T. Belman. If only liberal Jews would feel this way about Israel.
Ben Shapiro was asked how were we going to get Liberal Jews to connect to Israel, he said teach them about Judaism. Of course the closer you are to Judaism the more pro-Israel you are. That applies to Christians as well.
Hundreds of Latino Evangelicals gather in LA for bilingual ‘Night to Honor Israel’, one in a series of events for Hispanic community.
Hundreds of Latino Evangelicals from Southern California gathered at the Igelsia Evangelica Latina church in Los Angeles Thursday night for a special event honoring the State of Israel.
The event, which was advertised as a “Night to Honor Israel”, was organized by Pastor Peter De Jesus, a Latino Evangelical clergyman from Texas and the National Hispanic Outreach Coordinator for Christians United For Israel (CUFI).
Participants waved Israeli, American flags while singing Hebrew songs, as girls from the congregation danced in blue-and-white outfits, based on the colors of the Israeli flag.
In addition to members of the Los Angeles Latino Evangelical community, the event – which was held in both Spanish and English – was also attended by local Jewish community leaders and a representative of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles.
Pastor De Jesus, who helped organize a series of events across the country, including Thursday night’s ‘Night to Honor Israel’, told journalist Karmel Melamed that the State of Israel is doubly important to Hispanic Evangelicals.
“Why is this so important for us as Hispanic Evangelicals? First and foremost, we are Evangelicals. We understand that as Christians, the root system of our faith comes from Judaism. The Bible that we consider to be sacred and infallible and without error…was written by… all Jews.”
“When it comes from Hispanics, we are descendants…[of people from] Spain. We know the history, especially when we consider the 1400s and the Spanish Inquisition and the real reasons for the Inquisition being done, that was, unfortunately, persecution against Jews to the point of not only forcibly trying to convert them to the Catholic Christian religion, but also mistreat them to the point of murder.”
“We as Hispanics, our roots go all the way back to that era, and even beyond that, indirectly or directly connecting to the Jewish people, to Sephardic Jews.”
Last Thursday’s event is part of a series of pro-Israel gatherings within the American Latino Evangelical community across the country.
Similar events, including ‘Nights to Honor Israel’ and ‘Standing With Israel’ gatherings of Spanish-speakers were held in San Antonio, Las Vegas, Arizona, and even Pawtucket and Providence Rhode Island in October.
In November, events directed towards Spanish speakers were held in Connecticut, Oklahoma, and Washington State.
@ adamdalgliesh:
The experts he consulted-the liar- seem to have access to information about the Maccabean Wars that nobody else has. As far as I know, having extensively read all about that period by genuine experts, we’d have known virtually nothing about them if it were not for the Books of the Maccabees……There has never been other information found. And that this assimilated, half or quarter Jew admits that the Wars were against the Selucid Empire, not the Roman Empire, could only have been acquired from a history book, certainly not from a Rabbis drasha.. It’ requires no genius to know that amongst the Graeco-Syrian armies would have been some former Jews. But the enemy was the Selucid Greek Empire and it was a massive, miraculous victory.
The 8 day tiny oil cruse is only an incidental accretion to cement the event in Jewish minds of THOSE days and their descendants forever. It sounds more like a miracle than winning a (20 year) war. And the Prophets and Sages always used miracles to show G-d’s unending love for His People.
What we do know, without the Books of the Maccbees, is the history of the last 100 or more years of the Jewish State, because from other sources, we know how it all led up to Herod and the later Roman Wars. Herod murdered the last 2 direct descendants of the Mokkoviim one being his wife the other her young 18 year old brother
So I suppose that we’d have been able to backtrack from them to the Maccabees anyway. This “Humanist” guy with a 3 year old top advisor, is lost to us, as his -“poor me”- article amply shows……… Good bye
Meanwhile, the New York Times prints overtly antisemitic article denouncing Hannukah. Author claims to speak for liberal American Jews. Obviously, people who hate Judaism don’t love Israel. Evangelicals have more respect for Judaism than liberal , assimilated American Jews.