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Evangelicals, Jews, and Israel

Yehiel Poupko: Viewed by some Jews as friends, by others as foes, the one thing certain is that Evangelical Christians pose a great conundrum for American Jews.... Evangelicals are great supporters of our Jewish national identity as expressed in Zionism and as realized in the State of Israel, and not our friends in the matter of the faith of the Jewish people, Judaism.
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David Elcott: Many mainline Christians claim to stand for Israel even as they support divestment against companies doing business in Israel or condemn Israel as an apartheid state.  Evangelicals concern me as well; their support may endanger Israel’s future even more than our fickle mainline Protestant friends.
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David Neff: Central to the Evangelical understanding of reality is a deep sense that something is profoundly wrong with every member of the human race, that we each have a fundamental proclivity toward sinful self-love rather than toward loving God and our fellow human beings.
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Michael Lindsay: Many assume that Evangelicals and Jews stand shoulder to shoulder on foreign policy — especially regarding Israel — and are at odds on domestic concerns.  The reality, though, is more complicated.
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Quote of the Month

"Coalition politics leverage each community’s members and political contacts to a level larger than the sum of its parts.  Jewish representatives — whether Orthodox, Reform, or secular — have regularly and successfully pursued policy initiatives, both foreign and domestic, by partnering with Evangelicals."

Nathan Diament

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