An emissary of the Lubavitcher Hasidim visiting here has claimed that various Jesus cults are making many converts among young Jews and blamed their parents for failing to impart “Jewish spiritual values to their children.”
Rabbi Mendel Lipskar said in an interview published in the Jewish Herald that “the spectrum of Jews switching to the Church is amazing.” He said most of the purported converts “have some kind of traditional Jewish background, some even come from Jewish day schools.” According to Rabbi Lipskar, cults such as the “True Jews.” “Hebrew Christians” and “Jews for Jesus” are doing the proselytizing. “The parents have either refrained from or proved incapable of imparting Jewish spiritual values to their children,” he said. “There is a total lack of communication in the way of thinking between the adults and the youth. If one can’t find true conviction in one’s own religion, one turns elsewhere,” he said. He claimed that if a Torah approach was presented as something honest and valid and not simply as tradition, the youth will accept it.
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