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The Zionist organization United Israel Bulletin (UIB) has published Charles Russell's prophecies on Zionism for years and they are read by devote Russellites even today. The UIB is still in contact with Russellite families and stresses the universality of the Hebrew Bible which it calls a "blueprint for life".
Source For Below: Pastor Charles Taze Russell: An Early American Christian Zionist by David Horowitz
Pages 10-11
The seeds Pastor Russell had sown bore good fruit. His
writings and works have been widely published, and to this day
tens of thousands of loyal devotees are to be found around the
world, especially in the United States.
Among these devotees was the late John J. Hoefle, who
directed the Epiphany Bible Students Association at Mount
Dora, Florida. Having lived a long and fruitful life. Pilgrim
Hoefle was gathered unto his fathers in April of 1984 at the age
of eighty-nine.
This writer enjoyed a close and friendly contact with the
Hoefle family, and has continued keeping in touch with his
devoted widow, Emily. For years she has been following the
Pastor Russell features appearing in the United Israel Bulletin,
as have hundreds of other loyal students of the renowned
Pastor. Mrs. Hoefle, in discussions with the writer, expressed
the need in these critical days facing mankind for making some
move to bring into the light of day the historic life and works of
the noted Bible scholar who was such an ardent Zionist.
As a beginning, it was agreed that a book would be pub-
lished to incorporate the basic Russell articles that have
appeared in the United Israel Bulletin, and that the volume
would be dedicated to her husband, John J. Hoefle, one of the
Pastor's most loyal champions.
This writer is the editor of the United Israel Bulletin—a
publication basically Jewish—Hebraic in nature and stressing
the universality of the Hebrew Bible, which it calls "Blueprint
of Life" as recounting prophetically the history and future of
the children of Israel, in all their twelve tribes, as well as the
destiny of all nations. Pastor Russell's clear insight into the
prophecies of the Bible concerning the resurrection of Israel in
the Holy Land have intrigued and interested this writer. It was
therefore decided to publish these prophecies of Russell's—an
action resulting in hundreds of contacts with his devotees
around the world.
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After returning from Palestine, Charles Russell was invited by elite NYC Jews to give a lecture to the Jewish community at the Hippodrome in 1910.
Source For Below: Pastor Charles Taze Russell: An Early American Christian Zionist by David Horowitz
Page 10
After traveling around the world and following a visit to the
then-very-much-neglected Palestine, he returned to the United
States and accepted an invitation from some of New York's
outstanding Jewish leaders to address a mass meeting at the
Hippodrome on October 9, 1910.
Charles Taze Russell was such a Zionist he preceded Theodor Herzl, the Jewish pseudo-founder of the Zionist movement, in his Zionism. Interestingly enough, his Jewish fans are "proclaiming Mosaic Law for One World".
Source For Below: Pastor Charles Taze Russell: An Early American Christian Zionist by David Horowitz
Pages 9-10
For some fifteen years, the United Israel Bulletin—estab-
lished in 1944 as the official publication of the United Israel
World Union, proclaiming Mosaic Law for One World and
stressing the biblical prophecies relating to the return of the
children of Israel to their ancient homeland—has published a
series of articles dealing with the prophecies propounded by the
late Pastor Charles Taze Russell pointing to the destiny of the
Jewish people.
Having preceded the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor
Herzl, in his espousal of the descendants of the Hebrew
prophets, Russell stood out at the turn of the century as one of
the very first American Christian Bible scholars to predict the
return of Israel to their ancient homeland.
Charles Taze Russel is a big name even in modern Judaism. He has been praised by Benjamin Netanyahu, Bar Ilan University, and B'nai B'rith.
Source For Below: Pastor Charles Taze Russell: An early American Christian Zionist by David Horowitz
Found in the Preface
The response to the first edition of this volume has been encouraging.
Favorable reactions have come from many parts of the
world, not only from devoted Pastor Russell Bible Students but also
from hundreds of both Jewish and non-Jewish champions of the
Bible and supporters of Israel who have found a new bright light in
the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish Pastor Russell teachings cited in this
book and in his voluminous works.
Among some of the prominent Jewish leaders who have found
this work of much value are, in addition to the former Israeli
Ambassador to the UN, Dr. Benjamin Netanyahu—cited on the
jacket along with the encouraging comment from Dr. Jeane
Kirkpa trick—the noted world Jewish leader. Chancellor of Bar Ilan
University in Israel, Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, and B'nai B'rith
International's UN representative. Dr. Harris O. Schoenberg.
"Thanks very much for your book on Pastor Russell," Rabbi
Rackman wrote. "Indeed, I learned much from it—^not only about
him but also about that which happened after his death. You have
earned our gratitude, even as you have earned his from his eternal
rest."
Dr. Schoenberg: "I have been privileged to know you for close
to two decades and to visit many times your 'Jewish corner' at the
UN. . . I have also noted the spiritual quality you bring to your
work... It is, I believe, this quality that led you to publish the story
of 'Pastor Charles Taze Russell: An Early American Christian
Zionist.' Your account of Pastor Russell's remarkable reflections
on Judaism and Zionism provides new insight into the history of
support for the Zionist movement in America, and I congratulate
you on this achievement...
"Very few at the UN these days remember the teaching that
humans were created in the image of God. It is, of course, a Jewish
teaching, but within its parameters a philosophy of sanctification
of the human spirit and dedication to human rights is set out. This
is something Pastor Russell understood, and I am sure he would
have agreed with me in associating this teaching with you."
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