California Biotech Company Founder Targets Jewish New Yorkers for Religious Conversion in Self-Published Book
Edited by: TJVNews.com
Religious proselytizing apparently is not limited to America’s Bible belt. According to a recent report in the New York Post, New York City residents have been receiving unsolicited copies of a self-published book by a man from California which speaks of being raised as a Jew who has embraced the teachings of Jesus Christ.
The Post reported that the 85-page book written by Tom Cantor and called “Changed” has been arriving in purple envelopes in several Manhattan neighborhoods during the past month.
Speaking to the Post, Sarah Feinmark, who is Jewish and lives on the Upper East Side said the book made her feel “both irritated and uncomfortable.”
“When you get something delivered to your home, it feels like a line has been crossed,” she said. “Of course, we get junk mail all the time, but in this day and age, a time of rampant hate, it immediately felt like an act of anti-Semitism,” she told the Post.
Suzanne Fenech-Pascocello of Gramercy Park told the Post that she received five copies of the book and took them to her building’s recycling room, where she saw a stack of others. She said: “I think it was ridiculous.”
Asked by the Post if he cared those recipients of his book threw them away, Cantor, 71, said that he didn’t.
“There’s going to be some that are going to embrace it and they’re going to say “I love this book, it speaks to my heart,’ he told the Post. “I’m out for those people.”
Apparently, Cantor wrote the book when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, according to the Post report. He also said that he considers himself a Jew who believes in Jesus Christ.
He told the Post: “I want them to find what I found. I found the cure for spiritual cancer.”
Cantor was circumspect with the Post and would not reveal how many copies of his book were distributed and what methods he uses to target the recipients. He told the Post that the book was mailed to recipients in other cities as well over the last several years including, Portland, Detroit and St. Louis.
Cantor does not mind bearing the expense of printing and distributing his book, as was reported by the Post.
He is the founder of Scantibodies Laboratory, a biotechnology company located in Santee, California, the paper reported. On his company web site, his biography says: “When Tom was 19, he had a life changing experience by discovering the great happiness and joy the Bible can bring. Because of that experience, he offers hope and security by reaching out to Jewish people.”
The Post reported that as part of a federal whistleblower lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn in 2009 against Quest Diagnostics and a subsidiary over allegations that some of their tests were unreliable and inaccurate, Cantor won a $45 million award.
