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The Pixies
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ed from; writer and real American ge-
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poleareifL: It was a dark and stormy
worker ; Monday night. Death to the
Bx/'es, a 2-CD eulogy of the Pix-
•anenv ies’ sacred canon from 1987-
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knowalie the shelves of the local record
the main; stores.
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&eet tribute to John Denver.
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jin high.
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plenty more ghosts in its
graveyard. Sure, the Pixies tore
rock ‘n’ roll a new blow hole,
drew the blueprints for grunge
and launched a thousand
bands, but they also stole from
the best of them.
Death to the Pixies, with 17
tracks of “greatest hits” and 21
tracks of live performances,
lays all the cards on the table.
The album opens with “Ce
cilia Ann,” an innocent ‘60s
surf tune so rocket powered it
makes the Surftones original
rendition look like a fizzy bot
tle rocket.
Frank Black created buzz-
saw tone poems, yin and yang
pop songs of the sacred and
profane, the soft and hard,
drawing inspiration from Sal
vador Dali films, his student ex
change days in Puerto Rico and
his Pentecostal upbringing.
His friend and lead guitarist
Joey Santiago made even wank
guitar seem sparse. Black’s
screaming vocals were angeli
cally harmonized by Kim Deal
on bass. David Lovering held it
all together with precision
drumming firing off like can
nons on the 1812 Overture.
When the first piano was in
troduced, it blew the minds of
the baroque harpsichord crowd
because it could go from whis
per to scream in half a heart
beat, like the human voice. The
Pixies share these same dy
namics. They made sforzando
their calling card, laying the
foundation for soft-verse, loud-
chorus bands like Nirvana.
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
may owe more to the chorus of
Boston’s “More Than a Feel
ing,” but without the Pixies, to
day’s AlternaTeens© would
have their bedroom walls cov
ered with posters of Geddy Lee
and Carl Palmer.
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The national organization ‘Jews for Jesus’ believes in Jesus as the
Messiah, but still keeps Jewish traditions, holidays and customs
By Rhonda Reinhart
Staff writer
I esus was a Jew, and the New Tes
tament is based on the premise
that Jesus is the promised Messi-
which is the basic belief of Chris
tianity. The Jewish faith does not rec
ognize this belief, so when an
organization emerges calling itself
Jews for Jesus, confusion and con
troversy are inevitable responses.
Jews for Jesus began in September
1973 in the San Francisco Bay area.
The organization has a staff of 140
people dispersed throughout nine
countries with branches in 16 cities
worldwide.
Susan Perlman, assistant to
the executive director of Jews for
Jesus, said the organization is
not a church, but a group of
Jews who believe Jesus is the
promised Messiah.
“We believe Jesus died for
our sins, rose from the dead
and that by believing in him,
we have eternal life,” she
said. “There are probably
50,000 Jews in the United
States who believe in Jesus.”
The word “Judaism” has
two equally legitimate mean
ings: the Jewish civilization
and Jewish religion. Members
of Jews for Jesus consider them
selves Jews, even though they be
lieve in Jesus, because they were
born Jews and because they con
tinue in the Jewish traditions. Many
celebrate Jewish holidays and prac
tice Jewish customs.
But the theology behind Jews for
Jesus represent mainstream Christian
thought. Every person on the staff is a
member of an evangelical congrega
tion, and together they represent
many denominations. Jews for Jesus
missionaries are required to have the
same Bible training that would qual
ify them for service in most churches
or foreign missionaries.
However, in the Concise Guide to
Judaism, Roy A. Rosenberg writes
that from the standpoint of Ju
daism, it is a great sin for a Jew to
become an adherent of
another religion.
“When a
Jew does
ed by Abraham.”
Rabbi Peter Tarlow of the Hillel
Foundation, an organization for Jew
ish students at Texas A&M, said any
time a Jew worships a human being,
he ceases to be Jewish.
“Jews for Jesus is a contradiction
of terms,” he said. “It’s
the equivalent of
Christians
so,” he writes,
“he abrogates the
covenant that links him to
his God and his people, the obliga
tion that he and his descendants
have to preserve the heritage initiat-
for Buddhism
or scholars for ig
norance.”
Tarlow said Jews for Jesus is a
group of Christians who are trying to
convert Jews.
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“This is a Christian organization
that pretends to be Jewish,” he said.
“It’s a marketing ploy. It’s cult-like.”
Perlman said there is nothing
cult-like about Jews for Jesus.
“We were born Jews and will die
Jews,” she said. “We are not ashamed
of our Jewish identity, and we are also
not ashamed of our faith in Jesus.
Our name says it all. I would call that
truth in advertising.”
Perlman said believing in Jesus is
one of the most Jewish things a per
son can do.
Jews for Jesus has mobile evan-
^gelical teams that tour the United
^States 11 months of the year using
.music, drama, literature distrib-
L ution and visitation to spread
k their message to areas not cov-
kered by the established
^branches. Jews for Jesus pro
duces a bi-monthly publica
tion called Issues and a
■quarterly publication titled
^Mishpochah Message. Each
Jis specifically designed to
[meet the needs of Jewish
(people who believe in Jesus.
Although Jews for Jesus
Flakes great measures to con-
Fvey their message to world-
r wide audiences, some Jewish
r people like Tarlow find their ef-
r forts offensive.
“Most Jews ignore it,” he said.
r “It’s kind of an insulting name. Most
Jews for Jesus were never Jews.”
Perlman said being Jewish is more
than a manner of identity.
“It’s being part of the people with
whom God made covenants begin
ning with Abraham, Moses and
David,” she said. “We understand why
some rabbis are less than enamored
with us. But if they knew what we
know about Jesus, they would be for
Jesus too.”
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