Fake rabbi plants billboards across New York City advertising Christian proselytizing website
The jew.com website is ostensibly an educational resource about Hebrew scriptures. But after a short scroll, it becomes clear that the website is aimed at converting Jews to belief in Jesus.
Fake rabbi Kurt Schneider has been placing billboards across New York City and parts of New Jersey advertising his Christian proselytizing website, Jews.com. The billboards first appeared in recent weeks and can be found in heavily Jewish neighborhoods as well as Brooklyn and Manhattan. Schneider, who was born to Jewish parents and raised in Ohio, claims to be a messianic Jew focused on converting Jews to Christianity.
His website, which portrays itself as an educational resource about the Hebrew scriptures, actually promotes the idea that Jesus is the Jewish messiah. Schneider speaks about Hassidic rebbes as intermediaries between Jews and God, and argues that Jesus, known in Hebrew as Yeshua, is the true intermediary who can bring Jews into a personal relationship with God.
Despite claiming to be a rabbi, Schneider has never been ordained as such and has no formal rabbinic training. He also runs a TV and radio ministry called Discovering the Jewish Jesus, which aims to proclaim the messiah to Jewish people and the world. The organization Schneider is affiliated with also conducts missionary work in Israel and Africa, promoting the idea that Jews have a unique burden to accept Jesus as the messiah.
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