In the wake of incontrovertible evidence reaching Yad L’Achim that Christian missionaries have been sent to the border to identify Jews and offer them assistance as a way of getting them to join their churches in Israel, Yad L’Achim reached out to the local Jewish community in Moldova • Full Story
“Chosen People Ministries” – a missionary organization that was set up in the United States more than 100 years ago – turned to its Christian supporters this week with a request for assistance in absorbing Jewish families that escaped from Ukraine to Israel. In its request, the organization declares its intention to hold a large, centralized baptism for them on Erev Pesach, Yad L’Achim revealed • Full Story
The organization “Jews for J,” one of the main preaching arms of the “Messianic Jews” cult, recently opened an office in the heart of Yerushalayim aimed at getting Jews in the capital to convert out of their religion. Information on the office reached Yad L’Achim by way of classified documents from the cult, together with intensive field work on the part of Yad L’Achim’s countermissionary department. This information led to the precise location of the office, whose address was not publicized even in internal missionary publications • Full Story
Thanks to the efforts of MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) and Rabbi Yinon Azulai (Shas), the Knesset Finance Committee temporarily rejected an appeal by the J’s Witnesses cult to receive tax-exempt status. A permanent decision is expected shortly. The committee reached its decision after being presented with clear evidence that the cult preached to minors, in violation of the law • Full Story
A special investigation carried out by Yad L’Achim in recent months has culminated in the exposure of a non-Jewish Messianic family living for the past year in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in Yerushalayim. Yad L’Achim is now working to bring to the attention of the broader public the identity of the family of missionaries, and warning people to cut off all contact with them • Full Story
A father and son practising as Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. have been accused by anti-missionary investigators of being secret evangelical Christians. The two have been accepted and welcomed in a number of Orthodox Jewish communities in locations across the US.The claims over Michael and Calev Isaacson — who have changed their family name from Dawson — would cause disastrous halachic problems for the Jewish community if true • Full Story, Photos
Berel Grossbaum (Minnesota) to Chana Shmotkin (Detroit)
L’Chaim tonight in F.R.E.E.
Baby boy to: Shmuel and Esther Neft (nee Tyshenko) – Toronto.
Baby boy to: Menachem and Esty Sheinberger – Crown Heights
Baby girl to: Meir and Chanie Levinger (nee Richler) – Yerushalayim, Israel