Chosen People Ministries, was founded as the Williamsburg Mission to the Jews, was known as the "American Board of Missions to the Jews" for most of its existence. It is an evangelistic organization of Messianic Judaism, an outgrowth of the ministry of Leopold Cohn. Cohn was born Itsak Leib Jaszovics in Berezna in eastern Hungary. He claimed to have become a Rabbi in Hungary, and subsequently emigrated to the United States to investigate his beliefs in Jesus as the Messiah. His son Joseph Hoffman Cohn explained that his father did not retrieve his rabbinic ordination and references prior to his immigration to the United States. It has been suggested that Messianic Religious Practices be merged into this article or section. ... Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי (Ribbi... Jesus is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help take it from Good to Featured article status. ... In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ anointed one, Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew Arabic ) initially meant any person who was anointed by a prophet of God. ...

David Max Eichhorn, in Evangelizing the American Jew (Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David, 1978), states that he was in fact a saloonkeeper convicted of forgery who escaped to the United States under an assumed name (Cohn) and profession (Rabbi). Cohn founded Chosen People Ministries in Brooklyn, New York, in 1894 as the American Board of Missions to the Jews. However, the current president of Chosen People Ministries, Dr. Mitch Glaser has reviewed these accusations against Rabbi Cohn and based upon the evidence and court records is convinced that Rabbi Cohn was being defamed by members of the Jewish community who opposed his work. None of the allegations were proven and certainly Leopold Cohn was an ordained Rabbi and was not guilty of the above mentioned activities. His personal testimony can be found in the book, To An Ancient People, which is available through Chosen People Ministries. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

History of Chosen People Ministries - List of Presidents

Rabbi Leopold Cohn (1894-1925) Joseph Hoffman Cohn (1925-1953) Harold Pretlove (1953-1957) Daniel Fuchs (1958-1975) Harold Sevener (1976-1988) Sam Nadler (1989-1997) Mitch Glaser (1997-current)

Current Ministry

Chosen People Ministries is a member of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities, the Christian Stewardship Association, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. Headquarters are in New York City.

Chosen People Ministries has staff in 12 countries around the world and starts Messianic Centers and congregations as the main focus of their work. The message of the organization is very simple - the staff believe that Jesus, Yeshua, is the Messiah of Israel and that a Jew who accepts Jesus as their Messiah is still Jewish. This is why Chosen People staff encourage Jews who believe in Jesus to continue oin their identification as Jews, to observe Jewish holidays and to support the nation of Israel.

External link

• Official web site

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