Posted by Ellen W. Horowitz
Clarification (June 25, 2008) Since this posting I have had some very good, thoughtful, sincere, and reflective correspondence with Jeremy. We discussed at length the statements in question, his intentions and direction, as well as any misunderstandings I may have had. We agreed that these are awesome times and that drawing proper red lines in our alliances with Christian friends is indeed a very difficult test for the Jewish people. Not only did Jeremy clear things up with me, but he and Ari Abramovitz are on the air on their A7 Wednesday radio show and regularly lay down the law – the Jewish law - in no uncertain terms. They are now aware of, and continue to address the serious missionary threat to our people. We are sharing information and coordinating efforts on a regular basis. A clarification was also posted on this issue at:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2008/04/jeremy-and-ari-draw-lines.html
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In 1964 Rabbi Joseph.B. Soloveitchik’s published position opposing interfaith dialogue - on a theological level - became widely accepted and recognized halacha.
http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/soloveitchik/
On May 18th 2006 the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) reaffirmed the need for continued adherance to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's guidelines regarding interfaith dialogue.
http://www.rabbis.org/news/article.cfm?id=100771
On June 25th 2007, the 9th of Tamuz , Rabbi Shlomo Riskin was the keynote speaker at a Chabad event commemorating The Rebbe, His life Teachings and Inspiration. He recounted the following:
"During my first encounter with the Rebbe in 1964 at 1 AM I felt the Rebbe's eyes scanning and reading me. The first thing he told me was that "you have a very special Rav, make sure to listen to what he says all the time."
http://www.shturem.net/index.php?section=news&id=16850&lang=hebrew
1 month later, on Tisha b’Av (July 24, 2007), Rabbi Riskin’s opinion piece, In praise of Christian-Jewish interfaith dialogue, was published in the Jerusalem Post - he overturned the psak of his Rav.
(Excerpt ) :
As a rabbi who entered the rabbinate in June 1963 with a strong bias against any inter-faith dialogue and cooperation, and who is now so passionate about the importance of inter-religious communication and study that I have established an Institute for the furtherance of Jewish - Christian Understanding in Efrat … After all, Christianity emerged from the matrix of Judaism, and the founder of Christianity was a Jewish teacher who - it would certainly appear from the Gospels - lived a Jewish life-style, replete with the Sabbath, festivals and kashrut. Hence there is every logical, historical and religious reason for there to be a rapprochement between us.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1184766054867&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
The results:
The International Center for Biblical Zionism is a project of Ohr Torah Stone and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the chief Rabbi of Efrat, and was founded by Jeremy Gimpel and Ari Abramowitz.
You can see and hear Jeremy Gimpel in a number of online lectures and interviews. I just looked at a few, and this is a sampling of the kind of stuff that really disturbs me:
Pastor Klein– a Jewish convert to Christianity – interviewed Jeremy on a “messianic” TV show last year. If you don’t have the time, patience, or stomach to watch the whole thing, then just view two minutes from 3.10-5.10. Jeremy mentions that he is training “missionaries” and “The Third Temple is not a Jewish Temple…”, and “Bible believing Jews and Bible believing Christians stand united in the word of G-d”
http://tzemach.org/weblog/?p=87
One problem, Jeremy… according to evangelicals, “a Bible-believing Jew” is a Jew who believes in Jesus, because according to Christians, “the Bible” is made up of the New as well as the Old Testament. No kidding. I checked with an ex-missionary on that one.
But the following is beyond the pale:
In a lecture at “messianic” Gates to Zion Ministries, Gimpel preaches the following:
(31:50) We are now returning to His word and not to doctrine. I don’t want to just hear what the teachings of our father's are, because very possibly we have inherited lies.
A new people is being formed, and it’s not the Jewish people anymore, it’s a new people. Many nations will join themselves to Hashem on that day and they will become a people unto me. A new people is being born today and it doesn’t matter if you’re Jewish or non-Jewish, that’s what’s so exciting. Because all of these labels that we put on ourselves, all of them, they are all coming down.
It doesn’t matter anymore what we label our selves – are we an Ephramite or a noahite, are we a two house or a this house – the question is do you believe in the word of G-d?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2980495431042168605
I don’t know what Rabbi Riskin is promoting, but in my humble opinion, it sure doesn't sound like Torah Judaism. He should have listened to his Rav, and the Rebbe.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Feminist Nightmare
My generation was told that women should take men's jobs and shun traditional women's roles. Now there are women in power, and you'd think I'd be happy.
Have a good week and good month (Jewish calendar)
Friday, April 4, 2008
A Different Kind of Response
One thing about the Israeli Left is that it's sure consistent. It will take any event and use it against their alleged enemies, and... I'm one of those they fear.
The Israeli Left started with the Labor Zionists who were rabidly anti-Jabotinsky/Revisionist. The true story of Alosorof's murder wasn't important to his friends. All that was important to them was that they could use it to attack the Revisionists.
When they began to fear that Menachem Begin would get too popular, they went back on their agreement with him about using the arms on the Altalena to rescue the Old City of Jerusalem and attacked the ship instead.
When it became obvious that Israel's population hadn't the foggiest notion who Alosorof was and didn't know much more about the Begin's Etzel and Stern's Lechi, Rabin was assassinated, and now whenever they want to galvanize their forces, they just say: "It reminds me of the hatred during the time before Rabin was killed."
Why am I wasting my valuable Friday afternoon on this? I just saw an interesting article in The New York Times which quotes Robert F. Kennedy's impromptu speech after hearing that Martin Luther King had just been murdered.
So different from how the Israeli Left, the politicians and media speak.
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
The Israeli Left started with the Labor Zionists who were rabidly anti-Jabotinsky/Revisionist. The true story of Alosorof's murder wasn't important to his friends. All that was important to them was that they could use it to attack the Revisionists.
When they began to fear that Menachem Begin would get too popular, they went back on their agreement with him about using the arms on the Altalena to rescue the Old City of Jerusalem and attacked the ship instead.
When it became obvious that Israel's population hadn't the foggiest notion who Alosorof was and didn't know much more about the Begin's Etzel and Stern's Lechi, Rabin was assassinated, and now whenever they want to galvanize their forces, they just say: "It reminds me of the hatred during the time before Rabin was killed."
Why am I wasting my valuable Friday afternoon on this? I just saw an interesting article in The New York Times which quotes Robert F. Kennedy's impromptu speech after hearing that Martin Luther King had just been murdered.
"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."
So different from how the Israeli Left, the politicians and media speak.
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
Try Not To Gag
It's important to know what the enemy is saying; otherwise I wouldn't bother with this speech by Shimon Peres.
It's in Hebrew, but it has subtitles.
Thanks to nc who posted it to me!
Oy Gevalt, Kitniyot
It's rather ironic that even though the various Eidot Mizrach/Sfardi communities have a great variety of customs concerning Kitniyot, they don't obsess about it like Ashkenaz Jews. Simply stated, kitniyot are legumes, frequently grown and stored near grains. That's the historic rationale behind their being forbidden on Pesach by Ashkenaz Jews.
Many of us Ashkenazim have been taught that we should relate to kitniyot like "traif." Traif is actually less severe than chametz, since there's no battel b'shishim (doesn't count if under 1/60) when it comes to chametz. Actually, the kitniyot business is not as serious as gebracht, which supposes that there may be some uncooked flour in the matzah, so you can't get your matzah or matzah meal wet. I don't think there are any Sfardim which go for that psak. It's against their nature to obsess so hysterically about halachah; though in another generation we may see more of it. That's because of all the "intermarriage" between the various Jewish communities and Sfardim who study in Ashkenaz and Chassidishe yeshivot.
Many Ashkenaz women who marry Sfard men are disappointed to discover that they can't eat "everything." There are a surprising amount of differences from community to community. Some do eat "everything" in terms of kitniyot, but many don't eat any of the dry kitniyot, only the fresh green beans and the oils.
That's one of the reasons I wouldn't feel comfortable about having our Ashkenaz custom cancelled. There is no halachik-minhag unity among the Sfardim either.
In our home, our now Tunisian daughter cooks rice on Pesach for her family, and neighbors, who are halachikly Sfardim cook without kitniyot, because the vast majority of their guests are strict Ashkenazim.
Here are some links from Machon Shilo (no relation to my home town) about the issue:
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
Many of us Ashkenazim have been taught that we should relate to kitniyot like "traif." Traif is actually less severe than chametz, since there's no battel b'shishim (doesn't count if under 1/60) when it comes to chametz. Actually, the kitniyot business is not as serious as gebracht, which supposes that there may be some uncooked flour in the matzah, so you can't get your matzah or matzah meal wet. I don't think there are any Sfardim which go for that psak. It's against their nature to obsess so hysterically about halachah; though in another generation we may see more of it. That's because of all the "intermarriage" between the various Jewish communities and Sfardim who study in Ashkenaz and Chassidishe yeshivot.
Many Ashkenaz women who marry Sfard men are disappointed to discover that they can't eat "everything." There are a surprising amount of differences from community to community. Some do eat "everything" in terms of kitniyot, but many don't eat any of the dry kitniyot, only the fresh green beans and the oils.
That's one of the reasons I wouldn't feel comfortable about having our Ashkenaz custom cancelled. There is no halachik-minhag unity among the Sfardim either.
In our home, our now Tunisian daughter cooks rice on Pesach for her family, and neighbors, who are halachikly Sfardim cook without kitniyot, because the vast majority of their guests are strict Ashkenazim.
Here are some links from Machon Shilo (no relation to my home town) about the issue:
The Minhag of Qitniyoth: Anatomy of an Error
Qitniyoth Rebellion Revisited
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
New Lives--Post Disengagement
This was sent to me. The author requests to remain anonymous.
I read your latest blog.
Here's an idea for a blog: Contrast what the expellees from the Northern Shomron are doing with what the expellees from Gush Katif are doing. Most of the expellees from the Northern Shomron are either in a more southern region of the Shomron or are in Darom Har Hevron. I think that most of them moved to settlements in groups, which is what I think that the expellees from Gush Katif should have done, and actually still could. Doesn't "The Katif neighborhood of Karnei Shomron" sound nice? How about "The Neve Dekalim neighborhood of Elkana"? The neighborhood could even include a small building for private meetings/events. (The plans for the "permanent" settlement of Nitzan are similar to this. Each settlement has its own area.) There are many settlements in Yosh that are not far from the "Green Line" and therefore do not involve passing through areas heavily populated by Arabs. After all of the mortars and other terror many from Gush Katif are not interested in dealing with the Arabs again. As for the threat of a second expulsion, what's worse, the threat of expulsion or definitely rotting in a rotting caravilla that costs a fortune to heat or cool?
It's still my hope that as the "permanent" settlements in Lachish, Nitzan etc. seem farther and farther away more expellees will join the ones who have moved to Yosh. People want to stay together, and I can understand that.
Moving to Yosh does not mean breaking up communities! Moving as a group may be difficult, but what's to stop 20 families from moving one by one to a particular settlement?
Concerning the idea of recreating Gush Katif in Gush Lachish (no, I didn't coin that), I think that people thought that the new settlements in Lachish would be built at a reasonable pace and that there was some settlement value in blocking the spread of Bedouin villages. Also a few of the planned settlements are extremely close to the "Green Line" and are considered to be helping settlements close by on the other side of the "Green Line" by increasing Jewish presence in the area. For years the government had plans for settling Lachish and the only reason why they're dragging their feet now is to make life miserable for the expellees. Perhaps the"leaders" did not realize that Sharon, Olmert, Bassi and others are nothing like Begin. Begin, though wrong in destroying Yamit, did not have an independent goal of crushing the expellees as much as possible. For the amount of money that the Sharon government wasted on caravilla sites and hotels, permanent houses could have been built.
What do the Jews and Arabs of the Gaza Strip have in common?
Their leaders want them stuck in refugee camps.
I read your latest blog.
Here's an idea for a blog: Contrast what the expellees from the Northern Shomron are doing with what the expellees from Gush Katif are doing. Most of the expellees from the Northern Shomron are either in a more southern region of the Shomron or are in Darom Har Hevron. I think that most of them moved to settlements in groups, which is what I think that the expellees from Gush Katif should have done, and actually still could. Doesn't "The Katif neighborhood of Karnei Shomron" sound nice? How about "The Neve Dekalim neighborhood of Elkana"? The neighborhood could even include a small building for private meetings/events. (The plans for the "permanent" settlement of Nitzan are similar to this. Each settlement has its own area.) There are many settlements in Yosh that are not far from the "Green Line" and therefore do not involve passing through areas heavily populated by Arabs. After all of the mortars and other terror many from Gush Katif are not interested in dealing with the Arabs again. As for the threat of a second expulsion, what's worse, the threat of expulsion or definitely rotting in a rotting caravilla that costs a fortune to heat or cool?
It's still my hope that as the "permanent" settlements in Lachish, Nitzan etc. seem farther and farther away more expellees will join the ones who have moved to Yosh. People want to stay together, and I can understand that.
Moving to Yosh does not mean breaking up communities! Moving as a group may be difficult, but what's to stop 20 families from moving one by one to a particular settlement?
Concerning the idea of recreating Gush Katif in Gush Lachish (no, I didn't coin that), I think that people thought that the new settlements in Lachish would be built at a reasonable pace and that there was some settlement value in blocking the spread of Bedouin villages. Also a few of the planned settlements are extremely close to the "Green Line" and are considered to be helping settlements close by on the other side of the "Green Line" by increasing Jewish presence in the area. For years the government had plans for settling Lachish and the only reason why they're dragging their feet now is to make life miserable for the expellees. Perhaps the"leaders" did not realize that Sharon, Olmert, Bassi and others are nothing like Begin. Begin, though wrong in destroying Yamit, did not have an independent goal of crushing the expellees as much as possible. For the amount of money that the Sharon government wasted on caravilla sites and hotels, permanent houses could have been built.
What do the Jews and Arabs of the Gaza Strip have in common?
Their leaders want them stuck in refugee camps.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
In The Spirit of Chana
A few minutes ago, I had a phone call asking me to participate in a poll. I agreed and began listening to the questions and choosing answers from those offered. With each question, I became more and more concerned. It seemed like one of those polls for the Left, for those fronts for groups which want to prove that we're a bunch of prostitutes--for money we'd leave our homes.
Well, I told the girl on the phone, that I've probably been living in Shiloh since long before she was born, and I find her questions offensive. Yes, I told her that I know that she's just doing her job, what she gets paid to do. I know that she didn't write the questions and the choice of answers.
But I could hear the direction the questions were going.
They started out rather innocuously.
The questions began getting even worse, and I told her:
We have returned to pray to G-d at Shiloh. Each of us mouths our words to G-d, like Chana did thousands of years ago. G-d is waiting to hear our prayers. Chazal, our sages, say that Chana was originally infertile, because G-d wanted her prayers to be exceptionally strong.
Today our People and and Land are suffering greatly. We need a true leader with strength of character and a goal and vision of a strong Jewish Nation in our Holy Land.
Please join us in Shiloh on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the Month of Miracles, at 10am.
Well, I told the girl on the phone, that I've probably been living in Shiloh since long before she was born, and I find her questions offensive. Yes, I told her that I know that she's just doing her job, what she gets paid to do. I know that she didn't write the questions and the choice of answers.
But I could hear the direction the questions were going.
They started out rather innocuously.
"How would you describe your life in your community?"
excellent
good
passable
bad
"Why did you move to there?"
financial incentives
ideology
and more choces like that
"How do you see your community five years from now?"
destroyed
moved to Israel
moved to another part of "the territories" under "Palestinian" rule
no change
The questions began getting even worse, and I told her:
"I refuse to continue. I know exactly what this survey is for and where it's leading. I find it highly offensive. If I was living in Shiloh, Ohio or Shiloh, Tennessee, nobody would dare ask me such questions or ask me to leave my home."
I told her that I've lived here a long time, and this is the original Shiloh, and I have no plans nor desire to leave.
Yes, this is the Shiloh of the Bible.
This is the Shiloh where Joshua established the capital of the Hebrew tribes after the Exodus from Egypt and the 40 Years of Wandering.
This is the Shiloh where the Tabernacle stood for 369 years.
This is the Shiloh where Chana prayed for a son who would dedicate his life to the Jewish People. And this is the Shiloh where Chana stood up to Eli who accused her of drunkenness, when she prayed silently and sincerely to G-d.
We have returned to pray to G-d at Shiloh. Each of us mouths our words to G-d, like Chana did thousands of years ago. G-d is waiting to hear our prayers. Chazal, our sages, say that Chana was originally infertile, because G-d wanted her prayers to be exceptionally strong.
Today our People and and Land are suffering greatly. We need a true leader with strength of character and a goal and vision of a strong Jewish Nation in our Holy Land.
Please join us in Shiloh on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the Month of Miracles, at 10am.
Frum Boxer
Is this the job for a nice Jewish boy?
Apparently, it is. And this young boxer is studying to be an Orthodox Rabbi.
Yuri Foreman has been around. He was born in the former USSR, then made aliyah to Israel and then yiridah to New York.
I hope he takes care of himself and doesn't suffer brain damage, an occupational hazard for boxers.
Facing the Dangers on Facebook
I'm not into Facebook, Myspace etc. It's enough for me to blog here, there and wherever. But I fully support the young David, who is trying to rid Facebook of anti-Israel groups.
If you "do" Facebook, then please join him.
Where do I begin…Rabbi Riskin?
Posted by Ellen W. Horowitz
Christian and Jewish leaders are going celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday at a Jerusalem Prayer Banquet on May 15th. The venue of the event … THE UNITED NATIONS!!
Rabbi Riskin, Pastor Hagee, and Israeli Ambassador Assaf Shariv will be among the speakers.
http://www.jerusalemprayerbanquet.com/eventinfo.aspx
“Evangelical Christians and Jewish people will stand together, declaring a God of love, not hatred, and calling for peace, not violence,” said Rabbi Riskin, who recently launched the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Israel.
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve11010
Allow me to throw in a word by Pastor Hagee so we understand the significance of this happening:
“The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty. The battle for Jerusalem has already begun. That war will affect every nation on Earth, including America, and will affect every person on Planet Earth."
http://www.strangdirect.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17088
Wow! The Jewish man of peace, and the Christian man of war, coming together as brothers to pray at the UN. It’s like a Yaakov-Esau reconciliation of sorts. How Messianic!!
Most major poskim (recognized rabbinic authorities on the Jewish Law) do not participate in Jewish-Christian prayer events. Rabbi Riskin - one of a very few exceptions to the rule - seems to have overturned his own Rav’s psak on this issue. But I’ll leave that one alone for a moment (I guess it’s between Rabbi Riskin and The Lonely Man of Faith, Rav Yoseph B. Soloveichik, z”l), and move on to matters I can better understand.
The article about the prayer banquet at http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve11010
mentions that Stephen Strang of Charisma Magazine will be a participant. Heads up, Rabbi Riskin, as Strang is a signatory on the recent World Evangelical Alliance statement which supports continued evangelical efforts to convert the Jews, and defends the “messianic”/Hebrew Christian movement.
http://www.worldevangelicals.org/news/view.htm?id=1732
I blogged about the WEA statement and the ADL response earlier this week
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2008/03/bad-news-about-good-news.html
But it gets worse, as Jay Sekulaw, Chief Counsel for Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), is also scheduled to be at the event.
Sekulow, 48, who was raised Jewish but converted to Christianity … now considers himself a "Messianic Jew,"
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/photoessay/23.html
Christian pseudo-Jews like lawyers Calev Myers (http://jij.org.il) and Jay Sekulaw are in the forefront of the battle for "religious freedom" in Israel - which basically boils down to efforts to shoot down our attempts at passing anti-missionary legislation, while promoting their agenda of protecting the right of Christians to spread the gospel and convert Jews.
Take it from Jay, “There are many messianic Jews in Israel right now who are sharing the gospel, and are part of the military, serving with the Israeli Defense Force.”
http://www.aclj.org/Issues/FAQs/Question.aspx?ID=173
A Judeo-Christian prayer banquet at the UN is not the only thing Jay Sekulaw and Rabbi Riskin will have in common. Jay’s brother is a “rabbi”…
“We were warmly received by the people of Israel,” said Rabbi Scott Sekulow, who heads up Israel’s Harvest Ministry – an Atlanta-based Messianic ministry that shares the message of Yeshua (Jesus) with Jews.
http://www.israelsharvest.com/Mission%20Trip%20to%20Israel.htm
Seems to me that Rabbi Riskin’s interfaith venture with the evangelical Christian community is more than a risky business, and puts the people of Israel in spiritual jeopardy.
Christian and Jewish leaders are going celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday at a Jerusalem Prayer Banquet on May 15th. The venue of the event … THE UNITED NATIONS!!
Rabbi Riskin, Pastor Hagee, and Israeli Ambassador Assaf Shariv will be among the speakers.
http://www.jerusalemprayerbanquet.com/eventinfo.aspx
“Evangelical Christians and Jewish people will stand together, declaring a God of love, not hatred, and calling for peace, not violence,” said Rabbi Riskin, who recently launched the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Israel.
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve11010
Allow me to throw in a word by Pastor Hagee so we understand the significance of this happening:
“The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty. The battle for Jerusalem has already begun. That war will affect every nation on Earth, including America, and will affect every person on Planet Earth."
http://www.strangdirect.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17088
Wow! The Jewish man of peace, and the Christian man of war, coming together as brothers to pray at the UN. It’s like a Yaakov-Esau reconciliation of sorts. How Messianic!!
Most major poskim (recognized rabbinic authorities on the Jewish Law) do not participate in Jewish-Christian prayer events. Rabbi Riskin - one of a very few exceptions to the rule - seems to have overturned his own Rav’s psak on this issue. But I’ll leave that one alone for a moment (I guess it’s between Rabbi Riskin and The Lonely Man of Faith, Rav Yoseph B. Soloveichik, z”l), and move on to matters I can better understand.
The article about the prayer banquet at http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve11010
mentions that Stephen Strang of Charisma Magazine will be a participant. Heads up, Rabbi Riskin, as Strang is a signatory on the recent World Evangelical Alliance statement which supports continued evangelical efforts to convert the Jews, and defends the “messianic”/Hebrew Christian movement.
http://www.worldevangelicals.org/news/view.htm?id=1732
I blogged about the WEA statement and the ADL response earlier this week
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2008/03/bad-news-about-good-news.html
But it gets worse, as Jay Sekulaw, Chief Counsel for Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), is also scheduled to be at the event.
Sekulow, 48, who was raised Jewish but converted to Christianity … now considers himself a "Messianic Jew,"
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/photoessay/23.html
Christian pseudo-Jews like lawyers Calev Myers (http://jij.org.il) and Jay Sekulaw are in the forefront of the battle for "religious freedom" in Israel - which basically boils down to efforts to shoot down our attempts at passing anti-missionary legislation, while promoting their agenda of protecting the right of Christians to spread the gospel and convert Jews.
Take it from Jay, “There are many messianic Jews in Israel right now who are sharing the gospel, and are part of the military, serving with the Israeli Defense Force.”
http://www.aclj.org/Issues/FAQs/Question.aspx?ID=173
A Judeo-Christian prayer banquet at the UN is not the only thing Jay Sekulaw and Rabbi Riskin will have in common. Jay’s brother is a “rabbi”…
“We were warmly received by the people of Israel,” said Rabbi Scott Sekulow, who heads up Israel’s Harvest Ministry – an Atlanta-based Messianic ministry that shares the message of Yeshua (Jesus) with Jews.
http://www.israelsharvest.com/Mission%20Trip%20to%20Israel.htm
Seems to me that Rabbi Riskin’s interfaith venture with the evangelical Christian community is more than a risky business, and puts the people of Israel in spiritual jeopardy.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Don't Worry!
Can't post, since our screen broke. It's over ten years old and we got it third hand. I'm at work now.
Just keep reading and commenting!
As long as we're healthy..
Just keep reading and commenting!
As long as we're healthy..
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