Little Clown Cars Full Of Angry Yeshiva Bros!

What were we doing there anyhow?

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 Since we were attending a Messianic Jewish Congregation in Bellevue, WA...

We decided to send me along.  It was a good cheap chance to see Israel.  

 I hope that you can click on these and see some of what was going on.

I see that the Trump administration bought the old Diplomat Hotel, where we stayed, as part of the new American Embassy there.  Very good!

The thing that was unusual about this conference was how controversial it was.  The official Jewish organizations were very upset, and set out to protest us, wherever they found us.  In reaction to Jews for Jesus passing out pamphlets and talking with people, the Yeshiva bros made up a pamphlet called Jews for Judaism and papered the world with them!

They literally followed people around and spied on them.  They were very bumbling and funny about it too!  They also posted rude posters.

In years before that, it was literally illegal to be there to present Jesus to the Jewish population.  Sounds silly, after all, he was one of them.

 

Faith Is Costly for Jewish Believers in Israel 

 Facing Israel's Wrath

Such an increase in Messianic Jewish activity is not without cost, however. At least a dozen organizations are devoted to assailing Messianics. Believers say that members of the best-known group, Yad L’Achim, periodically harass congregational leaders by disseminating distorted information about them. A poster with a photo of one Messianic couple and their toddler son, for example, warned: “Watch out for these people.” They are always smiling and helpful, it said, noting, “They love you because they want you to love Jesus.” Yad L’Achim’s tactics also include demonstrations and, some believers claim, bugging telephones, opening mail, and breaking into homes.

Another antagonist is Shmuel Golding, known for the weekly debates at his Jerusalem Institute of Biblical Polemics, where he attacks some 180 New Testament fulfillments of Old Testament prophecy. Golding also offers training for those who wish to dissuade young Messianics, and has “counselors” in place in several countries. In his own counseling, Golding claims a 75-percent rate of Messianics “coming back to their Jewish roots.”

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The Diplomat Hotel had been closed but they re-opened it for us.  It was huge, old fashioned, worn, and actually a little spooky.  I told some of the young guys that it reminded me of the Hotel California.  They were concerned that I must not know what the song was about.  I was so old you know.  40 that year.

I got to talk to some Australians in the bar there.  They were concerned that we not think that all Australians were "like that".  And truly they were not.

The big controversy has always been..do you have to quit being a Jew if you believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah.  Many would insist that you were then a Christian.  Sometimes I have used the terms Jewish Christian..or Christian Jew!  Sometimes that is understood.  Sometimes it is seen as offensive.

How to say this..  I don't think God ever intended for there to be any division at all between Jews and Gentiles after Messiah came.  But, being human, people wandered off. I will leave that, at that.  I will note that I believe modern rabbinic Judaism is off the mark also.

My old rabbi, Murray Silberling.

He didn't have grey hair back then!

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