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Jewish anti-missionaries take on Messianic believers
Thursday, May 23, 2013 | Israel Today Staff
The ultra-Orthodox organization Yad L'Achim has long been a thorn in the side of Israel's Messianic Jewish community. Sometimes more than a thorn - Jack Teitel, the Jewish terrorist who almost killed Messianic youth Ami Ortiz, is believed to have strong ties to the group.
Now Yad L'Achim is targeting a blossoming Messianic community in the coastal city of Bat Yam. The local edition of the Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot reported earlier this month that Yad L'Achim had received many complaints from residents upset about receiving "missionary material."
According to the article, local Messianic believers had visited homes in the area to share their faith. Yad L'Achim backers quoted in the piece also took offense at the reported recent founding of a new Messianic congregation, which they tried to paint as a "cult-ish" and "secretive" enterprise.
"We have a problem dealing with this issue, because the meetings take place in a private residential home in one of the apartment buildings so that naturally the activity there is very hidden and secretive," said one rabbi.
Oded Raban, a local Messianic Jew, refuted such nonsense, telling the paper that “there is nothing inappropriate in the [Messianic community's] activities ... [there is] no truth in the claims that we behave in an underhand manner. And if it comes across that way, the only reason is that we face such extreme antagonism, that it doesn’t leave us with many options.”
Raban reiterated what many other Messianic Israelis have stressed before:
"We have tens of thousands of believers in this country, and we are all citizens of this state. We are loyal to it, serve in the army, give to it, but our worldview is slightly different from other Jews’, and for that reason, other Jews see us as an anomaly. We, as our Jewish brothers, believe in God and see Him as the center of everything in this world."
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Israel Today partners with US Christian media
Israel Today partners with US Christian media
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Jonathan David
At a time when all sorts of ground breaking and biblical activity is happening in Israel, there's a strong new connection between Israel and the United States. Israel Today, the only independent news agency in Israel run by Jewish believers in Yeshua (Jesus), has begun providing complimentary news service from the Holy Land to Christian radio stations in the United States.
Thus far, the complimentary audio news service from Israel Today has been a resounding success, and is now heard on over 120 Christian radio stations in the United States, reaching millions of listeners.
After 35 years of successful service in Israel's news industry, Israel Today is now able to provide daily news service that Christian radio listeners connect with and appreciate. The timing of the alliance appears to be perfect as more news of Israel's biblical past, present and future is unfolding right before our eyes as well as our ears.
"Israel Today is providing a professional news service that is helping our listeners learn more about the Holy Land," said John Geli of Life Talk Radio.
Dan Rosecrans of AM730 KDAZ said they "recently added Israel Today ... [and] It fits beautifully with our emphasis on the Holy Land and what is truly happening there. I love the daily updates that tell us the truth."
Horizon Radio has had "multiple listeners express gratitude for a daily Israel Today news update," said station manager Johnny Wall. "Keep up the great work!"
Family Life Radio's Amy Phillips said of the Israel Today updates that she was "very impressed with the quality of information that makes a different culture understandable."
But we didn't stop with radio! Israel Today has also teamed up with quality Christian and Messianic publications in the US to provide timely feature stories for their websites and magazines.
"Israel Today provides a unique and needed perspective on the news from the Middle East," said Joseph Farah, editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily.
Ari Hauben of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA) added, "Our ministry is honored to use and promote the Israel Today articles on a continual basis. What a blessing!"
Israel 'has had enough' of Syrian fire on Golan
Israel 'has had enough' of Syrian fire on Golan
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Israel Today Staff
Israeli and Syrian forces clashed in the Golan Heights on Tuesday in the most intense border incident since the start of Syria's civil war.
Syrian forces, both those belonging to the regime of Bashar Assad and rebel groups, have fired into the Israeli Golan Heights on a number of occasions over the past year. But until Tuesday, nearly all of those cross-border violations were classified as accidental.
For the first time in decades, Syrian officials on Tuesday confirmed that the Syrian army had purposely engaged Israeli troops on the border. The Syrians claimed to have destroyed an Israeli patrol vehicle, though Israel denied that it had suffered any casualties in the firefight.
Images published by the Hebrew press showed a Syrian force firing into Israel, and then being destroyed by an Israeli missile.
Shortly after the battle, Israeli army chief General Benny Gantz visited the area and stated that Israel "has had enough" of the cross-border attacks, and will make Assad pay.
It is still widely believed that Assad has no desire to provoke a full-scale war with Israel, knowing full well that he cannot fight both the Jewish state and the mounting rebel threat inside his own country. However, Gantz and other Israeli officials expect isolated cross-border incidents to increase significantly in the coming weeks.
* PHOTO: IDF chief Gen. Benny Gantz surveys the Golan border region.
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