Christians, Jews & Israel

Evangelicals have “become very wonderful friends, probably the best friends we have in the world today,” pronounced Rabbi Shlomo Riskin at this evening’s session on “Christians, Jews, and the State of Israel” at the Tikvah Fund in New York.

They have “shown important empathy” and have a “very real sense of camaraderie with the Jews and Jewish theology,” Riskin said of Evangelicals. But he noted they are “more and more targeted” by Palestinian advocacy and the “great lie” that Israel is “running an apartheid state,” to which some young social justice Evangelicals are susceptible. And he recalled that the head of the Palestinian Authority attended Christmas mass in Bethlehem last year in a bid for Western Christian sympathy.

http://juicyecumenism.com/2014/03/31/christians-jews-israel/?utm_source=Flocknote&utm_medium=email&utm_term=10&utm_content=christians-jews-israel%2F&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Wrap%20Up%204-3-14