Word: hebrews
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...Messiah promised by the biblical prophets. Many reject the label "convert," and sometimes even "Christian," preferring to call themselves "Messianic" or "completed" Jews. While previous Jewish converts to Evangelicalism became assimilated teetotalers, today's young Jesus Jews often drink wine while observing the Jewish holidays, study Hebrew, and even attend synagogue. Most would agree with Vickie Kress, a New Yorker now attending Bible college in San Francisco: "I feel more Jewish now that I am a Christian...
...Bible is one of the chief lures to conversion. Since Jewish youth usually study it in Hebrew and neglect the prophets, Manhattan Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum describes Christian proselytizing of Jews as "Christian biblical literalism confronting Jewish biblical illiteracy." Evangelicals often teach that the return of the Jews to Israel and the founding of a modern state there were foretold by the prophets, and that the 1967 capture of the Old City of Jerusalem began the fulfillment of Jesus' prediction in Luke 21: 24-27 about his Second Coming...
Traditionally, Judaism has taken a stern view of persons who desert the Jewish community for another faith. Ruling on three cases of Christian conversion, the Massachusetts rabbinical court decreed in March that a Jew who "joins the so-called Hebrew-Christians movement" has "betrayed his people" and has no right to a Jewish marriage or burial. The American Jewish Committee last month sent community leaders a more moderate memo, supporting freedom of conscience but warning that the surge of Christian evangelism among Jews is becoming a major interreligious problem. West Coast militants, for their part, have been breaking up Jewish...
Jews of Silence by Elie Weisel, about Soviet Jewry. Hebrew Teacher's College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline...
...heterodox, rigidly disciplined Christianity of the Worldwide Church of God, that could mean anything. In Herbert Armstrong's theology, unknown to much of his public, the British and the Americans are among the ten lost Hebrew tribes, destined to fight -and succumb to-a renewed Holy Roman Empire probably led by Germany. Then a Chinese-Russian alliance will fight the battle of Armageddon with the victor. At first, Herbert Armstrong predicted the beginning of the end for the late 1930s. The most recent Apocalypse...