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Warning Issued Against Yuletide Missionaries
By RABBI JACK
GOLDMAN
The coincidence of
Hanuka with the Christmas
season brings on the annual
assault of the soft-sell
Christian missionaries who
flood the marketing areas,
especially in Jewish
neighborhoods, with all
kinds of mollified appeals to
the Jewish community to
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become "complete" Jews
and embrace the Christian
Messiah.
Only this week, smiling
young men and women were
seen cruising in Northland,
distributing colorful
brochures suggesting that
"Christmas is a Jewish
holiday (or at least it should
be)." These pamphlets show
a Christmas tree, topped off
with a star of David.
The youthful purveyors of
this treacherous material
often wear yarmulkes and
T-shirts which bear the
legend "Jews for Jesus."
The mastermind be-
hind this missionary zeal
is a Jewish apostate
(meshumad) named
Moishe Rosen, a mea-
gerly educated European
Jew who founded Jews
for Jesus in 1970. Actu-
ally, this group is an
offshoot of the American
Board of Missions to the
Jews, founded in 1894,
and now operating more
than 30 missions
throughout the world.
Operating on an annual
budget of some $60 million,
these groups are supported
by a wide variety of fun-
damentalist Protestant
churches.
The volunteer workers for
these organizations are
young people of college age
who are carefully trained to
ensnare the often-confused,
frequently insecure Jewish
college youth, on campuses
around the country. Their
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success depends on the
ignorance of young Jews
concerning their own faith.
Because they know that
the forced conversion, or the
spreading of the Gospel by
accusation and intimida-
tion often results in nega-
tive reactions, the mis-
sionaries avoid that ap-
proach entirely. Instead,
they preach that you don't
have to change your faith,
you don't have to abandon
the traditions of your
fathers; all you have to do is
add Christ to your Jewish-
ness: as a result you become
more Jewish!
They extoll the Hebrew
Christian as the complete
Jew, par exellence. "Be a
Jew," they say. "Come,
we'll even help you celeb-
rate Hanuka . . . with a
Christmas tree!"
These missionaries avoid
the use of certain terms that
would clearly identify them
for what they are. They do
not refer to Jesus Christ. In-
stead, they talk about
"Yeshua Hamashiach." You
will not hear them mention
the terms "Trinity,"
"Savior," or "Cross." Their
literature is full of menoras,
Stars of David, Torah scrolls
and pictures of old venera-
ble Jews, bent over their
holy books.
More recently, when Is-
rael suffered from a bad
press resulting from the
massacres in Lebanon, they
became champions of Israel.
"We love Menahem Begin!"
was their theme song, and
their zeal expressed strong
support for the spread of
Jewish settlements in
Judea and Samaria.
They love Israel, its gov-
ernment, its people. As soon
as they feel they have won
your confidence, they begin,
slyly and slowly, to em-
phasize the one "small part
that is missing from the
heart" of the unsuspecting
Soviet Students
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Two students from the
Soviet Union will begin
their studies at the Rab-
binic seminary in Budapest
next semester, according to
Rabbi Arthur Schneier,
president of the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation and
senior rabbi at Park East
Synagogue.
Rabbi Schneier recently
led a three-man delegation
to Moscow and met with
Vladimir Fitsev, deputy
chairman of the Council on
Religious Affairs of the
USSR.
Several years ago, the
Appeal of Conscience Foun-
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thing about the shortage of
religious leadership for
Russian Jews, and in 1974
reached an agreement with
the Soviet governinent to
allow Soviet Jews to study
at the Budapest Rabbinic
Seminary.
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Jew: "a little love of Christ"!
Parroting the success
of the Hineni educational
movement of Rebetzen
Esther Jungreis, in New
York, they have named
themselves "Hineni Mis-
sionaries," trying to
capitalize on the confu-
sion.that their new name
might cause.
In addition, they have
come out with a series of
colorful pamphlets with in-
viting titles, such as "Jesus
Made Me Kosher," "Torah is
Good for the Soul" and "Am
Yisroel Chai — Israel Must
Live."
The poorly educated Jew,
or the college Jewish youth,
away from home for the first
time, lonely, pressured by
his studies, eager for some
kind of warmth that re-
minds him of home, is easily
ensnared by this type of
propaganda.
On the American Jewish
scene, the only ones that
have actively mobilized
themselves to combat this
assault upon the Jewish
community are the Anti-
Shmad Campaign of the
World Lubavitch Move-
ment, the Anti-Missionary
Institute, Yad L'Achim and
the Jews for Judaism
Movement. The strongest
weapon against these mis-
sionary activities is a solid
Jewish background of
Torah education. Parents
should warn their sons and
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from home to be prepared
for these thieves of the soul.
A good Hanuka gift for
the home-coming collegian
is Samuel Levine's "You
Take Jesus, I'll Take G-d" or
"The Jew and the Christian
Missionary" by Gerald
Segal. These and other pow-
erful books written to com-
bat the so-called Hebrew
Christian missionaries are
available in every Jewish
book store.
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