Jews for Jesus Campaign Targets New York Jews. Awkward, Forced Hilarity More or Less Ensues.
In a not particularly delicate article, JPost reports on really enthusiastic Jews for Jesus missionaries:
"Jesus for Jews," reads the advertisement on the F train speeding through south Brooklyn's subway tracks toward Coney Island. It's a confusing configuration. But then it becomes clear it is simply "Jews for Jesus" inverted and that the change is only the beginning of what is new, stream-lined, and more expansive about the well-known - and to most, highly annoying - Christian missionary group... It's not the first summer that these missionaries have made their presence felt in New York City... But this year is different. With a budget of $1.5 million and determined to make their month-long New York crusade the grand finale of their five-year global "Behold Your God" campaign, Jews for Jesus has pulled out all the stops... instead the usual core of 25 volunteers, more than 150 have arrived from Jews for Jesus headquarters around the world
The joke we were going to tell was "good - maybe thosedouchebag hipsters
young New York Jews will actually learn something about Judaism". But then it turned out that the Jews for Jesus campaign is being targeted at Orthodox New York Jews, so that joke doesn't work. Also, it means that we definitively really could not care less.
"Jesus for Jews," reads the advertisement on the F train speeding through south Brooklyn's subway tracks toward Coney Island. It's a confusing configuration. But then it becomes clear it is simply "Jews for Jesus" inverted and that the change is only the beginning of what is new, stream-lined, and more expansive about the well-known - and to most, highly annoying - Christian missionary group... It's not the first summer that these missionaries have made their presence felt in New York City... But this year is different. With a budget of $1.5 million and determined to make their month-long New York crusade the grand finale of their five-year global "Behold Your God" campaign, Jews for Jesus has pulled out all the stops... instead the usual core of 25 volunteers, more than 150 have arrived from Jews for Jesus headquarters around the world
The joke we were going to tell was "good - maybe those
