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A Tenuous Claim as a Jew for Jesus


By David Klinghoffer

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/a_tenuous_claim_as_a_jew_for_jesus_20060331/

You know Jews for Jesus, the lovable San Francisco-based organization that uses the appeal of Jewish kinship to introduce Jews to "Y'shua ha Mashiach" (Jesus Christ). Its executive director is a pleasant fellow named David Brickner. After he critiqued my book, "Why the Jews Rejected Jesus," in a Jews for Jesus publication and later graciously retracted a prominent factual error he made, we started e-mailing.

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