baptism Archives – Jewish Journal

Holy to half of humanity – the polluted water of the Jordan River

Jewish Journal July 13, 2015

NGO believes it has the Master Plan to restore the Lower Jordan Valley.

Mormons limit genealogical access to stop baptisms of Shoah victims

Jewish Journal March 9, 2012

The Mormon Church is restricting access to its genealogical records relating to Holocaust victims in a move to protect their names from posthumous baptisms.

Daniel Pearl baptized in Mormon proxy ritual

Jewish Journal February 29, 2012

Daniel Pearl was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a prominent deceased Jew discovered to have been baptized posthumously in recent weeks.

Shoah group halts talks with Mormons on posthumous baptism of Jews

Ben Harris November 20, 2008

At a news conference Monday, leaders of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, seated in front of panels listing names of Holocaust victims they say were baptized by the Mormons, said that 14 years of quiet negotiations have proven fruitless.

A Righteous History

Stephen Breuer January 29, 2004

More than 20 years ago, as I looked over family papers with my late father, I came across a letter referring to my "conversion." Curious, I asked
what that meant. With some self-consciousness, my father first shared with me the fact that I had a Catholic baptism as a 2-year-old child in Vienna, Austria.