Introducing Alex Artovski – old habits die hard!

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Introducing Alex Artovski, reportedly a former Soviet policeman, former Israeli policeman and current head of Yad L’Achim’s anti-Missionary department.        

Alex Artovski head of Yad L'Achim's anti-mission department

 A few years ago Artovski once boasted to the Orthodox newspaper HaModia that he uses all the tricks of his former trade as a policeman in the oppressive Soviet regime. It is a bit odd then that Yad L’Achim are considering taking Calev Myers, a Messianic Jewish lawyer, to court for describing their tactics as similar to such totalitarian regimes when Artovski made a similar claim himself!          

Artovski (Artovsky), in his late forties, early fifties, uses various techniques to wage war against Messianic Jews and missionaries, amongst them included his going undercover and pretending to be interested in Yeshua. He targets the weak inside the congregation and then intensively works on them to ‘save their souls’.         

Artovski boasted that he has paid ’informants’ in nearly all Israel’s Messianic congregations as well as informants abroad in the upper echelons of the Messianic  movement.       

 Yad L’Achim’s Facebook page  state: The Jewish soul is a precious, all-too-rare resource, and we are not prepared to give up on even a single one. .. There are no “lost causes.” Yad L’Achim will continue its rescue activities, together with its efforts at Jewish outreach, as long as the problem of missionaries and Jewish-Arab marriage…”   Yad L’Achim really believes it has soul rights on all Jews and will do anything to bring secular, atheist, Reform, agnostic, Messianic Jewish souls to Orthodox Judaism, and the Rebbe!

Yad L’Achim have been linked to the Ami-bomber by Teitel himself who claims he was one of their volunteer activists, a claim Yad L’Achim are predictably quick to refute. However such was the case when Yad L’Achim switched stories when a Chabadnik Yad L’Achim volunteer Raphael Miriashvili, 25, of Lod was found murdered in Israel.       

 Artovski is no stranger to both sides of the law and knows the terrain well.      

Alex Artovski, head of Yad L'Achim's anti-missionary department

In 2007 Artovsky and other Yad L’Achim activists were arrested by the Israeli police and later released after being questioned about the abduction of an Arab man who had been in a relationship with a Jewish woman.      

Artovski 'on duty' for Yad L'Achim with gun in holster - old habits die hard!

 Artovsky will appear in court in March alongside the Chief Rabbi of Beersheva to answer charges that they were involved in instigating a riot at a Messianic Jewish place a worship in Beersheva, December 2005.      

Here is an in-depth interview with Artovski on his conversion to Chabad Lubavitch Judaism, his veneration of the Rebbe and entry into Yad L’Achim in 1995, which he says was an organisation precious to the  Rebbe. The Rebbe blessed Rabbi Lifshitz, the director of Yad L’Achim and said he’d win all his battles. When Artovski is asked where he was born he answers that a Jew is born on the day that he sees the Rebbe. The Rebbe, he says, still rules the world today!  

He talks about missionaries as the “apostles of Satan” as he tells the story of a boy in a Chabad school with a kippah with the Yehi (“Yehi Adoneinu Moreinu veRabbeinu – Melech HaMeshiach – LeOlam vaEd”) written on it, being secretly videoed in a Messianic Jewish congregation by a Yad L’Achim spy. Artovski and his informant hunt down the boy and find out he was taken by his grandmother, who is his legal guardian since his mother is still in Russia, however since he goes to a Chabad school, Artovski believes that he has soul rights over the child more than the child’s own family and calls him into his office to present him with the video evidence, causes the child to cry and puts him off going to anymore meetings with his grandmother. (video in Hebrew).

    

Artovski’s Yad L’Achim believe all Jews belong to them and they can and will do whatever it takes, even if it takes them to the edge of the law, to convert them to Chabad Judaism to see the Rebbe and be born-again Jews. 

     

41 thoughts on “Introducing Alex Artovski – old habits die hard!”

  2. This reminds me of the Witch-hunting that was not abolished in England until 1682!

    “Throw her in the river! If she sinks and drowns that will prove she is not a witch; if she swims, we will know the devil is assisting her. Pull her out and burn her to death, for the Church does not like bloodshed!”

    Except these days the Messianic Jew is the witch treated like some consort with Satan. Sink or swim we’re the apostles of Satan!

    Yad L’Achim bring the Jewish community in to disrepute, not the Messianic Jews.

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  6. I think his USSR gestapo past has caught the attention of freedom loving Jews everywhere. They dont like former kapos of any stripe. That is why they are translating this all over the globe.

    It means a lot of Jewish non-Christians are reading Rosh and using the info.

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    • Actually, it’s been a good day thus far.

      I was wondering – with all your nearly constant blogging and commenting, where do you find the time to study / work? This is one reason I didn’t start a blog of my own – I just wouldn’t get anything else worthwhile done or keep a family.

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      • This is one reason I didn’t start a blog of my own – I just wouldn’t get anything else worthwhile done or keep a family.

        You spend a fair bit of time commenting on them!

      • I comment on two blogs with any regularity, and two others very seldom (have not made a comment on them in weeks). So, hardly a “rash,” Gev. More like a soothing ointment FOR a rash.

      • “Btw I’d like to see you making these comments about not doing any work to the yeshiva bokers!”

        Hey, at least they are “STUDYING” and probably not blogging:). I do however have a problem with those “bokers” who may “studying” just to avoid civil or family responsibilities. I would not hesitate making a comment if I saw this type of hypocrisy being defended by someone (but I would not make a blog post just to say something derogatory against the bokers).

      • Let the guy who refuses to work not be given free food. The nation of Israel would be decidedly much better off following that policy.

      • This would force the anti-missionary paid riot squad to get jobs and work for a real living instead of living like leeches off of the Israeli taxpayers.

        Let the guy who refuses to work not be given free food. The nation of Israel would be decidedly much better off following that policy.

      • Maimonides had a job, Rashi had three jobs, so it doesn’t make sense that the haredim don’t work.

        I guess jihad against Messianic Jews is a sexy alternative to round-the-clock studies.

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  11. re Yeshiva students, they get around 3000.00 Israeli shekel NIS monthly stipend from the government to do so, tax free. This in a country where a teacher gets paid 6000 NIS a month with a degree and masters behind them.

    I don’t know where these above comments are coming from but I don’t see the point. This site probably only takes a half hour a day to maintain, nothing really. You could have a full time job as well, or be a student full time. Who does not find the time for things they like?

    Re the article above. Immigrants like him who come late to Judaism usually are the worst and the most severe in their “anti” , I’ve met a few. They are not rational thinkers but full of passion and emotion, you can not ever talk logically or rationally with them.

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    • Dona you should be alarmed at the waste of Israeli money paying able-bodied males NOT to work. The volunteer work done by the keepers of this web portal are done for their own reasons and at their own expense.

      Part of the curse of orthodox extremists upon modern Israel is the economic harm caused by the 3000 monthly per lazy non-producer. Let him who will not work, not eat.

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