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News ‘Lost Tribe King’ from Togo Embraced by Orthodox Rabbis in Israel
A Togolese man, calling himself a king and descendant of an ancient Lost Tribe, has gained prominent Orthodox allies in Israel and even held a meeting with the Minister of Religious Affairs to request his people be recognized as a Lost Tribe of Israel. Francois A. Ayi, who describes himself as belonging to “one of…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Doubles Down on ‘Convert or Die, Jews’ Pastor
Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign defended an endorsement from a controversial pastor who has called Adolf Hitler a hunter “raised up” by God and actively seeks to convert Jews. Kansas evangelical Pastor Mike Bickle, whose endorsement the campaign publicized last month, runs a project called “Israel Mandate,” one of whose goals is “partnering with Messianic Jews…
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News Slain Messianic Jew Was Outspoken Admirer of Israel — and Jews
(JTA) — While America puzzles over the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, many American Jews are puzzling over an additional element: the religious identity of victim Nicholas Thalasinos. Pictured on his Facebook page wearing a scarf-style tallit prayer shawl, Thalasinos, who was killed along with 13 others in Wednesday’s shooting at a center for…
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Fast Forward Slain Jew Argued Radical Islam and Israel with San Bernardino Shooter
Nicholas Thalasinos, the Messianic Jew killed in the shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, reportedly sparred with his alleged killer over Islam and Israel weeks before his death. Thalasinos got into an argument with Syed Rizwan Farook several weeks prior to the shooting on Wednesday, which left 14 people dead and 21 injured, according to…
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Fast Forward One of San Bernardino Shooting Victims Was Messianic Jew
One of the victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California has been identified as a Messianic Jew. Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a health department worker and colleague of the suspected shooter. Thalasinos was gunned down along with 13 others during a work holiday party. In a phone interview with The New York Times,…
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Opinion When Israel’s Chickens Come Home to Poop
The policies of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister are starting to bear an eerie resemblance to climate change: The critics all look like a bunch of whining scaremongers prophesying an implausibly apocalyptic ruination that’s sure to come in some fuzzily distant end-time. Even if it’s true, it’s too far away to worry about. That is, until…
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News South Dakota’s Tiny Hillel Embraces Messianic Jews
South Dakota State University’s Hillel affiliate, B’rith Sholom is more than the only Jewish cultural club in the entire state; its nine members constitute a unique diversity among America’s Jewish organizations, since about half of them identify as Messianic Jews, or those who engage in Jewish practices and accept Jesus as the Messiah. Messianic Jews…
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Culture What George W. Bush Really Said to Jews for Jesus
The Messianic Jewish Bible Institute in Dallas hosted George W. Bush as the keynote speaker at its annual fundraiser on November 14, 2013. He spoke to the group’s mission of bringing “Jewish people into a personal relationship of faith with Yeshua the Messiah.” Until now the speech has been the subject of a strict embargo…
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