Counter-missionary is a term used mainly but not exclusively to describe Jewish organizations who seek to help fellow Jews understand proselytizing of Christian and other religious groups and help them connect or reconnect to their Judaism.^{[citation needed]} These groups can be found within all Jewish denominations. The Jewish term is "Kiruv Rechokim" which translates to "Jewish Outreach."

Many Chrstian denominations target Jews for conversion. One such missionary organization is Jews for Jesus which in 2007 conducted a 65-city tour where they spent $18 million. This included any city that had more than 25,000 Jews living in it.^[1]

Many Christian denominations believe in converting Jews to their religion.^{[citation needed]} Counter-missionary organizations respond to the efforts of evangelical Christians who target Jews for conversion via personal counseling, web sites with articles addressing often used missionary tactics and discussion forums where Jews who have questions about the differences between Judaism and other religions can be answered.

Although most missionary efforts to convert Jews to other religions are sponsored by Christianity, Muslims have also targeted Jews for conversion.^{[citation needed]}

The Jewish response to the massive amounts of money and people directed at its 14 million worldwide population is in the form on one to one counseling (via phone or face to face), books, tapes, internet websites devoted to answering missionary "proofs" and discussion forums. This Jewish response is referred to as "counter-missionary" or "anti-missionary."

Contents 1 See also 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External links 4.1 Groups which prompted this response

[edit] See also

• Outreach Judaism
• Baal teshuva
• Jews for Judaism
• Judaism's view of Jesus

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Twenty-Six Reasons Why Jews Don't Believe in Jesus by Asher Norman (Black White and Read Publishing) ISBN 978-0977193721
• Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History by David Klinghoffer (Doubleday) ISBN 978-0385510219
• The Jewish response to missionaries: Counter-missionary handbook by Bentzion Kravitz (Jews for Judaism) ASIN: B0006RRKJG
• V'Da Mah SheTashiv: Know What To Answer (To Missionaries) A Thorough Jewish response To Missionaries by Ben Solomon (Outskirts Press) ISBN 978-1598009347
• You Take Jesus, I'll Take God: How to Refute Christian Missionaries by Samuel Levine (Hamoroh Press) ISBN 978-0960475414

[edit] External links

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• Messiah Truth
• Kosher Judaism
• Jews for Judaism
• Sha'arei Teshuva
• Outreach Judaism
• Judaism's Answer are articles written by noted counter-missionary, R' Moshe Shulman
• Messiah Truth forums for Q & A with Rabbis, Yeshiva instructors, and others to discuss how to counter missionary claims
• Kosher Judaism forum for Jewish outreach, education and counter-missionary discussions

[edit] Groups which prompted this response

• Jews for Jesus
• Messianic Judaism