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Many who are familiar with the Messianic movement are probably used to seeing "testimonies" of rabbis who came to Christianity. Usually these stories are from many decades ago, and often with questionable or false biographies. For instance "Rabbi" Leopold Cohn, an "Orthodox rabbi" who converted to Christianity, was never a real rabbi. In fact, his real name was Yitschak Joszovics and he was a Baptist minister. However, there are many current converts to Judaism, who were formerly ordained Christian ministers. Each of these individuals have publically discussed their conversion and had legitimate Christian ordination. In the case of Rabbi Asher Wade, he went from being an ordained Methodist minister to an ordained Orthodox rabbi! Here are links with the biographies of each of these former ordained Christian ministers, who are now Jews: Rabbi Asher Wade: Click Here Michael Flanagan: Click Here Gavriel Sanders: Click Here
Ahuva Gray: Click Here Nobutaka Hattori: Click Here
Tova Mordechai: Click Here Julie Galambush: Click Here Armando Quiros: Click Here John David Scalamonti: Click Here also Click Here Shlomo Ben Avraham Brunell: Click Here John Hove: Click Here also Click Here Yaakov Ephraim Parisi: Click Here Thomas Roper: Click Here Carlos Samuel Salas: Click Here Carole Le Faivre-Rochester,: Click Here Hector Flores: Click Here Moriyah Webster: Click Here So, the next time someone tells you that they heard of a "rabbi" who found Jesus many decades ago, tell them that you know modern Christian ministers who became Jews! There are many reasons why Jews do not accept Jesus, and the links below are some of the better explanations on this topic. Of course, if you have questions that are not covered on the links, you can always e-mail me with your questions. An Answer from Rabbi Stuart Federow Click Here An Answer from Rabbi Shraga Simmons Click Here Ask the Rabbi from Ohr Somayach Click Here An Answer from Rabbi Tovia Singer Click Here
There are a number of groups that provide Countermissionary Counseling. Here are links to a few of them: Alternatively, you can call them at 1-800-4PROOF1 with general questions about missionary claims.
Here are a number of great sites that counter missionaries and explain the differences in belief between Judaism and Christianity, including addressing the Biblical verses that missionaries try to use against the Jews and explaining why the missionaries are incorrect. For the most in-depth analysis of verse by verse questions, go to Messiah Truth (sections on Counter-Missionary: Multi-media training [this can be read without being "multi-media"], Knowing Your Orchard and Judaism's Answer), Jews for Judaism (in their Reference Section (please note that the Isaiah topics tend to be under "Suffering Servant" part of the "Proof Text" section) and the Q & A section of Outreach Judaism. Escape From Counterfeit Judaism Talking to Kids About Missionaries
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