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aribJews for Jesus have opened a branch office in Brookline. To be precise, right in the middle of Coolidge Corner.
For the out-of-town folks, this is right in the middle of Jewish Boston, near all the Kosher restaurants, Judaica stores, and at least six synagogues of various denominations.
Jews for Jesus is a Christian group that aggresively targets Jews for conversion, all under the rubric of "It's okay to pray to Jesus and still be a Jew." As far as I know, all the denominations of Judaism call praying to Jesus "Christianity." Nothing necessarily wrong with it, but it ain't Judaism. On my way to work, I saw several of them passing out leaflets on Harvard Street. No, they weren't those friendly environmental activist kids from MassPIRG, they were wearing nicely coordinated "Jews for Jesus" T-shirts.
I'm all for free expression of religion, but when it comes to proselytizing at me or my co-religionists, I'll see that as an gauntlet that's been thrown to the ground, one I'll pick up and beat you around the intellectual head and shoulders with.
*sigh* Looks like I'll have to start carrying my Tanach with me in my workbag, just in case. (Translation alert: Tanach means Bible, not pepper-spray, though the idea's tempting... :-) )
I had more to this post, but can't remember it right now...
For the out-of-town folks, this is right in the middle of Jewish Boston, near all the Kosher restaurants, Judaica stores, and at least six synagogues of various denominations.
Jews for Jesus is a Christian group that aggresively targets Jews for conversion, all under the rubric of "It's okay to pray to Jesus and still be a Jew." As far as I know, all the denominations of Judaism call praying to Jesus "Christianity." Nothing necessarily wrong with it, but it ain't Judaism. On my way to work, I saw several of them passing out leaflets on Harvard Street. No, they weren't those friendly environmental activist kids from MassPIRG, they were wearing nicely coordinated "Jews for Jesus" T-shirts.
I'm all for free expression of religion, but when it comes to proselytizing at me or my co-religionists, I'll see that as an gauntlet that's been thrown to the ground, one I'll pick up and beat you around the intellectual head and shoulders with.
*sigh* Looks like I'll have to start carrying my Tanach with me in my workbag, just in case. (Translation alert: Tanach means Bible, not pepper-spray, though the idea's tempting... :-) )
I had more to this post, but can't remember it right now...