That would include such charges as "Leaders Court Christian Missionaries Who Target Jews for Conversion", "turning a blind eye to the risks involved", "regularly solicit and encourage some of the very same evangelical organizations which are actively engaged in missionary activities", "this report will serve as a wake-up call for Jewish leadership", "openly cooperates with Christian and messianic missionary groups", "uses Christian imagery, cites Christian theology, and blurs the lines between faiths", "has formed a remarkable and disturbing bond", "'cover boy', so to speak, of Zola Levitt's missionary newsletter...[which] places emphasis on evangelizing and the need to build-up the messianic community in Israel" and, the 'best' of all:
"shmad" would not be an incorrect term to use for what is being allowed to occur in Israel.All summed up so, that I and others:
...need to stop and think, and to use a great deal of wisdom, foresight and honesty in their dealings with evangelizing Christians. As an alternative, perhaps they should stop dealing with them altogether! It is most tragic that Torah observant leadership in Israel has unabashedly chosen to partner with and embrace those who are determined to draw Jews away from their faith.I really have not that much time to continue to respond to slurs, misquotations, misrepresentations, innuendos, guilt-by-association and other such desperate attempts by JewishIsrael to hurt and injure Rabbinic-approbated and authorized attempts in the fields of Hasbara, diplomacy and politics. Not in theology or ecumenism.
No Jewish soul has been 'lost' in this enterprise.
We do combat active missionizing and make clear to our partners that we have zero-toleration in this matter.
I do feel that despite their disclaimer, JewishIsrael, in its over-enthusiastic attempts to "save", are deliberately, for their own uses, manipulating what goes on and what results from our activities and are hurting the national camp of which they say they are part. They slander.
Christian Zionism, as it is termed, is not only part of the history of the establishment of the state of Israel, but fits with the prophecies that the 'foreigner' will come and then, at a later stage, attach himself to the redemptive process.
We, my friends and I, are satisfied that we are doing our best, with success in assuring that no harm will come to any Jew or the state of Israel through our efforts but that only good will be the result.
I cannot say the same for what JewishIsrael is doing in this sphere of their blogging.
And that's a shanda.
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And it will come to pass that if you continually hearken to My commandments that I command you today, to love Hashem, your G-d, and to serve him with all your heart and will all your soul-then I will provide rain for your land in its proper time, the early and late rains, that you may gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. I will provide grass in your field for your cattle and you will be satisfied. Beware lest your heart be seduced and you turn astray and serve gods of others and bow to them. Then the wrath of Hashem will blaze against you. He will restrain the heaven so there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce. And you will swiftly be banished from the goodly land which Hashem gives you.
Dvarim 11:13-21 (part of the shema)
a) that is so haughty. i say Shema twice daily. i do loads of mitzvot. i do not go astray.
b) after 8 years of HaYovel our vineyards and olive orchards are producing much more and better.
c) try Isaiah 60:10 And aliens shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in My wrath I smote thee, but in My favour have I had compassion on thee.
1. "Torah Judaism" didn't exist until Exile began.
2. JewishIsrael is a business. Its leaders get paid to shneur. They are the first cousins of Al Sharpton.
3. What they can do, we can do.
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