on the Jewish community of Dallas..."
Larry S. Robbins, Director
Jewish Community Relations Council, Dallas, TX

To discuss or schedule a CPR program in your community, please contact one of the Jews for Judaism offices today.