Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, passed away suddenly Wednesday afternoon at the age of 67:
The American-Israeli rabbi died from sudden heart failure and his funeral will be held in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Eckstein was an author, philanthropist and activist who served on the boards of various Jewish organizations, including the Joint Distribution Agency, Jewish Agency and Anti-Defamation league.
He brought in $1.4 billion in donations for Israel, mostly from evangelical Christians, since founding the IFCJ in 1983.
In addition to assisting with Jewish immigration to Israel, the organization arranges trips and activities for immigrants inside Israel, job market guidance, child care solutions and help for those in need. The IFCJ also helped lone soldiers — Israel Defense Forces personnel, many of them new immigrants, who either have no family in Israel or are not in contact with their families.
He was honored on May 23, 2017, at a US Congressional tribute event marking Jewish American Heritage Month, for his work to build bridges between Christians and Jews…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Eckstein “worked very hard to benefit the citizens of Israel and to strengthen the connection between the Christian communities and Israel. May his memory be a blessing.”
President Reuven Rivlin eulogized Eckstein as a “great man, a great Jew and a great Zionist.”
The IFCJ said that millions of people owe their gratitude to Eckstein, whose legacy was “the construction of bridges between the Christian and Evangelical communities in the United States and elsewhere in the world for support and cooperation with the State of Israel.
“From the fruits of his efforts over the past forty years, Israeli citizens enjoy tourism today, Israel’s diplomatic boom and a social contribution of billions of shekels,” the organization said in a statement.
In a statement, Pastor John Hagee paid tribute to Eckstein for his work in bringing Christians and Jews together.
“I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. His impact on the state of Israel and on bringing Jews and Christians together will be felt for generations,” the Christians United for Israel founder said in a statement. “I pray God brings comfort to the Rabbi’s family during this very difficult time, and I know that his memory will be a blessing to us all.”
…Abraham Foxman, former director of the ADL, has accused Eckstein in the past of “selling the dignity of the Jewish people” by pandering to Christians.
His work also came under criticism from liberal Jews, who make up the majority of the American Jewish community and bristle at evangelicals’ ties to the political right and their support for Israel’s settlement enterprise in the West Bank, a major sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But Eckstein pushed back against Jewish leaders who distrusted evangelical support of Israel. “[T]he majority of evangelicals are passionately pro-Israel because it is part of their theology to love and support the Jewish people,” Eckstein wrote in 2002. “I could not accept the conditional love of those who expect a payback on behalf of my people. I could not embark on a relationship that would compromise my personal integrity and ideals or that of the Jewish community I represent. But having been the first — and most often the only — Jew to build bridges with the right-wing Christian community, I have a view and understanding of their pro-Israel fervor that most people ‘on the outside’ lack.”
So, in other words, Rabbi Eckstein gladly accepted money from these deluded Christian evangelicals as long as they didn’t want anything in return. The Jew took in over a billion dollars from Christians to promote his pro-Zionist agenda, and what do these Christians receive for their money? Nothing, as the rabbi made clear. What kind of Jew turns down a billion dollars free and clear just because it comes from Christians with no strings attached?
Perhaps these Christians truly believe that by giving this rabbi a billion dollars, they would somehow help bring about the Second Coming of Jesus, and that’s what is motivating them. They must literally believe that God will be so pleased that these evangelicals gave a billion dollars to this rabbi that He will speed up his timetable on when He plans to come again. If that’s truly the case, then the rabbi’s death is certainly a devastating loss to these evangelicals, who will now have to find another rabbi who has the ear of God.
I’m a 67 yo retired Christian white male I’m in no way @ all RACIST!! However I’m totally disgusted with the these MISERABLE SCAM ARTISTS who are PICKPOCKETING GULLIBLE DECENT WHITE BLACK n BROWN CHRISTIANS!! SCAM ARTISTS come in all sizes shapes & RELIGIOUS PERSUASIONS!! ONE of the WORST TV ALL TIME EVANGELIST CROOKS is MIKE MURDOCK & INSPIRATION MINISTRIES his 2020 NET WORTH is estimated to be $8 mil BULLSHIT he’s WORTH 30 times more NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW? What I’ll never understand is that how these GULLIBLE FOOLS suffering from insomnia who in the EARLY MORNING HOURS BELIEVE THIS OBVIOUS FRAUD SHYSTER into giving his MAKE BELIEVE CHARITY’S THOUSANDS of DOLLARS I 🙏 that saying is TRUE QUOTE if there is a GOD HE’LL GET HIS WOW in this CASE I PRAY THATS TRUE????
when you make a donation, you don’t expect anything in return.
They send a request for a 5 dollar meal ticket which would be fine if true. The leader, and I use that term loosely, pockets a million bucks and bennies. Just a money grubbing group acting like a charity. Judge a charity but what the top dog makes .Joel Osteen…..now let’s check this millionaire with 60 teeth out! They insult our gullibility and generous intentions. Bebe never took a Palestinian to lunch but wouldn’t mind shooting a rocket at a hospital after being forewarned. The Jewish people are very generous and admirable. Many charities are not.
Jews are the anti Christ’s responsible for 9-11, Covid, WWII, and WWII. They are Jesus hating thieving pedophiles as described in their talmud. Jesus was a Hebrew, NOT A JEW! Jews are not the chosen people. They lying scum that want to kill you for money. Israelis hate goyim non jews. Wake up you week brained Christian sheep.
Behold, the Happy Merchants do rubbeth their hands with glee.
We are talking about millions of deluded JudeoXtians here. Only sound Biblical exegesis and archeology and history can bust their delusional system and show them that what they ar(e dealing with here is “the Synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews (of Judea) and are not”. And the Turkic peoples of the demon prince “Gog of the Land of Magog”. The people who are today styling themselves ‘Jews’ are clearly in the Bible. They can not be seen for what they are by the people who claim to be Biblically based because their Bibles have been altered and because the cover story is intact. Bust the cover story and they will not be contributing to the Third Temple.
I just can’t believe these Christians believe they are being righteous by being involved in some ‘fellowship’ with jews who obviously are making no attempt to reciprocate ANYTHING. Wow, sheep really are stupid…
It is amazing how masterful the Jews have been at fleecing the Christian flock. And it all started when the Jews figured out how lucrative and to their strategic advantage it would be to claim that they are the Tribe of Judah from the Bible. That was a much bigger lie with more far-reaching consequences than the lie about the so-called Holocaust. And now they are even conflating their State of Israel with “Israel” of the Old and New Testaments. And the brain-dead sheep just lap it up without reading their Bibles for themselves.
Much of the monies that devious organization collected came from old people, especially from the widows who bought into the televised advertising programs which were set up with conning them in mind. Those people, some old and destitute themselves, sitting lonely at home, were masterfully manipulated by the purposefully-aimed jew advertising scams. They had no knowledge that they were not doing right by funding their own biggest enemies, the jews who have always despised our God and his people.