Friday, November 19, 2004


Letter Threatens Violence Against Presbyterians' 'Anti-Jewish Attitudes'
(CNSNews.com) - Two American Jewish leaders says they are "disgusted and outraged" by threats of violence made against Presbyterian Churches.

In a statement issued Sunday, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, and Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, called the people who made the threats "thugs" who are "far outside the mainstream of American Jewry."

The Presbyterian Church USA recently said it would stop investing in companies that do business with Israel -- an effort, the church says, to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, although many Jews see it as an unhelpful, anti-Israel move....