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Jewish organizations vary their responses to
Jews for Jesus proponents.

SHOSHANNA COHEN
Special to the Jewish News

cults and evangelical Christians who
target Jews for conversion.
"Hopefully, the knowledge that's
Ann Arbor
gained from this program will allow
hey've become a familiar pres- you to go out and tell others that
ence on the University of
Judaism is alive and kicking at the
Michigan's campus this
University of Michigan," JRC Rabbi
month. Wearing black T-shirts with
Aaron Eisenmann told the small
"Jews for Jesus" in big white letters,
group gathered at the JRC.
they stand in the Diag daily, handing
Rather than giving them tools for
out pamphlets to anyone willing to
responding directly t o the Jews for
Jesus volunteers on campus,
Rabbi Skobac instead gave his
audience background informa-
tion on why and how groups tar-
get Jews.
"They've never been success-
ful," Rabbi Skobac said. "For
2,000 years, they've managed to
convert everyone in the world
besides us."
Speaking about how seriously
people take their "identity,"
Rabbi Skobac spoke about how
Christian evangelists discovered
that "the real reason Jews don't •
embrace Christianity is because
it isn't Jewish."
In response, evangelical groups
like Jews for Jesus came up with
a clever strategy: Take the word
"church" out of the equation and
encourage Jews to observe Jewish
holidays with different meanings
embedded in them.
Rabbi Skobac maintained that
handing out pamphlets was
going to convince few, if any,
individuals to convert. The big-
ger danger is prolonged personal
contact with the evangelists.
The two main "risk factors" he
associated with involvement in a
A Jews for Jesus volunteer at U-M tries to
group like Jews for Jesus were a
interest passersby in her cause.
shallow Jewish educational back-
ground and a lack of spiritual
take them.
connection to Judaism.
Jewish organizations on campus as
"It seems to be a problem on cam-
well as individual Jews have chosen
pus and I wanted to know what I
different methods of responding to
could do about it," said Amira Gaba,
the Jews for Jesus' Behold Your God
a U-M freshman and graduate of the
campaign in southeast Michigan.
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan
On Sept. 20, Machon LTtorah"s
Detroit who came to hear Rabbi
Jewish Resource Center (JRC)
Skobac speak.
brought in Rabbi Michael Skobac of
Toronto, education director of Jews
A Christian Problem
for Judaism, an organization that has
become the Jewish community's
U-M Hillel had a different response
leader in responding to the efforts of
to the Jews for Jesus presence on

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