Simply Jewish Educational Programs

Youth Programs:

1. Simulated debate between a missionary and a Rabbi.
2. What Jewish youth should know about missionaries.

Adult programs:

Why are Christian missionaries winning Jewish converts? (General
introduction)

Does Isaiah refer to a Virgin Birth?
Who is the mother in that prophecy? Who is the child? When was the child born? What are the political circumstances for which the child's birth is a prophetic "sign."

Who is the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53?
Whose sins does he bear? Is he a messianic figure? Who is telling the story? What relevance is the passage for Jews today?

Atonement for sin- Yom Kippur or Crucifixion?
What is the role of blood sacrifice in Judaism? Are Jews bereft of
atonement without it, as missionaries allege? How do Jews differ from Christians in understanding sin and atonement?

The Trinity - is it monotheistic?
What does the trinity mean? How do missionaries see the trinity precisely in verses proclaiming the unity of God? What do Jews mean by Divineunity? Did Christianity always believe in the trinity?

Does Judaism believe in Original Sin?
Are we born good, evil, or neutral? Did sin in the Garden of Eden result in the fall of Man? What does Judaism say about free will? Does Man need "salvation?"

Messiah- Jewish and Christian conceptions
What are the qualifications of a Messiah in the Bible? What is a messiah to accomplish? Why does Scripture say so little about the Messiah, and so much about a Messianic age?

Has God divorced the Jewish people?
Missionaries argue that the Church is the "New Israel." Have we
disappointed our own God? How do we understand Biblical passages which seem to disenfranchise the Jewish nation? Are we in divorce, separation or marital romance?

The New Covenant in Jeremiah 31- have the Mitzvot been nullified?
Paul writes that the covenant of the Law is a curse, and that Jeremiah has supplanted it with a covenant of grace. How can we reclaim the "New Covenant" in ways which do not mean a New Testament?

Oral Law- Are the Pharisees hypocrites?
The Talmudic Rabbis are the villains of the New Testament. Why is this so? What does their legacy mean for Jews of different backgrounds and beliefs?

How Missionaries Paint Jesus into the Hebrew Bible
Missionaries argue that a non-Jewish religion can be proven from the Jewish Bible . Mistranslations, misquotes, and ripping verses out of context are the techniques used to show unsuspecting Jews that Jesus is inside Biblical pages.

Jewish and Christian views of Satan
Why does Christianity speak of Satan much more often than Judaism? Is Satan a 'bad" character? How can Satan be conceived of by a 21st century American Jew?

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