The JewishIsrael site was set up to ‘protect’ Israel from ‘religious destruction’. It insists on ‘exposing’ something which everyone already knows - Christian and Messianic Jewish beliefs include a ‘go-and-tell’ message. But where are JewishIsrael coming from?
JewishIsrael link to a number of religious blogs: Esser Agaroth, Tomer Devorah, The Key to Redemption, Truth About Moshiach and Esav Exposed.
Interestingly, the Truth About Moshiach blogger ‘Bar Kochba’ (ironically named after a false Jewish Messiah) and Key to Redemption‘s GeulaGirl do not link to each other as GeulaGirl is offended by Bar Kochba’s friendships with non-Jews (see this thread).
On Esav Exposed, blogger Devash celebrates Israel’s deportation of a Thai Christian visiting his girlfriend, writing:
To the airport officials: GREAT JOB! KOL HAKAVOD!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
We learn on Tomer Devorah that Devash is the mother of GeulaGirl. GeulaGirl is opposed to taking Gentiles as friends, claiming that relations with non-Jews are prohibited. GeulaGirl speaks of “the prohibition against social contact with the non-Jew”. GeulaGirl identifies Christians and the West as ‘Esav’, and predicts Esav’s destruction:
Esav represented by western civilization is coming down. Hashem is bringing them down. This must happen for Ya’aqov (Israel) to rise up and take his rightful place. Anyone “attached” to Esav (America, Europe, western values and philosophy, etc.) will go down also. It’s just a fact. Detach yourselves, financially, physically and spiritually before it is too late. Our only hope is in Eretz Yisrael and Hashem.
GeulaGirl identifies ‘Esav’ with Christianity:
I want to focus on the separation from Esav (the christian world) particularly the ones who claim to “love Israel”. Not only is our connection to them the most dangerous, because most Jews do not recognize them as a threat, but it is completely in our power to sever, as opposed to Yishmael which is much more complicated. When we left galut, that should have been the end of our connection to Esav but instead we brought them, along with their foreign culture, ideas and idolatry with us.
JewishIsrael have also identified ‘Esav’ with Christianity:
“And Esav spurned the birthright.” (25:34)
Well, Parashat Toldot is this week, so Jewish Israel is rightfully dedicating some posts to the “Birthright Parsha” – a story of youths and deception – unfolding right here and now in Israel.
Geula Girl believes that religious Jews must separate themselves from Westerners, Muslims and secular Jews in order for Messiah to come:
We must separate ourselves from Esav, from Yishmael and from the Erev Rav [lit.: mixed multitude], this is our mission.
Regarding the ‘Erev Rav’, JewishIsrael-linked blog Esser Agaroth pushed a conspiracy theory about the arrest of Jack Teitel, writing:
No matter how much apologizing the mamachtim do, the Erev Rav-controled, Israeli government still sees this as the primary, impending threat to its control over Israel.
This, I say, is the real story. Ya’akov Teitel is only a distraction, allowing the Erev Rav to continue its anti-Torah, anti-Eretz Yisrael operations, or an excuse for incitement (wag the dog), desperately trying to maintain its un-Jewish control. Look at it either way you choose.
On GeulaGirl’s mother’s Tomer Devorah blog, Devash boasts of a new website against Jews who believe in Yeshua (“Yeshu”), using disturbing terminology:
The Jewish neshama comes humbly and submissively, requesting. The Erev Rav come haughtily and arrogantly, demanding. While the Jewish neshamas convert back into the family, these refuse and insist that they be “recognized” and “accepted” as they are. They intend to come to Eretz Yisrael and “reclaim” their “rightful heritage.” They promote a new religion called Judeo-xianity. They use this symbol …
representing Jew and xian coming together to form “One New Man” (the “Judeo-Xian?) observing the Torah, living in the Land, and accepting Yeshu as the “Mashiach.”
Most unfortunately, many good Jews and others, maybe not so good, are joining with these people, whether in a misguided attempt to rectify them I cannot say, but it is playing with fire in a room full of gas fumes.
…there is a fourth kind: `and they have mingled (in Hebrew, Vayitarvu, related to the term Erev Rav) with the nations and learned from their deeds’ – these are themselves Jews who adhered to the `erev rav and became like them…and this fourth kind is the most difficult of them all, and they are our brothers who have soured“ – (Imre No`am, his commentary to B’rakhot 54)
This is as far as I can go with this subject for now. B’ezrat Hashem, I am working on a major project with regard to this, an expose of sorts, which will require its own website with many references and resources. I am available by email for any specific questions you may have and as the material becomes available online, I will make mention of it here.
JewishIsrael is endorsed by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman of Beth Jacob, Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Rabbi Sholom Gold – the Rabbi Emeritus of Kehilat Zichron Yosef in Har Nof, Jerusalem. Gold is also the Dean of the Avrom Silver Jerusalem College for Adults.
Why are these men endorsing a site which promotes the blogs of anti-Gentile racists?
And why does Richard Landes endorse JewishIsrael, as is evident here?
It gets worse: JewishIsrael have also assisted Americans for a Safe Israel and Manhigut Yehudit.
Messianic Jews can take comfort from the fact that they are not hated because of what they do or what they say, but because of how they are perceived within JewishIsrael‘s own ideology and assumptions.
So what are JewishIsrael aiming for exactly? Do JewishIsrael‘s eager contributors hate all non-Orthodox Jews, or just ones who believe in Jesus?
The same blogs linked to by JewishIsrael promote the idea that the Moshiach is coming soon, and through ‘separation’, redemption (geula) will be achieved. The Key to Redemption links to the site of Aish HaTorah rabbi Rabbi Pinchas Winston, who thinks 4/5ths of Jews will die in an apocalyptic holocaust – an even higher estimate than the 2/3rds proposed by Christian fundamentalists whom JewishIsrael oppose so much.
Tomer Devorah links to Jewish End of Days and Dreaming of Moshiach. The latter blog has previously claimed that the Jewish year 5769 ( a year which ended in September 2009) was the guaranteed year of geula. Tomer Devorah also links to the Jewish Fist, a website which describes itself thus:
The Jewish Fist is also a warning to the enemies of the Almighty, whether it be the Arab Amalakites, or the mixed multitude within the Jewish community. The Jewish Fist has risen, and when it descends, G-d help you!
TheJewishFist advocates the death penalty in certain circumstances for missionaries, proposing:
Missionaries & cults will be forbidden to enter the country. Prosletyzing will result in long term imprisonment and/or state sanctioned death in extenuating circumstances.
Jewish terrorist Jack Teitel, who attacked Arabs, homosexuals, Christians, left-wingers and Messianic Jews saw himself as an emissary of God who wanted to establish the kingdom of Judea and Samaria.
Earlier this year, Leah Ortiz, mother of one of Teitel’s terrorism victims Ami Ortiz, warned:
The newspapers report, and journalists have told us, about an Orthodox group who hold to the doctrine of what is called “Redemption” which claims that the reason the coming of the Messiah has been delayed is because of the tolerance of the State of Israel for Christians, left wingers and Homosexuals. All of these groups are classified as false prophets that have to be dealt with.
Leah Ortiz has also commented:
We’ve been asked if anti-human rights groups like Yad L’ achim and http://www.jewishisrael.com/, which are dedicated to demonizing and harassing Messianic Jews, were involved. I will say that Teitel is a perfect example of a man that has taken their ideology and message of hate and suspicion, and has taken it to the next level of acting out that message.
Yet JewishIsrael have been afforded the oxygen of publicity by Arutz Sheva journalist Hillel Fendel.
In the light of the Teitel’s arrest and indictment, law-abiding citizens should be very concerned by those who see a conspiracy in his arrest or perpetuate an ideology which made his terrorism possible.
Posted by Yeze.
Have been reading on JewishIsrael and discovered something most revealing. The website members cannot agree among themselves about what it means to be a Jew!
All they agree upon is that they reject the Messiah. How revealing. How self-defeating. The must know that if some of the more radical among them prevail, the rest will be excluded from Israel. That surely accounts for the political paralysis and the defeat of their agenda in the Knesset.
Ah, well you have it nailed it then Ken. To be a ‘real Jew’ is to do with biological ancestry and the rejection of Jesus as the Messiah. Simples.
I just love the fact GeulaGirl won’t be friends with BarKochba because he’s friends with Gentiles. He might give her the goy lurgi!
Well it VERY contagious, just like belief in Jesus, you merely have to be in the same room as a Christian and you might fall under the spell.
“All they agree upon is that they reject the Messiah. ”
Errr… wrong. They don’t reject the Messiah, they just reject the messiah as Christians have presented him to Jews for the last two thousand years. They are blinded to him at this time because in their mind his followers has brought just about nothing but evil to them (and history sadly proves that). Instead of rediculing the Jews as you and others have done here in post after post, bordering on anti-semitism (which is being justified by opposition to “antimissionaries”), you should repent on your knees. G-d will vindicate his people from the mockers in the nations in the end when he turns away unrighteousness in Jacob and restores Israel to the head of the nations.
In the first century there were many thousands (some say even up to a million) Jewish followers of Messiah in Jerusalem alone, and thousands of them were Pharisees, scribes and priests (and they remain such after recognizing Him, including Shaul/Paul).
Gene, Yeshua was rejected by the Sanhedrin long before his so-called followers started the shameful history of antisemitic violence and supression of Jewish people.
You, as you probably know, as a follower of Yeshua, are considered as a meshumad commiting avoda zarah and to try explain away rejection of Yeshua simplistically as a reaction to Christian antistmitism is not an accurate reflection of history. Yeshua is rejected primarily because of a theological decision made by the Sanhedrin 2,000 years ago and rabbinic authorities are still bound by that ruling. But you know this already Gene!
“Gene, Yeshua was rejected by the Sanhedrin long before his so-called followers started the shameful history of antisemitic violence and supression of Jewish people.”
Yes, Yeshua has been rejected by the leadership at the time (though hundreds of thousands, and more by some estimates, have accepted him). However, there was a clear purpose for that – this brought about the salvation of the Gentiles, and of course, in Yeshua’s own words about his persecutors is that they “don’t know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34)”
But much has occurred since then, and then is not now anymore. What we have now are nearly two thousand years of hatred in Yeshua’s name and persecution by his followers – a total misrepresentation of Jewish Messiah, turning him into an enemy of the Jews, a curse not a blessing. In light of that, the historic Jewish aversion to Christianity, Christians and well-meaning missionaries seeking to turn Jews into Baptists (or whatever) is justifiable (considering that we are to judge people “by their fruits”.) Therefore, I do not judge the Orthodox or even the heredi – I understand them and their reaction to what they view as foreign “idolatry”, which is partly based on truth (ever been inside an Eastern Orthodox or Catholic church?) and rejection of what they view as a theological impossibility and outright heresy – G-d coming down to earth in man’s flesh.
Yeshua will remedy and heal the spiritual wounds of Israel when he returns.
Gene,
” Instead of rediculing the Jews… ”
Sorry. You are right in my case. I don’t like to have to admit this is so. My intent is decidedly NOT to ridicule those who persecute us, but I have been bothered by the tone of some of my own posts lately. Other non-Christians called me on this a year ago on another forum.
Did not Paul warn us to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves”? May me speech and posts be gentle and respectful.
I apprecite that, Ken.
What really bothers is I don’t think the tone expressed sometimes here (and elsewhere) is not at all helpful in conveying our love for the Jewish people – yes, ESPECIALLY those ones who hate us (I am AWARE that I am TOO hated by some of them because of my faith in Yeshua, no matter my striving to live a covenant faithful Jewish life). It sure doesn’t sound like turning the other cheek to those who persecute us, those who set out to be our enemies – and the Jewish people, my own people, my flesh and blood, are not my enemies – they are my family (yes, even the heredis who are derided by the seculars as “backward”).
This has nothing to do with me living in a comfortable America. I lived in antisemitic part of Ukraine for almost half of my life – I know firsthand what’s it like to be hated and persecuted – as a Jew, and I personally and my family have experienced violence and constant ridicule because of us being Jewish. I doubt that most American Jews ever experienced that. And yet, I have no anger for the Gentiles – and neither do members of my family.
They don’t reject the Messiah, they just reject the messiah as Christians have presented him to Jews for the last two thousand years.
They reject Christians because they are Gentiles!!
“They reject Christians because they are Gentiles!!”
Tell that to the Gentile proselytes to Judaism, who joined our people throughout history and continue to do so.
Of course, this has nothing to do with race, but with perceived SPIRITUAL condition of the Gentiles (as something lesser than that of Jews, especially if the former is steeped in paganism). But if one thinks about this, are such views really that much different that the views of many”born-again” believers, who view the unsaved (non-Christians) as pagans who are “lost”and spiritually inferior (the nice and endearing word commonly used is “unregenerate”), should be avoided as intimate friends, can’t be intermarried with or even partnered in business with?
Barring some who may be plain nutty (as Yeze puts it) , some Jews (especially the Orthodox) may reject Christians because of history of persecution AND because they consider the Christian faith as bordering on idolatry (go ahead, and try to explain to Orthodox that Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians’ veneration of statues and icons inside the churches that dot the land of Israel has nothing to do with your particular expression of Christianity). Perhaps many of them would have accepted Yeshua had they lived in the first century (as many devout Jews did), but they will certainly accept him when he returns and reveals himself once again as a JEWISH Messiah.
Instead of rediculing the Jews as you and others have done here in post after post, bordering on anti-semitism (which is being justified by opposition to “antimissionaries”), you should repent on your knees. G-d will vindicate his people from the mockers in the nations in the end when he turns away unrighteousness in Jacob and restores Israel to the head of the nations.
You think these fruitcakes are real Jews? You think God is going to make these guys the head of the nations? Your vision of Israel is totally different from mine, Gene. Where’s your hope of Israel’s spiritual restoration? Would you want to live in a theocracy run by GeulaGirl and Devash?
Go meet some normal Jews, or go read what it actually says in the Bible and the Talmud. I think it says somewhere that God is the creator of all humans, not just Jews.
In the first century there were many thousands (some say even up to a million) Jewish followers of Messiah in Jerusalem alone, and thousands of them were Pharisees, scribes and priests (and they remain such after recognizing Him, including Shaul/Paul).
Yep, and JewishIsrael would gladly have them all stoned to death, wouldn’t they?
If you feel I’m misrepresenting them, why not ask them yourself?
Email:
info@jewishisrael.com
“You think these fruitcakes are real Jews? You think God is going to make these guys the head of the nations?”
Sure I do, in due time – G-d usually does something we humans least expect. I suspect that he will do something very special specifically with those you discount, just as he did with Shaul, who was a Pharisee and a “strictest sect [heredi of today] of this religion”. He will redirect their zealousness for G-d by upgrading it with a knowledge of Yeshua as the Messiah.
And of course, as you probably know, should Yeshua return soon, as it says in NT, “all Israel shall be saved”, which I presume would include the “fruitcakes” (as you call these Jews) who Messiah will come to redeem.
“Your vision of Israel is totally different from mine, Gene. Where’s your hope of Israel’s spiritual restoration? Would you want to live in a theocracy run by GeulaGirl and Devash?”
Read the beginning of this reply.
Totally, but whilst they are opposed to us, we should criticise their discriminatory actions and the beliefs which justify them.
I do not think of these guys as representative of any Jewish nation other than the one in their heads: formed out of fear of others and trust in the words of Meir Kahane.
Gene
We are not ridiculing Jews, we are ridiculing ludicrous & hateful prejudice.
As far as I am concerned, this blog, of which I am supporter, is a blog run by Jews, so I am not likely to have anti-semitic tendencies.
Absolutely.
“I am not likely to have anti-semitic tendencies.”
Stuart, that’s good to know.
By resorting to libel, slander and radical promulgation of xenophobic doctrines in Israel, “JewishIsrael” and its compadres prove the weakness of their arguments. This is a sign of clear frustration. If what they believe made sense, a normal democratic dialogue would suffice.
Since the state of Israel is a western democracy, with open minded thinkers, and a healthy inter-faith dialogue, reality is “JewishIsrael”s worst enemy. The vast majority of Israeli Jews remember what it was like to be a slandered, persecuted minority in the gola, hence this extremist mindset just will not catch.
“a healthy inter-faith dialogue, reality is “JewishIsrael”s worst enemy. The vast majority of Israeli Jews remember what it was like to be a slandered, persecuted minority in the gola, hence this extremist mindset just will not catch.”
Thanks Mendel C. well said.
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