RE: news bits

[Greg Crawford]

Church headquarters in Louisville, Ky., has been "inundated" with hundreds of angry phone calls and e-mails from Jews who protested votes on Jewish evangelism and the Israeli-Jewish conflict during the church's recent General Assembly in Richmond, Va. Delegates narrowly voted -- 260-233 -- to maintain funding for churches, including one in suburban Philadelphia, that are geared toward Jewish converts to Christianity.   The Philadelphia congregation, Avodat Yisrael, received $260,000 from various church agencies and has been called offensive by Jews for its use of Jewish ritual music and sacred objects such as Torah scrolls and menorahs in Christian worship.   It’s fairly obvious that nothing much has changed since the days when the apostles were harassed for proclaiming the Gospel to their fellow Jews. What is frightening is the political power of modern American Jews, and the fact they can get away with labelling anyone who does not toe their line as “anti-Semitic”. Believe it or not, Jesus and all the apostles were Jews, and they called upon their fellow Jews to become Christians. Harassment of Jewish Christians by Jews should surely be illegal.    - Greg