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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