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WASHINGTON (AP) A rabbi invited to pray at a Michigan campaign stop with Vice President Mike Pence on Monday referenced Jesus the Messiah at the event.
Rabbi Loren Jacobs of Messianic congregation Shema Yisrael offered prayers for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Messianic Jews follow Jewish law but believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
The major denominations of Judaism reject Messianic Judaism as a form of Judaism, and Jacobs participation was condemned by Jews on social media.
A Pence aide told The Associated Press that Jacobs was invited to pray at the event in suburban Detroits Waterford Township by GOP congressional candidate Lena Epstein and said Pence did not know who he was when he invited Jacobs back onstage to offer another a prayer for the victims, their families and the nation. As Pence stood next to him, Jacobs ended his prayer by saying, in the name of Jesus.
https://www.apnews.com/eaa1731b4eb64caf90484ce41da62528
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)I am very offended by Pence pulling this stunt. This group believes that they can hasten the return of jesus by converting Jews to Christianity. They are not liked in the Jewish community
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,415 posts)Pence has no business being in government; he wants to push his religion on everyone else.
enough
(13,262 posts)By Josh Marshall
October 29, 2018 11:01 pm
In Michigan today, Vice President Pence held a rally for congressional candidates Mike Bishop and Lena Epstein. In tow, he brought a rabbi to offer a benediction and prayer of mourning for the eleven Jews killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Only it wasnt a rabbi, or at least not one who would be recognized as such by American Jews. Rabbi Loren Jacobs is a Messianic Jew, better known as Jews for Jesus. If this isnt something youre familiar with these are Jews by ancestry who maintain the trappings of Judaism and some of the ritual law while accepting Jesus as the Messiah and the entirety of Christian theology. They make up an incalculably small number of American Jews and are largely supported, subsidizedand advanced by evangelical groups hoping to convert Jews to Christianity.
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malaise
(269,157 posts)musette_sf
(10,206 posts)Jacobs is tied to grifter "Rabbi" Jonathan Cahn, another "Messianist" who guests with Jim Bakker (yes, THAT Jim Bakker) on the regular.
On Jacobs' "Shema Yisreal" website, he quotes an outstanding editorial by grifter Cahn:
https://www.shema.com/religious-corruption-223/?fbclid=IwAR2Kpn1GBGlc07vpcvP27nqA__EliF9G1QLMoZeQoEXrfd0pzm06ZH-uixY
I call Cahn "Rabbi Bluto" for obvious reasons:
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Im sure the Jewish community in Pittsburgh loved that.
Girard442
(6,084 posts)Mosby
(16,350 posts)I wish the media would stop calling him one.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,607 posts)He did not name the individual victims of the Pittsburgh massacre, but named four Republican candidates. I pray for them and for the Republican Party and its candidates so that they would honor you and your ways, that you might grant them victory in this election.
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Honoring Pittsburgh synagogue victims, Pence appears with rabbi who preaches, Jesus is the Messiah
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mucifer
(23,565 posts)They try to get us to believe in Jesus so our souls will be saved.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)If you believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, you're a Christian. Jews are still waiting for the messiah so yeah, this is a big deal.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)They are not observant Jews. They are frauds.