New York – My time with evangelical Christians has made me a better Jew,” says David Brog, the executive director of Christians United For Israel (CUFI). “It made me take my faith more seriously.” Evangelicals also take Judaism seriously, a conviction that over the last 20 years has variously surprised, pleased, and frightened Jews across the American political spectrum, even as the country’s massive evangelical movement has proven to be Israel’s unshakable ally. While the current occupant of the White House and his Jewish advisors appear eager for any excuse to keep Jerusalem at arm’s distance, evangelicals continue to love the Jewish state.
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We’re sitting in the lobby of a Georgetown hotel, and Brog is a bit jet-lagged after just returning from a trip to Israel, where he escorted a group of 600 evangelicals. For many of them it was their first trip to the Holy Land. “Even as a Jew,” says Brog, “I can appreciate the excitement in the eyes of my Christian friends as they trace the trajectory of Jesus’s life.”
Brog’s evangelicals meet Israel’s leaders, like President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Brog’s cousin and Israel’s most decorated soldier. “He was one of my heroes even before I knew we were related,” explains the 43-year-old lawyer who looks more like a mid-career Christian Slater than his cousin, the military hero.
Nobody should be uneasy but wait for rapture
John Hagee is an antisemitic madman.. i don’t get why we accept his support. Even John Mccain said publicly he didn’t want anything to do with him.
Uneasy for because of what? Nothing will happen and let them wait while they continue to support us. Obama and Clinton want us dead now.
Where were they during the Shoah?
I am not uneasy about their support of israel, they have their reasons and they are making the right choice, if the arabs had control over israel they would only let muslims in, just like they only let muslims into mecca and on the temple mount. Why is it that arabs can walk around freely anywhere in israel but people of other religions cannot go to arab holy sites? Why the double standard? I supported Obama’s campaign for president but I will never make that mistake again, he is essentially supporting his muslim brothers even though they are racists and terrorists, I am switching to Republican because Israel’s security is my first priority.
Should we wait for the economic and political support of the chareidi world?
Mencahem Begin when asked about Christians supporting Israel, said a brilliant thing. “We have so few friends, we can not afford to be choosy”.
הגמרא מספרת על רבי חנינא בן דוסא שראה יהודים עולים עם בוכורים ולמד מהם ושיפץ אבן להעלות לבניית המקדש
עכ”פ רואים שאפשר לעשות מצווה על פי השראת אחרים ואולי גם מעכו”ם
many of these Xtian Ministers are actively involved in J for J and other such missionary activity to “show Jews the light”… and whatever. I was once in Haifa and J for J and having a parade. This is the product of these Evangelicals.
Also anybody else out there hate when these people talk about “Judeo-Christian” values? Seriously if a Xtian person said that 200 years ago, he would be killed. Now all of a sudden we share the same value system? Judaism shares similar value systems to Islam (yes they took it from us so did Xtianity). That is why Muslim people live along Ave J and have their neighborhood starting from Ave H. Muslims feel more comfortable living along side Jews than Xtians because we truly share the same value system.
Who cares if they think we’re going to hell because we’re not Christian? Most Jews think I’m going to hell because I vote Republican.
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
To #’s 28 and 29.. First off I agree with both of you about our false friends. Wouldn’t it be something if their Jewish messiah comes back some day and tells all the goyim “fooled you didn’t I”
They are supporting the state of Israel because they believe it will bring about their messiah yoshka. This should be further proof that Zionism is heresy that the State of Israel’s most enegetic supporters are the same people calling for the conversion of Jewish people to Christianity Chas vshalom