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May. 19th, 2006 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingThe organisation "Jews For Jesus" sends 80,000 DVDs concealed as orthodox Jewish scripture, attempting to convert the Hasidim by tricking them into watching propaganda.
EDIT: Eric has corrected my assumption of Judaism as exclusively a religious phenomenon..
EDIT: Eric has corrected my assumption of Judaism as exclusively a religious phenomenon..
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Date: 2006-05-19 02:51 pm (UTC)The "Jews for Jesus" organization began as an organization of ethnic jews who converted to or were born into Christianity who wanted to preserve their ethnic culture. And, as a non-practicing Jew (or even an atheist Jew) is still considered a Jew by pretty much everyone involved, it's fair to say they're correct.
So, it's not that Jews for Jesus aren't Jews. They are. They don't, however, follow the Jewish faith.
Ain't sociology fun?
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Date: 2006-05-19 02:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-19 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-19 06:41 pm (UTC)It's like... the Jewish Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament, though there are the odd translation differences here and there) is the original D&D box set with the dragon on the front. Then, they came out with Advanced Judaism, and then Unearthed Seder, and a whole bunch of the Complete Hasid books with different kits for being differentiated Jews, and then the Reform movement came along and released Judaism 3.0, and the Conservative movement released 3.5, but the Orthodox movement's all "no way, we're going to just use the rules in the Cantor's Handbook and the First Edition Rabbinical Master's Guide" and so on and so on....
Also, there's Klezmer music.
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-19 07:33 pm (UTC)(Feel free. :) )
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Date: 2006-05-20 03:47 am (UTC)Ooh, so what does that make the Talmud then? Or Kaballah?