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Important update from Michael Brown: The anti-missionary group Yad L’Achim is now spreading the lie that South Korean tourists carried the coronavirus into Israel and infected Jewish youth at the Messianic center. Seriously! And this lie is now spreading through the news. Your help is needed!
The contrast between the two videos is stark. The first is terribly disturbing. The second is tremendously inspiring. The first shows security camera footage of some young thugs vandalizing a building and assaulting a female worker. The second, which is an interview I conducted, shows the female worker and her father expressing their love and concern for the thugs. That is the power of Messiah’s grace in Jerusalem. And that is the opposition faced by Messianic Jews living there.
The community that was attacked is called Adullam. It focuses on compassionate, humanitarian outreach to hurting Israelis, including ultra-Orthodox Jews and those who have left that community. It also serves at-risk Israelis from other backgrounds.
But because of its effective outreach to religious Jews, it has come under intense fire, with a well-known radical inciting some young people to go on the attack.
As reported in Kehila News, “Members of Lehava, a violent anti-assimilation organization led by Ben-Zion Gopstein – a former disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahana – have been attacking a safe house for at-risk youth which is operated by a Messianic family.”
Michael, who manages the safe house, tells the story.
“When they came, during opening hours, we asked them to leave and said that we have three little children here. They didn’t care. They left and came back throwing bricks and stones at us. One flew right by one of our heads.”
But that was not the end. The thugs returned again, ultimately knocking out the windows with bricks and rocks as well as carrying out at least one physical assault.
Thankfully, with security cameras just installed, the last attack was captured on video. As for how the police will respond, that remains to be seen.
Does all this confirm the worst suspicions of the anti-Semites? Does it prove how evil “the rabbis” are? Does this point to the fundamentally corrupt nature of “the Jews”?
Certainly not.
There are bad apples in every religion, including Judaism.
There are corrupt leaders in every religion, including Judaism.
And there are thugs in every nation, including Israel.
The vast majority of rabbis would not support a violent attack on a Messianic Jewish center, let alone one with women and children inside.
And the vast majority of Israelis, most of whom are not religious, would be appalled at such an attack.
SOURCE: Charisma News
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