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Lisa Marie Burns, 57, of Cary, North Carolina, was arrested on Friday December 28, 2018 for vandalizing the Shaarei Shalom synanogue in the city. Photo by Cary Police
December 29, 2018, 11:45 am
North Carolina police arrest woman for vandalizing Messianic congregation
Lisa Marie Burns, 57, charged with ethnic intimidation and property damage after throwing brick through windows of the Shaarei Shalom temple in Cary
By Agencies and TOI staff
The entrance to Sha'arei Shalom synagogue in Cary, North Carolina (Google Maps)
December 28, 2018, 9:53 pm
Messianic congregation in North Carolina vandalized following threats
An unidentified person threw a brick through the windows of Shaarei Shalom, a house of prayer affiliated with ‘Jews for Jesus,’ in Cary
By JTA
Vice President Mike Pence, right, prays with 'Rabbi' Loren Jacobs, of Bloomfield Hills' Congregation Shema Yisrael, for the victims and families of those killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, at a rally for Republicans in Oakland County, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, at the Oakland County Airport in Waterford, Mich. (Tanya Moutzalias/Ann Arbor News-MLive.com via AP)
October 31, 2018, 5:48 am
Messianic ‘rabbi’ who prayed for Jewish victims had been defrocked by own order
Rabbi Loren Jacobs of the Messianic congregation caused outrage among Jews when he invoked ‘Jesus the Messiah’ in prayers at a Republican campaign stop with VP Pence
By TOI staff and Agencies
Vice President Mike Pence, right, prays with 'Rabbi' Loren Jacobs, of Bloomfield Hills' Congregation Shema Yisrael, for the victims and families of those killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, at a rally for Republicans in Oakland County, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, at the Oakland County Airport in Waterford, Mich. (Tanya Moutzalias/Ann Arbor News-MLive.com via AP)
October 30, 2018, 5:26 am
Outrage as Pence brings out Messianic ‘rabbi’ to pray for synagogue victims
Loren Jacobs invokes ‘Jesus the Messiah’ in his prayer; Pence says he did not know the cleric, who was invited to event by Jewish GOP candidate Lena Epstein
By TOI staff and Agencies
Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore stands behind his wife Kayla Moore as she speaks during a campaign event at Jordan's Activity Barn on December 11, 2017, in Midland City, Alabama. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
January 6, 2018, 2:48 am
Why Jews care that Roy Moore’s ‘Jewish lawyer’ is actually Christian
Reference to Martin Wishnatsky by wife of defeated Senate candidate invokes age-old debate: Is Judaism primarily an ethnicity, a religion or a culture?
By Ben Sales
Kathie Lee Gifford at the 2016 Greenwich International Film Festival in Greenwich, Connecticut, June 10, 2016. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for GIFF)
September 26, 2017, 3:34 am
Kathie Lee Gifford wrote a book about Israel
‘Today’ co-host chronicles her past four rabbinical study trips to the Holy Land in ‘The Rock, The Road, and the Rabbi’
By Gabe Friedman
Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)
August 31, 2017, 10:38 pm
Messianic Israeli couple cannot marry in Jewish ceremony, rabbinical court rules
Couple say they believe in Jesus as the Messiah and that they work to spread the Gospel
By JTA
A new generation of Igbos is being raised with Judaism. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)
August 11, 2017, 5:08 pm
Messianic Jews to Nigerians: You’re not ‘real’ Jews
Religious group from Arizona claims DNA testing proves that Igbo tribe are not genetically Jewish, drawing ire
By Melanie Lidman
Musician Glen Campbell at the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney on January 30, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. (Gaye Gerard/Getty Images via JTA)
August 10, 2017, 2:46 am
Musician Glen Campbell was a Messianic Jew
Country star behind ‘Rhinestone Cowboy,’ who died Tuesday at 81, was raised Baptist but spent last decades as part of Christian-Jewish sect
By Gabe Friedman
Michael Rood breaks matzah at the huge seder event 'The Road to Redemption' on Easter weekend near Charlotte, North Carolina. (Courtesy)
April 7, 2017, 11:15 pm
Why are these seders different from all other seders? Because Jesus serves as paschal lamb
Christians throughout the US are adopting the age-old Passover tradition, learning, sharing and coming closer to their Jewish neighbors
By Rich Tenorio
In a Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, file photo, Farhad Khan, who has attended the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce for more than seven years, shows members of the media its charred remains, in Fort Pierce, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
February 7, 2017, 12:19 pm
Jewish ex-con gets 30 years in Florida mosque fire
Joseph Schreiber apologizes for arson attack, says fear drove him to set ablaze Islamic center where Orlando gunman prayed
By TERRY SPENCER
The charred outside of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Fla., following an arson attack, Sept. 12, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/JTA)
September 16, 2016, 11:14 pm
Arsonist who torched Orlando club shooter’s mosque has Messianic Jewish ties
Joseph Michael Schreiber, who confessed to starting the fire, displays messianic imagery on his Facebook page
By JTA
Israel Police hold back right-wing Jewish activists of the 'Temple Mount Faithful' movement outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 10, 2016. (Corina Kern/Flash90)
April 28, 2016, 2:04 pm
As support widens for Jewish prayer on Temple Mount, should we fear apocalyptic consequences?
With almost daily disturbances at the most contested and incendiary of holy sites, and with an increasing number of religious Zionists yearning for a Third Temple, Israeli activists walk a fine line between peaceful protest and provocation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Melissa Toporek
March 3, 2016, 4:07 pm
Melissa Toporek
The synagogue she doesn’t go to
A search for a place to pray in Addis Ababa reveals a branch of Ethiopian Jews, and a messianic community too
Nicholas Thalasinos renewing his marital vows with his wife at a Jewish-style ceremony, 2013 (Facebook/JTA)
December 5, 2015, 2:20 am
Messianic San Bernardino victim was ‘gentile’ supporter of Israel, argued with killer on Islam
Nicholas Thalasinos was not Jewish, but ‘felt he was put on this earth to follow Hashem and God’s people’
By Uriel Heilman
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