Word: counterattacking
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...proselytizers have mostly aimed their message at Israeli youth. Responding to the fears of alarmed Orthodox Jewish parents, Harold Fenton, a Jerusalem pharmacologist, has organized a spiritual counterattack. His committee has infiltrated Jews for Jesus meetings and discovered that some 1,270 youths (predominantly American Jews) are in operation. Fenton and friends now drop in on Christian youth hostels and missionary schools, seek out young Jews wearing Jesus buttons, and try to persuade them to move...
...Jews for Jesus invasion and Fenton's counterattack have helped revive an Orthodox campaign to expel all Christian missions from Israel. Some of the uproar has spilled over into the Israeli government. Last month four Cabinet ministers were assigned to consider drafting a new law to curb "the Christian missionaries of the Jews for Jesus movement." But Justice Minister Ya'acov Shapiro believes that Israel must continue its liberal policies toward other religions: "If you want to rule Jerusalem, you must accept this kind of thing." And the Liberal Party's Yitzhak Golan says: "In a democracy...
...situation to be borne with stiff upper lips and all that? Not at all. A Cornish counterattack is mounted by an aged but indomitable exactress who runs a sort of orphanage. Her rustic crew of local stalwarts prevails by deploying the hackneyed virtues of the English character: sly eccentricity, calculated insult, a modicum of violence...
...area is bustling. Women try to sell nuts and fruits, children hawk secondhand shoelaces, and the men are not likely to find more than two days' work a week. Some farmers have been hit just as hard. The threat of Communist attack-and of American bombs in counterattack-has kept thousands of them from tending their rice fields...
President Tietjen mounted his own counterattack, delivering to all Synod pastors a 35-page document that declared the fact-finding committee's report "unfair," "unreliable," "untrue," "unscriptural" and "un-Lutheran." Tietjen quoted several faculty members who enumerated the ways in which they felt they had been misunderstood or quoted out of context by the fact-finding committee. While defending the use of modern methods of biblical criticism (rejected by Preus), the faculty argued that their cautious use of these methods at Concordia does not jeopardize basic Lutheran beliefs. What is in jeopardy, Tietjen believes, is the very existence...