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Mr. Jacobs is about to begin
the Rev. Brickner moved with his
family to Farmington and at- a major campaign targeting Jews
tended Farmington public in the area.
"I am not embarrassed about
schools.
In between school and home- it. I am very straightforward
work, David Brickner halfheart- about it," Mr. Jacobs said. "We
edly studied the Bible in Israel's believe that mainstream Ju-
Remnant, a "Hebrew-Christian" daism, apart from Yeshua (Je-
church his grandparents found- sus), is terribly deficient and that
ed in Detroit in the 1950s. the Jewish community is in des-
"I was like most rebellious perate need of the messiah who
teen-agers," he said. "I didn't pay has already come."
Mr. Jacobs said his congrega-
too much attention to that."
It wasn't long before he moved lion plans a direct-mail campaign
back to the East Coast to study in the next month, sending
orchestral performance at Boston 60,000 letters to local Jewish
University. Soon after meeting a families. The letters will carry an
representative of Jews for Jesus, invitation to sample an audiotape
he put down the trumpet and left series which proclaims Jesus is
the university to study at Moody the Jewish messiah. The locally
Bible Institute in Chicago, a sponsored direct-mail drive will
Christian college. run concurrently with full-page
After obtaining a degree in advertisements in the Detroit
Jewish studies (a department News and Detroit Free Press tout-
headed by a "Messianic Jew"), ing Jews for Jesus' message.
Meanwhile, a Website on the
the Rev. Brickner held various
positions in the Jews for Jesus Internet for the international or-
organization and was ordained ganization has attracted more
by the Baptist General Confer- than a few curious browsers, the
Rev. Brickner said.
ence.
'There is a stigma attached to
Now the head of the profes-
sional organization that, like oth- Jewish people considering the
er segments of the "messianic" message of Jesus. You are a trai-
community, is closely aligned for to your people," he said. "Now
with Christian fundamentalist people can do this in the priva-
and evangelical churches, he has cy of their own homes."
Jews for Judaism also haL-71:
plans to open branches in Ger-
many and Australia. Current op- turned to the Internet. While the
erations include offices in the organization's finances are tight,
United States, Canada, Argenti- education and countermeasures
na, England, France, Russia, the remain a priority, particularly in
Ukraine, South Africa and Israel, light of the Baptist effort, an-
which are staffed by 140 full-time nounced this summer, to convert
Jews. Educational material and
workers.
Locally, the "messianic" move- the Website are their biggest
ment is small but active, count- weapons, Mr. Powers said.
"Our objective is to provide ed-
ing two congregations with a
combined total of 160 families. ucation and let people know what
They hold services on Saturday, (the "messianic" movement's) rap
speak some Hebrew, do not eat is and what their objective is," he
shellfish and pork but do mix said.
The Rev. Brickner's organiza-
dairy and meat, and celebrate
major Jewish holidays, but with tion, Jews for Jesus, does not
have a full-time office in the De-
a "messianic" twist.
For example, their emphasis troit area, but works instead
on Passover is placed not on the through local congregations.
Communities with large Jew-
Exodus from Egypt but on the be-
lief that Jesus died and was res- ish populations, like Los Ange,-
les, San Francisco, Chicago, New
urrected from the dead.
"We feel we are true repre- York, south Florida, Dallas and
sentatives of the Jewish people. Washington, D.C., do have full-
We celebrate the Sabbath and all time offices.
The Rev. Brickner said he sees i
Jewish holidays," said Loren Ja-
cobs, a leader of Congregation no conflict in accepting Jesus as
Shema Yisrael of Southfield, the messiah and being Jewish.
which is affiliated with the Union "I was born Jewish and I will
of Messianic Jewish Congrega- die Jewish," he said. 'Those are
tions not mutually exclusive terms." ❑
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