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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (458320)	9/13/2003 11:33:50 AM
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What's the big deal about Jews who accept Jesus? Jews hate Christians, and Jewish Christians are considered blasphemers from collective Jewish neurosis and must be"hunted down."] Toronto Jews Fight Jews For Jesus, by Bill Gladstone, Baltimore Jewish Times, SEPTEMBER 08, 2003 "A battle for Jewish souls is being waged across Canada's largest city as Jewish activists here work to counter the effects of an aggressive missionary campaign launched by Jews for Jesus. The multimillion-dollar international Christian missionary group kicked off a three-week missionary campaign on Aug. 25, called Behold Your God, an intensive blitz targeting the city's 175,000 Jews. The Jesus campaign, which will last through Sept. 14, involves newspaper ads, billboards, leaflets, a telemarketing-style phone campaign and door-to-door canvassing in Jewish neighborhoods. The missionaries also are distributing free copies of a video produced by their organization that focuses on Holocaust survivors who have converted to Christianity. Jewish groups have mobilized in response. The Jewish countermissionary organization Jews for Judaism mounted a comprehensive campaign to defend against the missionaries. The group designated Saturday as a Stand Up for Judaism Shabbat, urging rabbis across southern Ontario to address the missionary problem from the pulpit. In conjunction with the Canadian Jewish Congress, the organization also held a Stand Up for Judaism community rally on Sunday. B'nai Brith Canada also launched its own "Proud to Be Jewish" campaign to warn unsuspecting Jewish community members about the missionaries. "This isn't about free speech," said the group's president, Rochelle Wilner. "Targeted missionizing — especially when done in a manner calculated to deceive the unsuspecting — is offensive to our community," she said. The name Jews for Jesus makes about as much sense as Baptists for Buddha or Catholics for Krishna, she said. The Toronto arm of the Baltimore-based Jews for Judaism has distributed nationally an eight-page brochure, "Missionary Impossible," to "help inoculate the Jewish community against the missionary threat," said Julius Ciss, executive director of Jews for Judaism in Canada and a former Jews for Jesus member. Additionally, signs telling the missionaries to get lost have been distributed to Jewish households around the city ... While Jews for Jesus hands out pink fliers urging belief in Jesus, the countermissionary group hands out blue fliers highlighting the message, "You can't believe in Jesus and still be Jewish." At the same time, the organization is sending rapid-response teams out on patrol and established a hotline for people to call if they spot the Christian missionaries working on the street. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," Ciss said. "If we don't know where they are, we have to hunt them down, and it's a big city — we have to drive around and look at all the big intersections. But half the time we do find them."