Support and Opposition
The Fellowship's interfaith work has generated criticism from some in the Jewish community. In 2001, Rabbi Avraham Shapira issued a ruling against accepting funds from The Fellowship. In 2002 the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical court issued a ruling against accepting funds from The Fellowship, and, in 2007, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss added his signature.
At the end of 2009, other religious rabbis and rabbinical courts issued a ruling banning Jews from taking funds from the The Fellowship, citing worries of Christian missionary activity. and idol worship.In response to the ruling, Eckstein said he would "expose his organization's list of haredi-religious beneficiaries in order "to make sure everything is transparent."
Rabbi James Rudin, a senior interreligious advisor for the American Jewish Community, described Eckstein as "well-respected within the American Jewish mainstream. Until he came along, evangelicals and Jews were like ships passing in the night.”
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