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While we embrace allies of all faiths and backgrounds, we do not consider Christian missionaries to be our allies. We, and other mainstream Jewish organizations, deem proselytizing specifically aimed at Jews a real and pressing threat to the Jewish Nation (in Israel and abroad). We maintain that "Jews for Jesus" and "Messianic Judaism" are predatory and dishonest movements that are a direct threat to Jews and Judaism. Dressing Christianity in Jewish is often used as a deception to lure unaffiliated and distant Jews who feel a connection but don't have information about their own culture. While the land of Israel experiences a physical existential threat, the Jewish nation also experiences an existential threat on its culture, heritage and religion from missionaries. To read more about this issue, please see the content below.
http://jewsforjudaism.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/handbook_english.1.pdf - find working link
http://www.outreachjudaism.org/articles/evangelizing-the-jews.html
http://www.aish.com/sp/ph/48918997.html
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While we embrace allies of all faiths and backgrounds, we do not consider Christian missionaries to be our allies. We, and other mainstream Jewish organizations, deem proselytizing specifically aimed at Jews a real and pressing threat to the Jewish Nation (in Israel and abroad). We maintain that "Jews for Jesus" and "Messianic Judaism" are predatory and dishonest movements that are a direct threat to Jews and Judaism. Dressing Christianity in Jewish is often used as a deception to lure unaffiliated and distant Jews who feel a connection but don't have information about their own culture. While the land of Israel experiences a physical existential threat, the Jewish nation also experiences an existential threat on its culture, heritage and religion from missionaries. To read more about this issue, please see the content below.
http://jewsforjudaism.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/handbook_english.1.pdf - find working link
http://www.outreachjudaism.org/articles/evangelizing-the-jews.html
http://www.aish.com/sp/ph/48918997.html
add Dianne BEdderman article