New Jewish Group Forms to Fight Anti-Christian Bias
by Bill Fancher and Jenni Parker
June 22, 2005
(AgapePress) - Attacks on Christianity have led to the formation of a group of defenders of the faith -- that is, Jewish defenders of the Christian faith.According to Boston radio talk-show host, author and commentator Don Feder, the recently organized "Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation" (JAACD) was formed to respond to negative criticism and attacks against Christians, and to combat prejudice against that group in Hollywood, the news media, academia, politics and the courts. The group primarily exists, he explains, to educate the public about the "toxic nature of what has been called the last acceptable form of prejudice."
Feder is president of JAACD, which was organized, he says "because a group of Jewish Americans -- authors, scholars, columnists, radio talk-show hosts, people in the media and politics -- decided that it was important for Jews as Jews to speak out against anti-Christian bias and discrimination." The Jewish organization recognizes the value of the support the Christian community has shown Israel throughout the years and wants to express general solidarity with those who hold to biblical values as followers of Jesus.
At a press conference last April, Feder noted that Christian believers in America "are under assault because of the values they embrace; but the morality of Christianity is also the morality of Judaism." The group's spokesman says it is by maintaining their loyalty to the eternal values revealed at Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments, that Christians "have become pariahs in the eyes of the establishment but heroes in our eyes."
Feder, author of A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America and Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?, says JAACD came about because its members understand that "Christians are the last remaining obstacle to the moral deconstruction of America." He notes that the group will be engaging in a wide range of activities to educate Americans about anti-Christian prejudice.
The April 21 press conference at which JAACD announced its formation featured several of the new group's Advisory Board members, such as popular talk-show host Barry Farber, syndicated columnist Mona Charen, Rabbi Joshua Haberman, and Rabbi Yehuda Levin. Other prominent Jewish citizens involved with the organization include Bard College professor Rabbi Jacob Neusner, David Horowitz of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, comedian Jackie Mason, and syndicated talk-show host and film critic Michael Medved.
