Read
Steve Hassan's response to the above Boston Globe article
which misquoted him giving J4J a clean bill of health. According
to Hassan: "Sara [the Globe writer] created the false impression
that, as a cult expert, I give Jews for Jesus a "clean bill
of health." I certainly do not. I told her that I did have evidence
that Jews for Jesus was a destructive cult and told her about
the book, Hawking God by Ellen Kamentsky. I told her that Ellen
lived in the Boston area, and encouraged her to speak with her.
I told Neufeld that I found Kamentsky's account highly credible
when she described her time in the group as a destructive cult.
I also went on to say that I have yet to meet others like Ellen
who could confirm that her experiences were representative of
being involved with Jews for Jesus, rather than an isolated
case- and therefore I was reluctant to categorize them definitively
as a destructive cult. I did say that I thought Jews for Jesus
was very deceptive, and that they made it sound like it was
primarily Jews in the organization, when "they were mostly Baptists".
I also told her, that as a Jew that theologically, it is impossible
to be a Jew and Christian simultaneously, citing as just one
example the Christian doctrine of original sin- which contradicts
the Jewish belief that a baby is born without sin. There are
many other fundamental conflicts."
