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Local leaders react to
Baptists' High Holiday
conversion prayers.

HARRY KIRS BAUM

Staff Writer

A

call for evangelical
Christians to pray for the
conversion of Jews during
the High Holy Days was
met with strong comments from
Jewish leaders last week.
The statements came in response to
the Southern Baptist Convention's
efforts to distribute a new booklet
offering suggestions on how to pray
that Jews find Jesus.
The booklet, titled "Days Of Awe,"
offers background information on
High Holiday traditions and urges
Baptists to "pray for Jewish individuals
you know by name."
"There continues to be a funda-
mental lack of understanding in seg-
ments of the evangelical community,
of why this is so offensive," said
Donald Cohen, director of the Anti-
Defamation League/Michigan Region.
"It amazes me that we still have to
deal with the question of whether this
is offensive to the Jews, rather than
people recognizing that it is, and try-
ing to justify it as part of a particular
religious belief. It shows the lengths
that we have to go for meaningful dia-
lo gue
Sharona Shapiro, Michigan area
director of the American Jewish
Committee, said the concern should
be with the response from vulnerable
Jewish populations.
"Who's hearing their message?" she
said. "Who is moving from being
aligned with the mainstream Jewish
community and becoming attracted
by the messages preached by the
Southern Baptists and others?"
B'nai B'rith International President
and former Detroiter Richard D.
Heideman said the call is "not merely
insensitive but hostile. We note that in
recent decades the Roman Catholic
Church has acknowledged Judaism as
a living religion of continuing scrip-
tural authenticity," he said. "We urge
the Southern Baptist Convention to
do the same." 7

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