(Image via Wikipedia) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) has apologized for violating an agreement that they had with Jewish leaders not to posthumously ‘baptize’ victims of the holocaust. Here is the story: CNN) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for "a serious breach of [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) Isn’t God done with Israel? Didn’t the church replace the Jews as God’s people? I hear this from well meaning Christians from time to time. The answers are no and yes but not completely. It is plain from scripture that God is not done with Israel. Paul writes on this issue in [...]

From Stand to Reason Blog: "If one asks what the one characteristic feature of the Christian faith is, distinguishing it from all religions in the world, then we would have to say: It is the forgiveness of sins. The pious Jew and even a pious [Muslim] may hope for God’s pardon.  Forgiveness as a real [...]

(Image by Bachir via Flickr) We posted last year about the dispute between the Mormon Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and Jewish Holocaust survivors who complained that the LDS were posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims in their temples. Now comes the word that Jewish and Mormon Church leaders have come to an [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) Here’s a report from Joel Rosenberg quoting a major newspaper in Israel:  “ISRAELI NEWSPAPER REPORTS 15,000 JEWISH BELIEVERS IN JESUS IN ISRAEL: 350,000 in the U.S.” Key Info: In Israel, there are now some 15,000 Jewish followers of Jesus (known in Hebrew as Yeshua) as the Messiah, and the number is growing. [...]

(Image by david_shankbone via Flickr) There are over a million Jews living in NY City and the Jewish community was particularly affected by the 9/11 attacks and even salt has been poured on with the popular Arab urban legend/conspiracy theory that blames it all on them or the Israelis. So you would expect that the [...]

(Jerusalem via Wikipedia) Whenever Muslims have political control in a country or area, the minority religions are consistently persecuted and the customs and heritage including religious sites are assailed and some even blotted out. We saw this demonstrated a few years back in 2001 when the Taliban destroyed the 1500 year old Buddha sculptures in [...]

(UK Supreme Court by d-notice via Flickr) A dangerous precedent has been set by the British Supreme Court in their ruling that the Jewish Free School admission policies are racially discriminatory and in violation of 1976 Race Relations Act. The JFS currently admits students that are considered Jewish based upon 3,500 year-old Orthodox Jewish criteria [...]

(Image by philippe leroyer via Flickr Here’s an article exploring the variety of responses of post-baby boomer Jews to their faith and culture. These young folks seem far less concerned with ‘anti-Semitism’ and less likely to support Israel–more likely to marry out of their faith and far more radical in their responses to their Jewish [...]

At a news conference on Monday (Nov. 10) in New York, leaders of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors said that their negotiations with the Mormon Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) had ended rather badly. The Jewish holocaust survivors had asked the LDS leaders to refrain from posthumous baptism of Jewish [...]