Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called for an intensified effort to convert Jews to Christianity. Bachmann, a former congresswoman from Minnesota who ran for the Republican presidential nod in 2012, was in Israel last week on a tour organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. Toward the end of the week, she…
Laurie Cardoza-Moore is responsible for one of the signal achievements in the battle against attempts to boycott Israel: a bill passed in the Tennessee state legislature condemning boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel as anti-Semitic, before any other such measure reached the capitals of other states. But search Cardoza-Moore’s name, and one of the first…
The organized Evangelical Christian community in Argentina will join the Jewish community in a rally in support of Israel. It is the first time that an Evangelical clergy member will address a rally organized by the Jewish community in the South American country. The rally will take place on Thursday in front of the Israeli…
Thousands of evangelical Christians from dozens of countries gathered in Jerusalem for a pro-Israel conference. Participants in the six-day Feast of Tabernacles conference will parade through Jerusalem’s streets on Thursday, a day before the conference ends. The attendees are from 80 countries — including some historically hostile to Israel, such as Egypt — and several…
Sixty years ago, a Jewish intellectual named Will Herberg published a book that jolted the way Americans thought about their religious landscape. The title of his book, if not his musty thesis, could describe a new American religious alignment that presents serious challenges for progressive Jews and Judaism today. “Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious…
Wearing black hats or donning small yarmulkes, Orthodox Jews represent a distinct subgroup within the Jewish community — more observant, more conservative and more insular. But the revelation in a report released today by the Pew Research Center is that Orthodox Jews vote, believe, worship, act and raise their children more like white evangelical Protestants…
Conservative Jewish funders and Christian donors of Hobby Lobby fame have joined forces to launch a Christian Birthright trip, modeled after the successful program that has taken thousands of Jewish young adults to Israel for the past 16 years. Covenant Journey, a subsidized evangelical 11-day trip to Israel that was officially announced May 8, will…
Here’s why I’m not on board with the growing chorus protesting JNF’s honoring Dr. Charles Stanley, one of the most prominent evangelical leaders in the country, and the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention (membership 15 million). It’s not that he isn’t anti-gay. He is, and I assume he’d be proud to admit it….
זי שטעלט אויך צונויף אַ פּאָדקאַסט מיטן בראָדװײ־אַקטיאָר האַל ראָבינסאָן אין דער ראָלע פֿון רעכטצײַט.
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