Thursday, November 4, 2021

They Want Our Neshamos

November 11, 1972

Rabbi Norman Lamm 

The Jewish Center 

"Permit me to present to you some facts, not to alarm you, but merely to inform you--but in full confidence and expectation that they will indeed prove alarming. In Toronto recently, it was estimated that some 200 Jews on campus have converted to Christianity. At a Yom Kippur service held for Jewish Christians this past Yom Kippur, the hall was crowded with potential Jewish converts. On the West coast, there is a resurgence of Christian missionary activity. In Princeton, Christian evangelicals form the most active movement on campus. Detroit has experienced recently an invasion of evangelical preachers. A few weeks ago, on Halloween eve, a Catholic pentecostal group held a public baptism service--for ten Jewish students. And God knows how many Jewish youth have been ensnared by the so-called “Jewish Christians” only a few blocks away from here, in the mission on West 72nd Street."

[Note: I grew up on 72nd Street but was in no way connected to this terrible Shmad place!!!]