Roy Moore's "Jewish" Lawyer Is a Jew for Jesus

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/05/roy-moores-real-jewish-lawyer-is-a-liberty-university-grad-who-has-accepted-christ/?hpid=hp_rhp-morning-mix_mm-moore%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

As if this story couldn't get more offensive. Trying to disprove anti-semitism by pointing to your Jewish lawyer is bad enough when the lawyer is question is actually Jewish. But doing so when the person is a Jew for Jesus -- who virtually all Jews would therefore consider Christian -- is even worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/05/roy-moores-real-jewish-lawyer-is-a-liberty-university-grad-who-has-accepted-christ/?hpid=hp_rhp-morning-mix_mm-moore%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

As if this story couldn't get more offensive. Trying to disprove anti-semitism by pointing to your Jewish lawyer is bad enough when the lawyer is question is actually Jewish. But doing so when the person is a Jew for Jesus -- who virtually all Jews would therefore consider Christian -- is even worse.

Agree. Actually, a Jew for Jesus has rejected the primary law of Judaism and is considered to have adopted Christianity. For Moore to point out that he hired someone who has rejected the key tenent of Judaism is far from disproving his anti-Semitism.

[Anonymous]

So ridiculous. And not surprising.

[Anonymous]

they said something about doing fellowship together, wonder if fellowship is actually straight up Jesus praying

[Anonymous]

He graduated from Liberty University, was baptized as an evangelical Christian. He calls himself a "Messianic Jew" but this is because he believes being Jewish is a racial category (as do the Moores and their ilk), not a religious one. He's not a member of the actual "Jews for Jesus" group, or of any other Christian group that also considers itself Jewish. Read the article.

It's a really unsettling position to see a person born Jewish hold, since it suggests, yet again, that Jews are seen as not white at the same time that every other minority group cries foul when Jews claim minority status. It's an uncomfortable time to be a Jew in America.

[Anonymous]

But when peole who believe in Jesus claim they are Jewish, it diminishes what "real" Judaism is.

For example, I am a professional writer - with several well-selling, nationally distributed books (in addition to hundreds of articles) to my name. When someone asked me what I did for a living and I responded with "I'm a writer," she responded, quite enthusiastically, that she too was a writer. I then asked her what she writes, and she told me she self-published a children's book a couple of years ago and has sold almost 20 copies via Amazon since then.

Not the same thing at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But when peole who believe in Jesus claim they are Jewish, it diminishes what "real" Judaism is.

For example, I am a professional writer - with several well-selling, nationally distributed books (in addition to hundreds of articles) to my name. When someone asked me what I did for a living and I responded with "I'm a writer," she responded, quite enthusiastically, that she too was a writer. I then asked her what she writes, and she told me she self-published a children's book a couple of years ago and has sold almost 20 copies via Amazon since then.

Not the same thing at all.

If they are calling themselves Jews in a religious sense and not an ethnic sense. Wikipedia's article is titled "Ashkenazi Jews" and wikipedia defines them as "a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced as a distinct". But you could be Ashkenazi and a Christian, Muslim, Bahá'í or atheist. My ancestry is Ashkenazi from Eastern Europe. But I'm not a Jew in the religious sens. Then what am I? Other groups can reference their ethnicity, such as "Blacks for Jesus" or "Arabs for Jesus". Can we do "Ashkenazis for Jesus" or "Sephardis for Jesus"?

[Anonymous]

You can bet this guy wouldn’t be Moore’s lawyer or confidante if he were a practicing Jew—and that’s the point.