34 Friday, December 10, 1902 FRUIT BASKETS FOR ALL OCCASIONS WORLD-WIDE DELIVERY THE BASKET SHOPPE_ 2666 COOLIDGE • Berkley 545-0505 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 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 DANCE! into the 80's PARTIES BY 1 1 Rock & Roll Disco 50's, 60's, 70's Best Music We Haven't Stopped Dancing — Why Should You! Call Dan Sandberg 353-6699 Ali t BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN ABBE A. LEVI OPTICIAN GOOD GLASSES Div. of Fanab Inc. 25900 Greenfield, 101 Kristen Bldg. CORNER GREENFIELD AND UNCOLN Phone 967-0790 HOURS MON. thru THURS. 9:30 to 4:30 FRIDAY 9:30 to 1:00 SUNDAY 10:00 to 1:00 P.M. Closed Saturday 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 50% OFF ALL CULTURED PEARLS 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. 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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- dation decided to do some- 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. Out of clothes, out of countenance; out of conte- nance, out of wit. —Ben Jonson 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 • PLACEMATS • TABLECLOTHS daughters who are away 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. 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