By COLlive reporter
As if dealing with anti-Semitic attacks wasn’t enough, Brooklyn Jews are being targeted with love – the wrong kind.
Many Jewish home owners in Crown Heights have found envelopes with Christain materials on their doorsteps on Wednesday.
A number of residents have contacted COLlive.com to inform readers that houses with Mezuzahs are being targeted with these messages.
The envelope says, “A message of hope and gladness for Jewish people.”
It contains a video and pamphlet with Christian missionary propaganda.
“Do not open. Do not watch. Do not read.” they warned.
The same material was distributed over the last few weeks in Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Madison and Midwood, aka Flatbush. May Hashem protect and preserve us.
I saw them in the morning on my way to work throwing envelopes by the doorsteps. Didn’t realize what/who it was.
Was a group of a couple youngsters.
On the subject of these prosyletizers targeting Jews in Crown Heights.. I like to think that people will listen to reason. At one point a group of Jehovah Witnesses who would come in my building and proselytize started coming to my house on Sunday mornings at like 9 am knocking waking me up. Worse than the proselytizing was being woken up on a Sunday morning. So one day I see a bunch of them in the front of my building and I asked them to please not come to my house anymore, I said I am not interested, and if… Read more »
I don’t have to open. I see the text here. But why are people so scared of what is written? Is the torah and chassidus so fragile that something written by someone else could tip the cart?
It is PEOPLE who are sometimes fragile. There are skilled salespeople who can “sell ice to the Eskimos,” etc. We all have our vulnerable moments, r”l, and not all of us can answer missionaries “while standing on one foot,” at all times, no matter what else is going on in our lives. But even if you do not view yourself as “fragile,” the Rebbe, if I remember correctly, advised us not to even put ourselves in a position of discussing their “message,” not because there’s anything fragile (c”v!) in Hashem’s word but because these people know every argument we might… Read more »