Their official mission statement is "to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide", & a organization claims to become "one of the most extensive evangelistic outreaches to Jewish people in the world today". It keep close at hand too sent their members when far when Ukraine and Russia.

Based on data from its Executive, Jews for Jesus has several non-Jews inside administrative & staff positions however deploys "only front-line missionaries who are Jewish or married to Jews". [http://www.jfjonline.org/about/corevalues/core4.htm] All the same, a few of the missionaries identify themselves when Jewish when as a matter of fact single their better half, father, or even granddad is Jewish, & these missionaries would non exist as considered Jews inside virtually all of the communities it evangelize.

Critical responses

Jews for Jesus is rejected when "un-Jewish" by Orthodox, Conservativist, Reform, & Reconstructionist Judaism & by other messianic Jewish groups and by several Christians. Its critics charge that Jews for Jesus is Jewish in name, due to the organization's want of Torah observance and the statement of faith undistinguishable from either people of more Evangelical para-church groups.

A Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Wa, an umbrella organization that includes Roman Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran & Presbyterian church groups, hwhen condemned Jews for Jesus as promoting activities "harmful to the spirit of interreligious respect and tolerance". A conference besides denounces a class action's "deceptive proselytizing efforts", stating that after good in "vulnerable populations" like a young or even a aged, these efforts come "tantamount to coerced conversions". [http://www.adl.org/special_reports/jews4jesus/christian_responses.asp] A Rpm. Clark Lobenstine, the Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister & executive of the Conference, has stated that his class action condemns Jews for Jesus and more messianic Jewish groups by title because it "go beyond the bounds of appropriate and ethically based religious outreach". [http://www.rickross.com/reference/jews_for_jesus/jews_for_jesus30.html]

the Board of Governors of The Long Island Council of Churches soft similar sentiments within a statement that "noted with alarm" a "subterfuge and dishonesty" inherent in the "mixing [of] religious symbols in ways which distort their essential meaning", & known when Jews for Jesus as one of a threesome groups all about whom such behavior was alleged. [http://www.adl.org/special_reports/jews4jesus/christian_responses.asp]

A Christian Scholars Class actiin on Christian-Jewish Relations, consisting of Xxii Christian scholars, theologiser, historiographer & clergy from either sextet Christian Protestant denominations and a Roman Catholic Church, issued a statement within September 2002, "A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People", offering x positions "for the consideration of our fellow Christians". Among a two the charted come utilized: "Christians should not target Jews for conversion. Christian worship that teaches contempt for Judaism dishonors God."

A Boca Raton News newspaper wrote within November 2003 article [http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=LOCAL%20NEWS&prid=6689 County Jewish organizations protest evangelical attempt]: Jews for Jesus defends its actions against these charges, stating: Support

Jews for Jesus occurs as member of many evangelistic Christian groups like:

World Evangelical Alliance, Canadian Council for Christian Charities, Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association, Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain, Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability, Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism, National Association of Evangelicals, A Internet Evangelism Coalition, and the World Evangelical Fellowship.

Jews for Jesus actively tries money from either Christians to fund their organization & specifically recruits Christians to operate in their professional.