Recently there was a movie which Morris Dees paid for on TV which should have been sub titled How Great Thou Art but speaking of deception in this movie, he stands with a little girl alleged to be his daughter - the one he was accused of molesting by his wife, and in the background a Christmas Tree giving the impression this man is a Christian. Then it occurred to me - is he one of the above? Is Dees really a Jew for Jesus - one would think so. This story is part of the ADL propaganda Hate Machine of which Dees, is a part - this Southern Poverty Law Center is the biggest fraud of all - they all seem to hate "white trailer trash", as James Carville would say in league with these Jews for Jesus - and I imagine David Duke's recent visit to Russia - well speaks for itself for it seems as of late the Isralis are being outnumbered by the Russkies? Note the new Russkie flag is Red White and Blue for they dropped the Arm and Hammer crap - too obvious but I will say this the Star of David Flag is beautiful and the same beautiful colors of the UN flag? But I say, what they going to do with that Pope - is he a Jew for Jesus or whaat? Zionism is Communism......In League with the Devil - the Anti Christs there name is Legion, for boy they are many? Saba Home | Law Enforcement | Search | About | Contribute | Contact With Subterfuge and Deception 'Jews For Jesus' Target Jews E-Mail This Report Printable Version Help ADL Fight Anti-Semitism! In July 2001, unsuspecting individuals around the country received a slick mailing from "Jews for Jesus" offering a free video titled "Survivor Stories." The mailing depicts an elderly female Holocaust survivor with the message: "Some say you can't be Jewish and believe in Jesus. I disagree… So won't you at least hear my story before you dismiss my beliefs?" Similarly, in a "Jews for Jesus" Internet promotion of the video, the person says: "[B]efore you dismiss my belief, you should know that in addition to being Jewish, I'm also a Holocaust Survivor… All I ask is that you hear my story and those of several other remarkable Jews who have suffered greatly and now truly believe in Jesus." A "Jews for Jesus" flyer called Be More Jewish. "Jews for Jesus," whose actual name is Hineni Ministries, is a San Francisco, California-based activist Christian missionary movement aimed directly at people of the Jewish faith. It was founded in 1970 in California by Baptist minister Martin Rosen, a convert to Christianity and a longtime staff member of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, a Christian proselytizing group now called Chosen People Ministries, Inc. "Jews for Jesus" seeks to convert Jews to the belief that Jesus is the Messiah; it misleadingly claims that accepting Jesus as the Messiah is compatible with Jewish theology. "Being Jewish has nothing to do with belief" but "being Christian is a matter of belief," a spokesman for the group has said. A copy of Issues, a "Jews for Jesus" bimonthly journalNow in his late-60s, Rev. Rosen, "Jews for Jesus" founder and longtime prime mover, has been a Baptist minister for more than 40 years. A native of Denver, Colorado, Rosen converted to Christianity in 1953 and left his hometown the following year to attend Northeastern Bible College, from which he graduated in 1957 and received his ordination. He then joined the New York staff of the American Board of Missions to the Jews. There, Rev. Rosen, who was said to be a tireless proselytizer with a folksy style who dropped Yiddishisms into his conversation, served for two years with the "Hebrew-Christian" Beth Sar Shalom Congregation. For the next 10 years he was the minister of a "Hebrew-Christian" congregation in Los Angeles. In 1970, Rev. Rosen moved to San Francisco where the "Jesus movement" was active. There, he exchanged his "establishment" presence for a denim jacket with "Jews for Jesus" emblazoned on the back, took to calling himself "Moishe" Rosen, and began "speaking in slogans" to attract attention. Until late 1973, support for "Jews for Jesus" and its activities was provided by Rev. Rosen's sponsoring agency, the American Board of Missions to the Jews. In September 1973, Rev. Rosen with nine others left the employ of the American Board of Missions to the Jews to form his own group, Hineni Ministries, to carry on the "aggressive" evangelistic activities of the "Jews for Jesus" group. Throughout the years, "Jews for Jesus" has promoted its evangelistic message with slogans such as "Be More Jewish, Believe in Jesus" and "Jesus Was Raised in a Kosher Home." Such slogans have appeared on signs at rallies organized by Rev. Rosen and on "satirical" leaflets and flyers produced by the group. One such flyer is titled "Christmas Is a Jewish Holiday (Or at least it should be)." It depicts a Christmas tree with a Jewish star on top of it and proclaims: "If you knew what we know that Jesus really is the Messiah then you would agree that Christmas should be a Jewish Holiday." Another flyer, titled "Welcome to Cyberspace," says: "Through Y'Shua (Jesus) we can reboot and interface with our Creator." Among other "Jews for Jesus" flyer titles have been "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jesus...But Were Afraid to Ask Your Rabbi"; "Is It True Jews Don't Believe in Jesus?"; "Jesus Made Me Kosher"; "Goyim for Jesus"; "What the World Needs Now!" and "If Being Born Hasn't Given You Much Satisfaction...Try Being Born Again!" Another flyer, titled "Kosher Pigs," depicted a pig with a Jewish star and the word "kosher" in Hebrew on it, and stated: "Jesus is so powerful that he can make us pigs to be kosher to God." "Jews for Jesus" also produces a bimonthly journal, Issues: A Messianic Jewish Perspective; a monthly newsletter, The Jews for Jesus Newsletter: For Christians Who Want to Know More About Jews and Evangelism; a quarterly, Havurah; a periodic news release, Jews for Jesus Briefing Bulletin; and a book review publication, Outtakes. "Jews for Jesus" operates the Liberated Wailing Wall, traveling evangelistic teams whose promotional material states that they engage in "Singing Jewish songs about Jesus and telling how Jesus made them more Jewish." Another of the group's divisions is Purple Pomegranate Productions which produces "Jews for Jesus" books and music and teaching cassettes. The most recent -- and controversial -- cassette is the previously mentioned video titled "Survivor Stories," which is part of a five-year, 66-city outreach campaign by "Jews for Jesus" titled "Behold Your God." It was first promoted in April 2001 in ads in national magazines such as TIME and Newsweek. The ads were timed to appear during the commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Reporting on the campaign, the Anglo-Jewish newspaper The Forward said: "In a dramatic tactical shift, the Christian missionary group Jews for Jesus has masked its proselytizing efforts behind the one event considered out-of-bounds by even the most aggressive of evangelists: the Holocaust." The group also operates a World Wide Web site. In 2001, the Web site was divided into two parts: one with material for Christians, the other to "communicate to Jewish people who don't yet believe in Jesus." "Jews for Jesus" has an annual operating budget of $13 million, reportedly furnished in large part by other Christian evangelists, and a staff of 140. The group has offices in six U.S. cities, "stations" in Toronto, London, Paris, Moscow, Odessa, Johannesburg, and Buenos Aires, and activists in Germany and Australia. The claimed circulation of its publication, Issues, is 27,000. In the U.S., "Jews for Jesus" has placed special emphasis on proselytizing newly arrived Russian Jews. The Village Voice newspaper in New York quoted critics who contend that the group has used subterfuge and deception on new Jewish immigrants from Russia, who were cut off from their Jewish heritage and Jewish religious beliefs and practices by the Soviet Union's atheistic communist system. According to the 1997 Village Voice story, the "Jews for Jesus" approach to these immigrants has been to claim that they can be Jewish and believe in Jesus as the Messiah. The same article quoted one critic of "Jews for Jesus" activities as saying: "They [Russian Jews] should simply know the real differences. And then they can choose. And what they choose is personal. But there is no such thing as a Jew for Jesus." "Jews for Jesus" missionary activities have involved the group in litigation and controversy. To resolve a lawsuit stemming from a dispute surrounding a Catskill Mountains hotel renting space to "Jews for Jesus," in 1993 the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York agreed not to interfere with any "Jews for Jesus" contracts and to pay the group $15,000 as compensation for expenses incurred. Another recent controversy arose over the group's placing of ads in 10 bus shelters in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, which depicted a Jewish Torah scroll with Hebrew lettering framed by the slogan "Be more Jewish, Believe in Jesus." The outdoor advertising company subsequently canceled the ads, citing widespread complaints and vandalism. Earlier, in mid-1996, David Brickner, who had been in charge of the "Jews for Jesus" New York office, relocated to San Francisco to become the group's executive director. Brickner, who was raised in a "Jewish Christian home" [sic] and ordained a Baptist minister, has long been active in the missionary group. In the late 1980s, he was director of the "Jews for Jesus" Chicago office. He also played trumpet for the Liberated Wailing Wall group. Brickner told The Washington Post in early 1997 that evangelism is confrontational by definition and that he has "no apologies" for his passionate approach to witnessing for Jesus. He said that those who reject the teaching that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ will exist at the end of time in "eternal separation from God and all His goodness." Brickner expounded further on this theme in a letter in the March 1997 issue of First Things magazine. He said: "As the Executive Director of the largest Jewish mission agency, I am heartened that the Southern Baptist Church, the largest Protestant denomination, has taken such a courageous stand for the evangelization of Jewish people. What Jewish community leaders are calling a 'great setback' in Jewish-Christian relations is really a great leap forward in crystallizing the issue that Jesus is the Messiah for everyone, including Jews." Indeed, the "Jews for Jesus" Web site proclaims: "We exist to make the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people world-wide." ADL Home Page | Special Reports Front Page Search | About ADL | Contact ADL | Privacy Policy This report was originally issued in July 2001. © 2001 Anti-Defamation League
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