During the week covered by this review, we received 8 articles on the following subjects:
Christians and the Holocaust
Anti-Missionary Attitudes
Israeli / Jewish Attitudes Concerning Christians / Christianity
Christians and the Holocaust
Various articles
As reported in the last review, Father Gregor Pawlowski, the Jewish bishop of Jaffa whose parents and siblings were murdered by the Nazis, passed away at the age of 91. Born in the town of Zamość in eastern Poland, which was home to about 4,000 Jews who were cruelly murdered over open pits during World War II, Father Gregor Pawlowski survived the war and grew up to become a Catholic priest. He immigrated to Israel and settled in Jaffa, where he served the Polish-speaking community for 38 years. He was buried as a Jew next to the mass grave in Poland where his mother and sisters are buried.
Anti-Missionary Attitudes
Various articles
A number of articles reported that Yad L’Achim “exposed a Messianic Gentile family that has been living in disguise” in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Argentinian family supposedly immigrated to Israel using a Jewish name, when in fact, they were not Jews. According to the articles, the family participated in missionary activity until they were exposed by Yad L’Achim.
Israeli / Jewish Attitudes Concerning Christians / Christianity
Star Darom, November 5, 2021
This was an interview with a representative of a Messianic organization which has been distributing a book entitled “The Prophetic Code”. In his opening paragraph, the reporter referred to the Disputation of Barcelona, a formal ordered medieval debate between representatives of Christianity and Judaism regarding the Holy Trinity, and stated that one must not be afraid to hear about others’ beliefs and protect one’s own faith. The person interviewed, who was not mentioned by name, explained the Messianic Jewish faith in Yeshua as Messiah, comparing it to the early disciples, and quoted scripture from Isaiah, Zechariah, and Micah as proof of Yeshua’s messiahship. The reporter ended with a statement that in the abovementioned Disputation, Rabbi Moshe Ben Nahman, also known as the Ramban, supposedly refuted the arguments that those prophecies were about Yeshua.