In 1894, Leopold Cohn, an immigrant from Hungary, going by the title of“rabbi,” began an organization in Brownsville, New York, dedicated to helping his fellow Jews find spiritual awakening and bring them close to religion. The Brownsville Mission to the Jews was dedicated to converting Jews to Christianity.
There is some dispute about whether his real name was Leopold Cohn and whether he in fact ever trained as a rabbi. Already in 1913, a lawsuit was filed claiming that Leopold Cohn’s real name was Itsak Leib Joszovics, and he really was a saloonkeeper
who had been arrested and sentenced for fraud in Hungary in 1891. They claimed that he had escaped from Hungary, leaving behind his wife and children, to avoid prison.
Whatever his real name was, Cohn managed to create a new life for himself in America as a missionary to the Jews. After his own conversion to Christianity, he founded the Brownsville Mission to the Jews, which later moved to Williamsburg and became the Williamsburg Mission to the Jews. In later years, it changed its name to the American Board of Missions to the Jews, and in 1988, changed its name to Chosen People Ministries (CPM).
CPM is the second-largest organization in the world dedicated to Christians proselytizing to Jews, the largest being Jews for J which is also an offshoot of the original CPM that was founded.
It was founded by a former employee of CPM. They claim success in their mission to cause Jews to stray to Christianity, by falsely claiming that doing so is compatible with being Jewish. They have a massive presence in Israel, entrapping legions of Jews with little knowledge of their true heritage.
And now, with the new multimillion dollar Charles L. Feinberg Messianic Center going up in the middle of Flatbush, CPM has announced that it is targeting what would be the biggest prize in evangelism to Jews: the Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn.
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