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It has been becoming a real disgrace for us Jews and even for our own country how leading politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) or Rabbis are receiving money from Christian organizations. Our present Kadima - Government doesn't see anything negative in accepting money from, for instance, the radical Christian missionary group, the Evangelists.
Furthermore, the Aliyah organizations "Nefesh be'Nefesh" and the "Jewish Agency for Israel" are being financially supported by Christian organizations. And the Christians don't even hide their evil purposes such as bringing back the Jews to Israel, convert them to Christianity and then their false Meshiach J. would show up.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the present national religious Chief Rabbi of Efrat, has been more than active in the Christian - Jewish business. For years, he has brought Indians claiming their Jewishness to Israel. Now he is offering a hotel in the religious settlement of Efrat, near Jerusalem, to Christian organizations helping them to fulfill "their self - made up task".
An example of how the national religious Rabbi Riskin embraces the Evangelists:
I Stand with Pastor John Hagee
Contact: David Birnbaum, Ohr Torah Stone Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding & Cooperation, 212-935-8672
OPINION, June 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- Pastor John Hagee is a towering leader in the Evangelical Church who has dedicated a great part of his enormously successful ministry to reaching out in love and loving-kindness to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. He has admirably defended our right to our historic homeland even when our enemies have attempted to disgorge us from our homes and drive us into the sea; he has praised the Lord for having imbued us, the "post-Holocaust dry bones of Ezekiel," with renewed life and vigor even when our arch-enemy and the arch-enemy of the free world has called us a "stinking corpse." He has organized Christian lobby groups for the only true democracy in the Middle East across the length and breadth of the United States even when a former American President and professors from Harvard and Chicago Universities have denounced our own lobbying efforts as un-American and anti-Democratic.
Pastor Hagee has expressed his profound affection for us even when it has been most unpopular to do so. Can we, the recipients of his heart and goodwill, dare be silent now, when the political frenzy of primary elections hysterically seeks to defame and discredit one of the greatest voices on behalf of Christian-Jewish healing and cooperation? No, for the sake of Jerusalem and for the sake of the God of love and peace we must raise our voices in support of and friendship for the very individual who has never faltered in his support and friendship for us!
Does this mean that I must necessarily agree with all of the theological positions taken by Pastor Hagee? Not at all! True friendship means that I continue to love and even partner with my friend, despite disagreeing with him on even fundamental positions of theology and ideology – as long as his views do not threaten the life or limb of innocent human beings. And in fact in subsequent articles I hope to express my own theological position about God and the existence of evil, Jewish history and the place of Hitler (may his very name be blotted out). But if I can only love those with whom I agree completely, then I cannot even love myself – because I may very well come to disagree tomorrow with whatever I may have thought and said today! As Pastor Hagee himself has remarked, if I am completely in accord with whatever you think and say, then one of us becomes superfluous.
We are living in a world divided between those who believe in a God of love and peace, and those who believe in a Satan of Jihad and suicide bombers. Any attempt to marginalize and slander leaders of the camp of the former will only serve to strengthen the camp of the latter, with the future existence of the free world perilously hanging in the balance. And so I continue to proudly shout from the rooftops that this rabbi in Israel stands firmly alongside -his beloved friend, a true friend of Israel and the free world, Pastor John Hagee.
Shlomo Riskin
Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel
Founder: Ohr Torah Stone Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding & Cooperation
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http://www.cjcuc.com/
Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Israel can barely sustain herself so we cannot be too picky about donors. Also, to shun the christian organizations would mean to piss off most of the Neocon camp. No, they don't hide their intentions because they think that they are perfectly right. We know, they aren't. But let them find out for themselves and in the meantime let's not spoil the party.
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ReplyDeleteI do agree with you.:-))))
However, I have to say that we should warn further Jews of those missionaries and their evil purposes.
We could say: "Let's take their money and then they can go to hell - Lechu Le'Azalzel". But the money may help them to get into the country and even missionize a few Jews successfully.
In the end, as you said, they will get punished for it and realize that they cannot betray G - d.
All I can say is BEWARE!! These people are very devious and in the end Israel could end up selling her soul. Already these people have many huge building, plots of land and government approval. Do you know that a Xian can enter Israel and become a citizen sooner than some Jews?? The money is nice but nothing is for free and in the end they will do their best to help the arabs wipe us out.
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