Talk about intolerance: [A group of religious Zionist rabbis have called for a boycott of this year's International Bible Quiz after discovering that one of the four finalists from Israel is a Messianic Jew who believes Jesus is the true Messiah. Messianics are missionaries who proselytize in very sophisticated ways," said Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, one of the rabbis calling to boycott the quiz. "It is forbidden to give them legitimacy by allowing them to take part in the quiz."]

This is actually kind of silly and these Zionists Rabbis are making an issue out of nothing apparently because they can’t stand those who believe Jesus is Messiah and the Only Begotten Son of GOD. Plainly, the “Global Bible Quiz for Jewish Youth” is for, um, Jewish Youth. Apparently, the Rabbis assumed ‘Jewish’ automatically meant the participants would be Judaism practitioners. Would they have been as upset if this student had ‘no faith?’ And as the gentleman in the article insinuates, are these Zionist Rabbis saying Jews who believe Jesus Christ are not real Jews?

The call to boycott the quiz came after Yad L’Achim, a haredi anti-missionary organization, discovered that one of the finalists, Bat-El Levi, an 11th grader from a high school in Pisgat Ze’ev, was a Messianic Jew.

Levi won this year’s national bible quiz for state schools and will be one of four finalists from Israel competing for the International Bible Quiz Championship on Independence Day.

The Education Ministry said in response to a query from The Jerusalem Post that the “Global Bible Quiz for Jewish Youth” was open only to Jewish pupils. Regarding Messianic Jews, the pupil in question was Jewish, and therefore, according to the ministry’s legal department, was not disqualified from participating.

Calev Myers, founder and chief counsel of the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, an advocacy group that represents members of the Messianic community, said that the rabbis’ call to boycott the quiz was a show of weakness.

“If the participation of a Messianic Jewish lady is enough to shake up those rabbis’ world, it shows the weakness of that world,” said Myers.

“Why should they have a problem with a young woman who knows how to quote from the Bible?

“It is about time that they stop having a monopoly over determining who is a Jew. The beauty of the Jewish world is the diversity. If you can still be considered a Jew even if you believe that the Lubavitch Rebbe [Menachem Mendel Schneerson] is the messiah, the same thing should hold true if you believe Jesus is.”

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