World
The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit's
Institute for Retired Professionals
presents
Photo by Barry Yeoman
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28
at the D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus
6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield
Mayor Kilpatrick will discuss
"Detroit's Economy: Today and Tomorrow."
This event is free and open to the public.
I
For information, contact the IRP office, 248.967.4030, ext. 2018
Or 248.661.1000, ext. 2406
Karol Joseph of Jews for Jesus gives an evangelical spin on the meaning of
matzah.
THE CENTER
INS1I1UTE FOR RETIR=ED
PROFESSIONALS
Mixing Religions
The Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP) provides an intellectual and
social environment within the Jewish community for mature adults. It offers
a forum for persons who wish to creatively use their experience, knowledge
and talent for lifelong learning to enrich themselves and their community.
Growing evangelical movement
finding new ways to proselytize.
1329510
Barry Yeoman
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
MAI\ "LOW
an evening of Music anc passion
Saturcay
December 15
1 he Pa ce of Au
n F-
PRESENTED E.
•livenation.com
•palacenet.com
•248.645-6666
•ticketmaster
•Palace Box Office
•manilow.com
A22
November 22 • 2007
IN
This is the first of two articles, excerpt-
ed from a Jewish Telegraphic Agency
series.
Cary, N.C.
K
arol Joseph, a staff member
with Jews for Jesus, has
come to deliver a talk on
"Christ in the Passover" at Living
Springs Family Center, a storefront
Pentecostal church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
It's one of several polished programs
developed by the $20 million a year
ministry to help rank-and-file evan-
gelicals proselytize to their Jewish co-
workers, employers and clients.
Joseph, 55, grew up in a
Conservative synagogue in Newton,
Mass., and flirted with Scientology
and Buddhism before a classmate led
her to Christ in the 1980s. Now she
feels called to "witness:' or share her
faith, "to the Jew first:' as the New
Testament commands.
Standing behind a table filled with
Passover symbols, Joseph describes
the seder through a Christian lens:
"Some rabbis tell that the three
layers of matzah represent Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob," she says. "But why
would the middle matzah be broken,
buried and brought back?"
To Joseph it symbolizes Christ the
Son, sandwiched between the Father
and Holy Spirit. Moreover, the lamb
shank evokes "the sacrifice of an even
greater Passover lamb, our Lord Jesus:'
she says.
Before the 10th plague, the killing
of the firstborn son, "when the blood
of the lambs would drip down from
[Jewish] doorposts, it would form the
sign of the cross," she says.
Shouts of "amen" erupt from the
pews of Caribbean immigrants. It's
time for Joseph's appeal.
"A lot of you know Jewish people
she says. "We need your help.
"More Jewish people hear the
Gospel from one of you than from one
of us," Joseph adds, explaining that
lay Christians are just as important
as professional evangelists at winning
converts.
Joseph invites members to purchase
instructional books and DVDs, attend
local evangelism events and donate
money toward her efforts.
Shirley Brathwaite, a home health-
care aide originally from Trinidad,
says she would like to share her beliefs
with three elderly Jewish clients with-
out intruding into their lives or getting
fired by her agency.
"I know these people really need
help;' Brathwaite says, her words lack-
ing the sophistication of professional
missionaries but every bit as passion-
ate. "They're lost. They're looking for
the Messiah to come, and they're look-