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The Very First Jew for Jesus

JL;DR SUMMARY Moishe Rosen, originally Martin Rosen, founded the controversial organization Jews for Jesus, a group focusing on converting Jews to Christianity by leveraging business tactics rather than theological arguments. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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American JewsConversionBusiness TacticsPhilo SemitismJews For JesusChristian EvangelismMoishe RosenRuth RosenMissionary Work

Places mentioned

Berkeley, California, United States
"Selling Faith: Moishe Rosen hands a pamphlet to a student on a Berkeley, Calif., street in the early 1970s."
Denver, Colorado, United States
"The business classes Rosen took at the Emily Griffith Opportunity School, a technical school in Denver, seem to have influenced his career as a fisher of men far more than his theological education at Northeastern Bible Institute did."
New York, United States
"Working for ABMJ in New York, he was struck by the Jewish communitys indifference to Christian missionaries."

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