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Jews For Jesus
Case Is Settled
New York (JTA) â Both
sides are claiming victory in
the settlement of a
longstanding suit, in which
the New York Jewish Com-
munity Relations Council
has agreed to pay Jews for
Jesus $15,000.
The settlement was reach-
ed after two days of
testimony in what was ex-
pected to have been a three-
week trial in federal district
court in Manhattan.
Judah Gribetz, president
of the JCRC, said his group's
lawyer, Theodore Van Itallie
Jr., "had done (such) signifi-
cant damage to their case"
that Jews for Jesus at-
torneys jumped at a set-
tlement offer identical to one
presented by the JCRC
before the trial began.
The case involved Jews for
Jesus's claim that the JCRC
had violated the missionary
group's civil rights in 1987
by blackmailing the owner
of a kosher Catskills hotel
into canceling Jews for
Jesus's convention reserva-
tions.
It alleged that the JCRC
had threatened to wage an
economic boycott of the ho-
t e 1 , the now-defunct
Stevensville Hotel, if the
convention were held there.
But the former owner of
the resort, Kenneth Din-
nerstein, said under cross-
examination during the se-
. cond day of trial that he may
have been mistaken in
ascribing the threat to the
JCRC's executive director,
Michael Miller.
It may have been made by
an unrelated third party, he
conceded.
Jews for Jesus had initial-
ly demanded that the JCRC
acknowledge "wrongful
interference" with its 1987
convention and admit that
Jews for Jesus "does not
engage in any fraudulent or
deceptive practices." But in
the court-approved set-
tlement, the JCRC only
agreed not to interfere with
any Jews for Jesus contracts
and acknowledged that it
had "no evidence" that Jews
for Jesus has "made
statements in the course of
their missionary activities
without believing these
statements to be true."
"The JCRC refused to
make either of those two
concessions," Van Itallie ex-
plained, "because the JCRC
did not wrongfully interfere
with Jews for Jesus's con-
tractual relations and be-
cause it strongly believes
that Jews for Jesus pro- -)
mulgates a false message
and that its false message \ I
misleads and deceives those
who hear it."
As part of the settlement,
the JCRC also agreed to pay
Jews for Jesus $15,409 as =(
compensation for expenses
incurred by the group in
moving its convention from /1
the Stevensville to a hotel in
New Jersey.
Officials of the JCRC said
the money was less than it ='\
would have cost for expenses
associated with the trial.
The executive director and
founder of Jews for Jesus,
Moishe 'Rosen, said in a
statement that the financial
settlement "was the least of
our concerns."
He said the suit was
brought "not only because
our civil rights and religious c \ /
liberties were violated, but
we could not allow the JCRC
to continue telling people
with whom Messianic Jews
do business that we use
fraudulent and deceptive I
methods of evangelism."
The "public ought to know ;
about how several Jewish
agencies have tried to pre- \I
vent us from renting
facilities, holding public
meetings and practicing the -1-`
free exercise of religion as
Jews," Mr. Rosen said.
"Having won this case," )
he added, "we think that our
detractors will have second
thoughts."
But Mr. van Itallie said
the JCRC has in no way
backed away from its view
that Jews for Jesus uses ,)
deceptive practices in its
work.
In a statement announcing
the settlement, the JCRC cj\
pointed to Mr. van Itallie's
opening statement to the
jury in which he said the
JCRC does not challenge I\
Jews for Jesus's faith but
rather its use of Jewish
symbols.
Mr. van Itallie had told the
jury that the use of such
symbols was nothing more
than "sales tactics" because (
they are "not decreed by
Christianity. They have
been selected by plaintiffs
for conversion of the Jewish
people to Christianity."
Mr. Rosen, who was raised
in a secular Jewish home,
converted to Christianity in
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the early 1950s and formed
Jews for Jesus in 1970.