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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1987

Anti-Cult Rabbi

10-6 Sun.

New York Board of Jewish
Education, Rabbi Spivak
said, "Eighty percent of the
Jewish children in the New
York metropolitan area
receive no Jewish education,
and three out of four Jews no
longer belong to synagogues.
They're cut off.
There are a couple of cults
kids can get into at home,"
Spivak added. "There is the
`Gastrointestinal Jewish'
cult, which makes you a Jew
if you eat a latke or a knish,
and you don't have to do
anything else. There is the
`Jew at Heart' cult, the car-
diac Jew, who doesn't believe
in anything, but is a Jew at
heart. And there's the
`Simcha-Tzora' Jew, who you
only see at weddings and
funerals. Kids look at that,
they see a bar mitzvah forced
on them, they see it's a big
act, and they don't want it.
They're searching for
something.
"Never before has there
been such a need to say to
children, 'This is your tradi-
tion, this is your heritage and
this is how Jews have surviv-
ed, and never before have
children received such
nothing at home!'
Jews for Jesus, which boasts
that it has converted an
average of 10,000 Jews -each
year for the past five years,
operates on practically every
major college campus in the
nation, and actively seeks to
convert Russian-Jewish im-
migrants who find
themselves bewildered by the
American lifestyle.
Funded by both mainline
and evangelical churches, the
group operates on the
premise that all Jews must be
converted to Christianity by
the year 2000 in order to pre-
vent them from casting a
shadow on the Second Com-
ing (of Jesus Christ).
Jews for Jesus circulates
mass amounts of literature.
One pamphlet depicts on its
cover a young man wearing a
kippah and is titled, "Jews by
Heritage, Christians by
Faith!'
Earlier this year, Rabbi
Spivak's action group EMES,
(Educational Media Exposi-
tion Society), was denied a
permit to debate the mis-
sionaries of Jews for Jesus in
Grand Central Station, where
they had been granted per-
mission to set up an informa-
tion table.
Not easily discouraged, the
rabbi set up a camera crew,
marched up to the informaton
table and confronted those
handing out literature. In the
film which resulted from that
confrontation, Rabbi Spivak
asks the Jews for Jesus peo-
ple if it's true that those who

don't recognize Jesus Christ
as their savior will burn in
hell. "Does that mean," he
asked, "that the people who
died in Auschwitz are burn-
ing in hell now because they
didn't recognize Christ? They
went reciting the Shema."
Spivak's questions were
skirted by the missionaries,
who subsequently declined to
return for any of the four up-
coming visits they had
scheduled at Grand Central.
"They assert," said Rabbi
Spivak, "that the six million
Jews who died in the
Holocaust went unredeemed,
and that the six million Jews
in the United States should
not remain unredeemed.
There are a lot of people out
there who would like to see
those 'damned, loud-mouth
Jews' shut up so we can have
a one-religion country."
Through the 2,000-member
EMES action group, Rabbi
Spivak and his colleagues
persist in their attempts to
coax Jewish youth away from
cults and into Judaica. The
organization has a 24-hour
toll free-telephone counsell-
ing service, which Spivak
says is very busy. "A caller
could be a college student
who is away from home,
maybe a girl who is no longer
the belle-of-the-ball like she
was in high school and who
has been approached [by a
religious group] to go away for
the weekend. It could be so-
meone who is trying to get
out of a cult or someone who
is being harassed. We try to
find out what's bothering the
person.
"The easiest people to bring
back into Judaism are those
who have been in cults,
because they're spiritual by
nature, but nobody reaches
out to them!"
The rabbi says that nearly
75 percent of the Jewish
youth he comes into contact
with are successfully brought
out of the cult and back into
Judaism — which brings
other conflicts. Spivak is
aware that many Jews view
Orthodox Judaism as a type
of a cult.
He works closely with Rab-
bi Elimelech Silberberg of the
Bais Chabad Torah Center in
West Bloomfield. Rabbi
Silberberg often takes former
cult members under his wing,
and strives to educate the
community about the goings
on in groups like Jews for
Jesus. "Many people look at
this man, or at a group like
Lubavitch and criticize them,
when what they're doing is
bringing tradition back to the
Jewish people!'
Silberberg commented,
"I've had parents tell me they
would rather see their

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