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Fast Forward Michigan GOP candidate who was raised Jewish now says she’s a Messianic Jew
Lena Epstein, who is running for chair of the state GOP, said in a video that she has been 'baptized' and is now a 'Jewish Messianic believer of Christ'
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Culture How Doug Mastriano is embracing Messianic Judaism to deflect accusations of antisemitism
Blowing shofars at rallies and including blessings from Messianic rabbis, Christians are trying to define what it means to be a Jew
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News Exclusive: Trump impeachment lawyer Jay Sekulow says ‘I’ve never felt not Jewish’
Jay Sekulow, the Bar Mitzvah boy who converted to Christianity, became one of the nation’s leading evangelical legal advocates and is now co-leading President Trump’s impeachment-defense team, said in an exclusive interview that he has no idea how he was selected for the role other than by “God’s hand.” Sekulow, who along with the White…
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Fast Forward An Anti-Semite Tried To Bomb A ‘Messianic Synagogue’
After a Las Vegas security guard was arrested last week and charged with planning to bomb an unnamed local synagogue, many in the local Jewish community wondered if they could have been targeted. The answer, it turns out, is a bit more complicated. The synagogue Conor Climo allegedly planned to attack was Lev HaShem Messianic…
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Fast Forward Denver Messianic Jewish Church Vandalized With Swastika
A Messianic Jewish church in Denver was vandalized on Tuesday with a spray-painted swastika and other graffiti, the Denver Post reported Wednesday. The vandalism took place at Church in the City-Beth Abraham, which according to its website holds a contemporary Christian service on Sundays and a Messianic Shabbat service on Saturdays. A suspect was arrested…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Gets Jews For Jesus ‘Rabbi’ To Pray For Pittsburgh Synagogue Victims
Vice President Mike Pence was joined by a Jews for Jesus ‘rabbi’ who prayed for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at a Republican campaign rally in Michigan on Monday. Messianic Jewish Rabbi Loren Jacobs of Synagogue Shema Yisrael intoned prayers to “Jesus the Messiah” and denounced the “hate inspired shooting in synagogue in…
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Fast Forward Jewish Republican Defends Inviting Messianic Rabbi To Pray For Pittsburgh With Pence
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lena Epstein, a Jewish Republican nominee for Congress in Michigan, defended inviting a Messianic Jew to an event that starred Vice President Mike Pence, to say a prayer marking the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue. “I invited the prayer because we must unite as a nation — while embracing our religious differences…
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Community Did Jews For Jesus Get Something Right About Jewish Millennials?
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. I know, I didn’t think I’d be writing that headline today either. But a Jews for Jesus study may have actually made an interesting insight about Jewish millennials. What am I talking about? Jews for Jesus recently commissioned a study surveying 599 Jews born from…
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