Match Made in Heaven: Why the Jews Need the Evangelicals and
By Zev Chafets
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Over the course of an extraordinary year, Zev Chafets—former New York Daily News columnist and onetime director of the Israeli government press office—traveled the world to explore the improbable confluence of Jews and evangelicals. He spent quality time with Jerry Falwell, visited Jewish cadets at West Point, attended the world's biggest Christian retail show, embarked on a road trip with the rabbi with the largest gentile following since Jesus, journeyed to the Holy Land with a band of repentant Christian pilgrims, and broke bread with George W. Bush and five hundred fellow Jewish Republicans.
A Match Made in Heaven is the penetrating, engaging, and often hilarious narrative of Chafets's determined quest to get to the root of a very serious question: Why do evangelicals support Israel so strongly? Equal parts history, comedy, travelogue, and political tract, it is a smart and adventurous odyssey along a rapidly changing religious and political border.
Zev Chafets
Zev Chafets is the author of ten books, including A Match Made in Heaven, Members of the Tribe, and The Devil's Night. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, among many other periodicals, a former columnist for the New York Daily News, and the founding editor of Jerusalem Report. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and children.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The author, though born in the US, spent 33 years in Jerusalem working in various capacities with the government and in journalism. He adopts the Israeli view of gratitude for the unconditional support of evangelical Christians for the State of Israel and spends a year researching the many facets of the evangelical world. Written with insight and perception and with a rare even-handedness when it comes to portraying evangelicals.