a Personal Note: I should be angry, even furious; instead, I find it saddening and distressing beyond measure when leading rabbis in Israel make statements such as these:

Rabbi Deri explained to Arutz-7, "We note of late the terrible phenomenon of Messianic Jews wreaking havoc and destruction in Israel by trying to bring Jesus as Messiah into Israel.”

And Rabbi HaLevi is most upset by the "Jewish disguise" in which Messianic Jews parade, thereby posing a greater missionary danger than ever before: "The modern missionaries who have inherited the crusaders' sword and the inquisitors' cauldrons disguise their true identity with such false names as 'Messianic Jews,' 'Jews for Jesus,' and so forth, and thereby, by ways of pleasantness and peace, they draw adults closer to them and they especially draw misled, confused, and outcast youth."

How dare these “spiritual leaders” of our nation slander those who believe in Yeshua in this terribly malicious way? Did Rabbi Yehuda Deri lose almost his entire family to the Nazis, all of the families’ possessions, and suffer 11 years of being treated as a sub-human, for no other reason than being Jewish? Would Deri dare say into my face that I “wreak havoc and destruction in Israel,” just by being a believer in Yeshua? Would HaLevi dare say to my face that I am “disguising” myself and merely “parading” as being Jewish, and that I have “inherited the crusaders’ sword and the inquisitors’ cauldrons?” I, who is a descendant of Jews who fled Spain during the Inquisition, should be accused and slandered like that?

If the rabbis know, love and obey Torah at all – such as they ALL claim – then they should know that they have brought a curse upon themselves by lying so outrageously and slandering their fellow Jews* so maliciously. Slander, in G-d’s eyes, is the same as murder, because it destroys a person’s good name and reputation.^L

Should I lie and deny what I have seen and heard in order to escape their vicious tongue, their false accusations and their persecution of Jews who are not Gentile Christians posing as Jews, but ARE Jews? Are we” wreaking havoc” if we insist on being recognized as such and having the right to express our faith in G-d’s promise? None of us have any interest or intention to turn our fellow Jews away from Judaism, drawing them away from the flock. NOOO!!! On the contrary, I strongly oppose all Gentilizers who try to turn a Jew who comes to believe in Yeshua into a Gentile Christian. But just as the Chabadnics have the right to express their faith and put up Chabad houses all over the world without being charged that they have left the faith and the fold, don’t we have the same right who believe Yeshua of Nazareth to be our promised Messiah?

Have I, a German Jewess, native from Breslau, a second generation Holocaust survivor who has suffered the loss of all except for my life, having endured many evils for being Jewish, no longer the right to call myself Jewish because of my faith in Yeshua of Nazareth? 

If I should deny Him Whom I have seen and heard, Who revealed Himself alive and made Himself known to me^J as Yoseph did to his brethren, then He will deny me and say that He never knew me and call me an evil doer..

Chief Rabbi Metzger protests against Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” saying: "It is regrettable that a tendentious, malicious film should undermine the progress (at reconciliation) that we have worked for with such great care…"?^Y

I more than understand the rabbi’s concern. Yet, for the first time a movie was created about Yeshua's suffering that was not “politically correct” but came awfully close to the truth. For this is what Messiah, Son of Yoseph the Suffering Servant, was made to endure – for OUR sake! It always have been the ignorant and Jew-haters who have persecuted us for having “killed G-d,” for being “Jesus murderers.” But it were neither Jews, Greeks, Romans or barbarians who killed Yeshua – it were our sins. For, and unto sin, Yeshua bore the false accusations, mockings, beatings, the crucifixion, and death – so that we may live with Him forevermore, no longer under the dominion of sin and death. 

*  http://www.appleofhiseye.org/Newsletters/NewsfromIsrael/tabid/884/Default.aspx
^L Therefore G-d says in Ps 101:5, that He will destroy the one who [secretly] slanders his neighbor (and we are all neighbors of each other according to the commandment). And in Ps 50:16-21 G-d speaks to the wicked, saying, "What right have you to recite My statutes, or take My covenant on your lips? ...You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother [like Deri on Arutz 7]; you slander your own mother's son. These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you..."
     May the Lord our G-d accomplish this very thing by means of the trial in Beer-Sheva, and may our persecutors be cut to the heart and repent, and G-d, by His infinite mercy and grace, reveal Messiah Yeshua to them.
^J See A TRUE STORY
^Y http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11451-2004Feb27.html