The heads of four rabbinical seminaries in the United States sent a joint letter to the president of the Southern Baptist Convention condemning his group’s strategy of targeting Jews for conversion. “The Jewish community is deeply offended that the SBC has formally embraced a strategy that attempts to deceive Jews into believing that one can be both a Jew and Christian,” said the letter, which was organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and sent to the Rev. Paige Patterson.
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