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=== Controversies === ==== 1987 β Freedom of speech ==== In ''[[Board of Airport Commissioners of Los Angeles v. Jews for Jesus, Inc.]]'' the [[United States Supreme Court]] unanimously ruled in favor of Jews for Jesus in a [[Freedom of speech|free speech]] case against the [[Los Angeles International Airport]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=L.A. Airport's Free Speech Curb Upset by High Court : 'Jews for Jesus' Win Rights Case |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-15-mn-4296-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 15, 1987 |access-date=July 16, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sekulow |first1=Jay |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Erik |date=2012β2013 |title=Reflections on Jews for Jesus: Twenty-Five Years Later | url=https://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/student_life/studentorgs/lawreview/docs/issues/v25n1/01Sekulowvol.25.1.pdf|journal=Regent University Law Review |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1β23 |access-date=July 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Savage |first=David |date=June 16, 1987 |title=LAX Ban on Soliciting Rejected by High Court : Justices Say Rule Goes Too Far in Limiting Free Speech; Larger Question of Exclusion Ignored |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-16-mn-7711-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 16, 2020 }}</ref> ==== 1998 and 2005β2006 β Online name ==== Jews for Jesus has been involved in litigation regarding Internet use of its name. In 1998 they sued Steven Brodsky for [[cybersquatting]]βregistering the domain name jewsforjesus.org for a site criticizing the organization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/special_reports/jews4jesus/legal_cases.asp|title=Jews for Jesus: Targeting Jews for Conversion β Legal Cases|publisher=Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013190231/http://www.adl.org/special_reports/jews4jesus/legal_cases.asp|archive-date=2012-10-13|url-status=dead}}</ref> The domain now belongs to Jews for Jesus and is used for their main site. In 2005 Jews for Jesus sued<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_sued_for_trademark_infringement_on_third_level_subdomain/ Google Sued for Trademark Infringement Based on Third-Level Subdomain] by [[Eric Goldman]] (CircleID) December 30, 2005</ref> [[Google]] for allowing a [[Blogspot]] user to put up a site at the third-level subdomain ''jewsforjesus.blogspot.com''. In September 2006 ''[[Christianity Today]]'' reported: "Jews for Jesus settled out of court with a critical blogger identified as 'Whistle Blower' on jewsforjesus.blogspot.com. The evangelistic ministry assumed control of the site."<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/september/18.23.html Christianity Today News Briefs] September 1, 2006</ref> ==== 2006 β misuse of Jackie Mason name ==== In 2006 comedian and actor [[Jackie Mason]] filed a lawsuit against Jews for Jesus, alleging that the organization unlawfully distributed a pamphlet that used his name and likeness in a way that suggested he was a member of the group. Jackie Mason was Jewish and not associated with Jews for Jesus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/08/25/jackiemason.ap/index.html|title=Comic sues Jews for Jesus|website=[[CNN]] |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829062832/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/08/25/jackiemason.ap/index.html|archive-date=2006-08-29}}</ref> Jews for Jesus issued a detailed response to the allegation on their website.<ref>[https://jewsforjesus.org/press/press-release-jews-for-jesus-and-jackie-mason/ Press Release: Jews for Jesus and Jackie Mason] (Jews for Jesus) August 25, 2006</ref> A judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]] denied a preliminary injunction against Jews for Jesus over the pamphlet, finding the distribution of the pamphlet to be protected by the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]], and also stated that the pamphlet did not suggest that Mason was a Christian.<ref>[http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20061108jackiemasondenied Jackie Mason Charges Against Jews For Jesus Denied By U.S. District Court] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211161941/http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20061108jackiemasondenied |date=2006-12-11 }}, November 8, 2006</ref> In December 2006, Mason dropped the lawsuit against Jews for Jesus after they issued a letter of apology to him. The group's executive director, [[David Brickner]], stated in the letter to Mason that he wanted "to convey my sincere apologies for any distress that you felt over our tract." Brickner continued that he believed its publication was protected by the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], but the group was willing in the interest of peace and love for Israel to retire the pamphlet. Mason replied in front of the federal court in Manhattan where he accepted the apology, "There's no such thing as a Jew for Jesus. It's like saying a black man is for the [[Ku Klux Klan|KKK]]. You can't be a table and a chair. You're either a Jew or a [[Gentile]]."<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-12-05-mason_x.htm ''USA Today''], [http://nymag.com/daily/intel/tags/religion nymag.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016154929/http://nymag.com/daily/intel/tags/religion |date=2007-10-16 }} (and many others) quoting an Associated Press release, December 4, 2006.</ref> ==== ''That Jew Died for You'' video ==== In 2014, Jews for Jesus published a three-minute [[YouTube]] video called ''That Jew Died for You'', to coincide with [[Passover]], [[Holy Week]] and [[Holocaust Remembrance Day]] on 28 April.<ref name="i20140425">{{cite news|title=Jews for Jesus video showing Jesus being sent to Nazi gas chambers sparks outrage|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jews-for-jesus-video-showing-christ-being-sent-to-a-nazi-gas-chambers-sparks-outrage-9285418.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=25 April 2014|author=Heather Saul|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428121837/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jews-for-jesus-video-showing-christ-being-sent-to-a-nazi-gas-chambers-sparks-outrage-9285418.html|archive-date=2014-04-28|url-status=live}}</ref> A long-haired Jesus dragging a large wooden cross appears in the film until an [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] guard sends him to the gas chambers and says "just another Jew" in German.<ref name="h20140423">{{cite news|title='That Jew died for you' β the 'most tasteless YouTube video ever'?|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.586953|newspaper=Haaretz|date=23 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627110904/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.586953 |archive-date=2014-06-27 |url-status=live}}</ref> Jews for Jesus said that the objective of the film was for Jesus to be identified with the victims rather than the perpetrators of the Holocaust and that "the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] has been used β perhaps more than any other event or topic β to prevent Jewish people from considering the good news of Jesus."<ref name=i20140425/> [[Jay Michaelson]], writing in ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', described it as "the most tasteless YouTube video ever" and wrote: "Not to state the obvious, but it desecrates the memory of six million Jews to use their suffering as a way to convert Jews to Christianity."<ref name="f20140417">{{cite news|title=When Jesus Died at Auschwitz|url=http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/196708/when-jesus-died-at-auschwitz/|newspaper=The Jewish Daily Forward|date=17 April 2014|author=Jay Michaelson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317204933/http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/196708/when-jesus-died-at-auschwitz/ |archive-date=2015-03-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Fox News Channel]] and [[History (American TV channel)|History]] refused to play an advertisement for the film.<ref name=h20140423/>
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