Workers from Lev L’Achim’s anti-missionary department are continuing their battle to cancel two gatherings that missionary organizations are scheduled to hold in Jerusalem next week: the Women to Women conference, sponsored by Bridges for Peace, and the Women’s Summit, sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

Both of these dangerous gatherings are being organized by the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, a lobbying group that Lev L’Achim has long been warning supports and encourages Christian organizations trying to disguise their true aim of proselytizing.

As a result of Lev L’Achim’s demands, the Chief Rabbinate has set up the Committee for the Prevention of Dissemination of Missionary Activity, which met last week with Lev L’Achim’s Rabbi Zeev Shtieglitz and Jerusalem City Councilwoman Mrs. Mina Pinton, who warned against the conferences. The Chief Rabbinate then issued a forceful notice calling for the cancellation of the two conferences.

MK Benny Alon, chairman of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus tried to persuade several members of the Rabbinate Council that Bridges for Peace is not a missionary organization.

Lev L’Achim then sent the Rabbinate Council documents clearly showing that Bridges for Peace aims to convert Jews to Christianity. The documentation included an official report by a messianic Christian community operating in Arad saying a donation of food and blankets it received from Bridges for Peace was being distributed to families they are trying to bring to a “belief” in J. They submitted a detailed report of the contents of relief baskets they had distributed to 42 Holocaust survivors living in Arad.

(Dei’ah ve’Dibur)