An ad recently appeared on the Jerusalem Anglos' website - Janglo - requesting an administrative assistant to work from home "to keep the engine running." Two different people noticed it and sent me emails asking that I address this organization in a blog post.
So, let's look at the Elijah Interfaith Institute...
The spirit of Elijah is wisdom, inspiration, friendship and hope across religious traditions. Elijah deepens understanding among religions. Elijah’s mission is to foster unity in diversity, creating a harmonious world.
The Elijah Interfaith Institute is a bridge-builder:
- between the theoretical study of religion and the quest for wisdom and spirituality.
- between theoretical study and action oriented programs, geared at creating social change and advancing the long term goals of peace-making.
- not only between the Abrahamic religions but also between them and the religions of the East.
- of dialogue and collaboration between world religious leadership, scholars and thinkers of diverse religious traditions and lay leadership.
- between thinkers and religious teachers in different parts of the world through its international programs and networks.
According to our Holy Torah, mankind is forbidden to create new religions for themselves. Those who do are rebels against Hashem's sovereignty and thereby, enemies of God.
- between religious thinkers, policy makers and educators, allowing the best of our religions to serve as an inspiration to society. (Source)
There is only one "religion" or system of relating to the Creator, and that is described and defined in the body of instructions entrusted to Am Yisrael at Har Sinai, that which we call TORAH.
Humanity consists of two groups of human beings - Jews and Gentiles. The Jews have 613 mitzvot and the Gentiles have seven. The Jews are sons and daughters of God and the Gentiles are His creations. A Gentile is allowed to elevate himself to the higher status of a Jew, but only in accordance with TORAH law.
Unfortunately, much of humanity rejects these fundamental truths which in no way nullifies them. By insisting that we are all the same and working night and day with all their strength to bring the Jewish nation down to their level, to assimilate with them against the Creator's will, and to put a kosher stamp on their false and illegal religious traditions, they are warring against the Almighty Himself.
In every case I am familiar with, it is a Jew who opened the door for the enemy to enter in...
Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Founder and Director of the Elijah Interfaith InstituteWhat's worse is that this outright rebellion is being waged in Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh right under our very noses. And they mean to conquer Har Habayit for Humankind and in the name of all the false religions of the world, God help us!
Goshen-Gottstein underwent religious training and was ordained a rabbi in 1978. For the following thirty years he served as a reserve chaplain in the Israeli army, but he has never practiced as a communal rabbi.
Goshen-Gottstein attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a concentration in the fields of Talmud and Jewish Thought. He also studied at Harvard University Christianity and religions. He received a PhD from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1986. His thesis was on the subject "God and Israel as Father and Son in Tannaitic Literature." His PhD was supervised by Ephraim Urbach. He has taught at a variety of Israeli universities. Goshen-Gottstein headed the Institute for the Study of Rabbinic Thought at Bet Morasha College, Jerusalem, from 1997 till 2013, and oversaw conferences and publications in the field.
For a decade, Goshen-Gottstein was a member of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Advanced Studies. Here, he engaged with contemporary existential issues and became versed in public interfaith conversations, for which he was in charge for several years on behalf of the Hartman Institute.
Besides his academic training, Goshen-Gottstein has drawn from other Jewish and non-Jewish resources. He is affiliated with several Hassidic communities and has been deeply influenced by Hassidic teaching and spirituality.
Goshen-Gottstein's spiritual education has included formative relations with non-Jewish spiritual masters and in–depth relations with a broad range of Christian monastic communities. He has shared in the spiritual lives of Christian and Hindu communities and enjoyed the friendship, wisdom, and counsel of teachers from the Buddhist and Muslim traditions. (Source)
From their website...
I will bring them to My holy mount, and I will cause them to rejoice in My house of prayer, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. (Isaiah 56:7)
The HOPE vision – a House of Prayer and Education – the first interfaith center in Jerusalem.
HOPE draws from an ancient Biblical vision, spelled out by Isaiah, a vision of harmony and unity in the divine presence: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.”
HOPE seeks to translate this vision into a reality of sharing prayer for peace by Muslims, Christians, Jews and others, praying in their respective spaces, under one roof.
HOPE is an educational complex that seeks to set new standards in interfaith relations and sharing of wisdom.
HOPE is a place of communal encounter for scholars, religious leaders, pilgrims, spiritual seekers and the community at large. The Center of Hope will be a safe space, belonging fully to participating faiths.
HOPE is a community of communities, a welcome for pilgrims, a home for all.
The House Of Prayer and Education is a means of training hearts and minds to openness to the other and to the ultimate other, a symbol and model for interfaith relations, and an invitation to jointly express in prayer the deepest aspirations of humanity and, above all, the aspiration for peace… in Jerusalem and the entire world.
There is not a single institution in all of Jerusalem in which its religions share and come together. There is no interreligious center anywhere in the Holy Land that is frequented by members of the three religions and there is absolutely no sense of the possibility of sharing a site or a place of worship, as a means of seeking to express and deepen the quest for peace and harmony between Jerusalem’s religions. In fact, there is no such center anywhere in the world.
Once such a center is created, it would provide a powerful symbol of the potential that Jerusalem has to be a city of peace, rather than one of tension. It would inspire people outside Jerusalem, worldwide, to both support the collaborative spiritual vision of Jerusalem and to seek to emulate it and to extend it to their various localities.
Thus, a Jerusalem-based project is actually quite international in its ultimate vision. It also seeks to involve members of all religions, East and West, in the creation of the world’s most visible interfaith center, in a city that more than any city globally represents the coming together of different faith traditions, thereby providing a symbol for the potential of a better future.
The Center of HOPE will include learning opportunities, a museum on prayer and the spiritual life, a pilgrims’ center for interreligious pilgrimage and parallel prayer spaces for all major faith traditions, modeling collaboration and the continuing quest of prayer for peace, in Jerusalem and worldwide.Jerusalem sat bereft and forlorn and neglected for centuries, unwanted and undervalued, until the Jews came home. Now, suddenly, mankind knows at some soul-level that Am Yisrael is about to be redeemed. Somehow, they understand in some deep spiritual place that they are unworthy and yet they are at the same time unwilling to admit their errors and repent. Thus, they are trying to exert their own will over that of their Creator.
[See Prayers for HOPE.]
Some will look at this and rejoice, thinking it is proof that the entire world is about to be redeemed together - all peoples, all religions, all faith traditions - at peace.
When mankind goes to war against their Creator, there will only be peace when the rebels have been utterly destroyed.
Redemption comes only for - not the religious, but - the righteous among both Jews and Gentiles, those who remained faithful and loyal to the Holy Torah.
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A good way to judge an organization is to look at who their sponsors and financial backers are...
UNESCO
John Templeton Foundation
Fetzer Institute
Geurrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum
Henry Luce Foundation
First, Thank you for exposing so much truth on what is going on in Yerushalayim. Difficult to find all this information elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part of all this kefirah and heresy is that these avoda zoraniks make sure they go right to the source of holiness, Yerushalayim, to promote their evil. Looks as if they are creating all these groups and organizations almost under cover to promote this universal one religion zevel.
Torah tells us that 'from within your midst will come your worst enemies'; hasn't that been the history of our people almost from the start, r'l? The signs to our Geula are coming faster and faster as every day we learn more and more of the nefarious deeds done by our enemies from within and without, mostly behind the backs of the ordinary Jew living in the Land and elsewhere. Every day as I open my favorite blogs where I really learn what's happening, I still get shocked to what I am going to read. H' yerachem!
A good idea would be to send a link to enable Jews to donate to Yad lachim,(the anti missionary organisation that helps our people) maybe a video that shows there activities thanks
ReplyDeleteIn Jerusalem, Catholic sisters have Jews teaching the New Testament
ReplyDelete...Theodore Ratisbonne, a prominent French Jewish banker, founded the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion in 1843 with the support of his brother Alphonse Ratisbonne. Theodore Ratisbonne had converted to Catholicism in 1827, with his brother following in 1842. Prior to their conversions, both brothers were involved in supporting charitable endeavors within the Jewish community.
After their conversion, the brothers wanted to continue helping the Jews – but they felt the best way to do this was by praying for Jews to convert to Catholicism. “When we started, the ‘in’ thing of the day was for people to convert,” said Zdunich. “Theodore felt Jews needed to accept Jesus to come to God,” she said. “He forbade proselytizing, so we couldn’t be active about converting Jews, but we could pray for it.”
Following the Holocaust, the Notre Dame de Sion sisters were involved in the Catholic Church’s controversial policy not to return Jewish children to their families after the war if they had been baptized. Sometimes, Jewish children who were in hiding in Catholic institutions during World War II were baptized, in what the Church leaders believed was a strategy to save them from the Nazis. After the war, they worried about giving the children converted to Catholicism back to Jewish parents. “Children who have been baptized must not be entrusted to institutions that would not be in a position to guarantee their Christian upbringing,” stated a Vatican letter from 1946 examining the issue of baptized Jewish children.
Peta Jones Pellach, who ran the Janglo ad for the Elijah Interfaith Institute and who narrated their video, has commented on the above article.
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Dr. Marcie Lenk, one of the regular professors at the Center for Biblical Formation and the academic director of the Bat Kol Institute, said the Notre Dame de Sion congregation completely changed her life as a Jewish person and a teacher. Growing up an Orthodox Jew in Teaneck, New Jersey, Lenk said, her knowledge of Christianity was limited to what she heard from her community....
...Lenk met some Notre Dame de Sion sisters in the 1990s at an interfaith study group in Jerusalem called Bnei Avraham. Her interactions with Christians in the group – and the realization that they weren’t trying to kill or convert the Jews around them – inspired Lenk to start studying more about Christianity and its connections to Judaism. Lenk eventually did her doctorate in Early Christianity at Harvard University, and today teaches Christian texts to Jews and Jewish texts to Christians.
...Lenk, who identifies as a religious Jew,...is also the director of the Christian Leadership program at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem,....
Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein also studied Christianity at Harvard and also worked at the Shalom Hartman Institute. All these people are connected and they all pass through the same institutions. And notice how they all have an "Anglo" connection.
These Christian proselytizers never changed. They just finally understood that they could trap more flies with honey than with vinegar. Let's face it, they never really cared about saving the Jew's soul. It was always about destroying Judaism by eliminating the Jew. So, who cares whether it comes about through religious conversion or cultural assimilation, the end result is the same.
DeleteOf course this is not the first questionable post by JANGLO. You posted on the basketball player with "Jewish roots" who was "converting" even though he still believed in Yoshke. JANGLO was not interested in hearing criticism about this post of the article on him.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is run by another assimilationist Jew who thinks that Jews coming together with gentiles is bringing the redemption, r"l.
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