“In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain.” 1 Timothy 3:8
Many have no doubt seen the rather frequent and emotion-laden advertisements on Fox News asking for your donations to help struggling Jewish people around the world. The ads come from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) founded and run by Rabbi Yeckiel Eckstein. Recent ads have featured what the ministry claimed were elderly holocaust survivors in the former Soviet Union and poor Jewish people in Israel. Rabbi Eckstein is said to now have a database of over 1 million Christians who donate to his ministry, so it is clear the ads are effective in stimulating well-intentioned people to donate their money. In the most recent year, the ministry raised over $113 million dollars and millions were indeed spent meeting the needs of Jews around the world. Unfortunately, television advertising is quite expensive, which is why few ministries utilize it. Using the ministry’s audited financial statements, MinistryWatch.com calculates the ministry’s fundraising costs amount to 14% of its revenues, almost three times the level of the average ministry in our database. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), however, allow non-profits considerable leeway in how they handle fundraising expenses. Some observers put IFCJ’s fundraising costs at as high as 39% after adjusting the accounting information to more realistically reflect the ministry’s actual fundraising costs. This is an absurd amount of money being spent on fundraising and donors should be aware that so much of their gifts are being diverted from helping suffering Jews to instead raise more money for IFCJ.
Additionally, Rabbi Eckstein’s total compensation in 2012 amounted to over $1.2 million! Moreover, compensation paid to two of Rabbi Eckstein’s daughters and a son-in law amounts to over $250,000. Combining the adjusted fundraising costs noted above and his compensation, over 40% of a donor dollar goes to fundraising and Rabbi Eckstein’s excessive compensation. While IFCJ clearly also does considerable good work, donors can certainly get a much better “bang for their buck” by supporting other ministries serving the Jewish people. We noted recently the good work of the Joshua Fund and would recommend donors consider it along with Bridges for Peace and Christians Friends of Israel. These are all much smaller ministries (largely because they do not use emotional TV advertising), but which send more of the donor’s gift to help the actual needs that exist, while simultaneously avoiding paying their founders and CEO’s exorbitant compensation.
Given IFCJ’s $116 million in annual revenues, almost all coming from small donors, it is clear that many kind-hearted Christians will respond to emotional appeals for funds believing their hard-earned money will be going mostly to good works. Unfortunately, Rabbi Eckstein’s stewardship of IFCJ leaves much to be desired ad over 1 million donors to IFCJ are currently being duped. Passionate pleas for help must be measured against a rational understanding of the full picture of any ministry’s activities. This is where MinstryWatch.com can help donors who wonder whether they should respond to such approaches that leave out important information, like the exorbitant compensation paid from donor’s donations and the massive amounts spent on TV advertising and other methods of raising funds.
Don’t the f–king Jews get enough money from their financial scheming and from our tax dollars? Anyone who sends them one red cent is subhumanly stupid.
yeah ……. a special kind of stupid
GOOD. MAYBE THE ROTHSCHILDS WILL HELP THEM………..
“NTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEW”…………………….
THERE IS NO SUCH FELLOWSHIP. THERE IS ONLY ONE “ISRAEL” NOW… AND ITS SURE NOT A SPOT OF LAND IN THE MIDDLE EAST……………….ALL MEN ARE PUT ON THE SAME FOOTING BY THE NEW COVENANT…………… THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “JEW OR GREEK; AKA GENTILE……… Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Act 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Act 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
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AND….”1 Cor. 12:13, “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”
Gal. 3:27, “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.”
Since I pick up the mail for my aging mother-in-law, whenever she gets mail for donations for “suffering Jews” I just throw it out. There are suffering Jews (esp. Christian Jews–persecuted by Talmud Jews), but I think I would rather help suffering Christians… As for “Judeo-Christianity” now THAT is an example of being “unequally yoked” (mentioned in a few of the Apostle Paul’s epitstles)
I KNOW RIGHT????????????
OMG! There is an elderly man here in town and sends hundreds of dollars every month to help the ‘persecuted’ joos…..you know…..it’s the Christian thing to do………but never left me a g-damn tip when I waited on him at the café………not that I’m bitter or anything…..hahahaha
NOW THAT RIGHT THERE IS FUNNY. I DONT CARE WHO YE ARE…………….
Please… people…
This is paid announcement.
Do you eat Subway sandwiches.?
Even though a Jew was turd burglaring minors.
Do you enjoy Pizza….?
How about…Chinese food or Mexican cuisine.
Well I have a solution.
We mark all food sources labeled with. .
Non GMO and Not made with pedophile slave Labor in foreign countries.
“In the most recent year, the ministry raised over $113 million dollars and millions were indeed spent meeting the needs of Jews around the world.”
There are some SERIOUSLY stupid people on this planet!
The only jews’ ‘needs’ who were met were the RICH ones.
That insatiable ‘need’ for MORE MAMMON.
I wouldn’t waste a squirt of piss to douse a flaming Talmudist Jew.