Rabbi who nurtured evangelical love for Israel courts black churches

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(RNS) The rabbi who has for decades painstakingly and successfully nurtured evangelicals’ love for Israel now extends his hand to African-American churches.

“I felt the need to reach out again, to the African-American Christian community,” said Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which collects more than $125 million annually for social welfare projects in Israel, mostly from Christian donors. “The potential of beginning dialogues and fostering cooperation between blacks and Jews in America is great.”