During the week covered by this review, we received 5 articles on the following subjects:
Christian Zionism
Jewish Attitudes Concerning Christians
Miscellaneous
Christian Zionism
Yediot Ahronot, September 9, 2014
As the holidays approach, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) continues its assistance by providing food and clothing to some 55,000 needy families, seniors, soldiers, and children, amounting to 11 million shekels. IFCJ president and founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein has promised increased assistance to these “weak sectors” of society that have been affected by cuts to the welfare budget, and stated that the contributions come from Christian lovers of Israel and Jews all over the world “who wish to strengthen Israeli society.”
Jewish Attitudes Concerning Christians
HaShikma LeMehadrin, September 3; Yom L’Yom, HaShavua b’Holon-Bat Yam, September 4, 2014
These articles provide additional reiterations of the story from the past two Media Reviews (September 3 and 9, 2014) concerning the Jehovah’s Witnesses conference that recently took place in Holon, in particular the shock of the anti-missionary activist organization Yad L’Achim that “15 Jews were baptized into Christianity.” Yad L’Achim calls the Jehovah’s Witnesses “a dangerous, anti-Semitic cult bent on destroying the Jewish people.” Guy Telem, speaking in the name of Yad L’Banim, the Holon auditorium where the conference took place, stated that Israel is a democratic country and that no crime was committed during the conference, and warned against incitement. Yad L’Achim, in response, stood behind their statements and expressed “disappointment” that some entities were “willing to put their heads in the sand in return for a rental fee” instead of looking out for “the good of the public.”
Miscellaneous
Yediot Ahronot, September 8, 2014
The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival, set to take place September 9–12, sees “revealing the city” as one if its goals. This is to be accomplished by listening to different prayers and sacred sounds from different city sectors. As part of the festival, attendees will view a variety of services, from hearing a muezzin, to meeting some of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic community, to a night walk in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, to meeting the King of Kings Assembly (founded in Jerusalem in the 1980s).