10 Facts About Maurice Davis

Maurice Davis served on the President's Commission on Equal Opportunity, in the Lyndon B Johnson Administration and was a director of the American Family Foundation, now known as the International Cultic Studies Association.

Rabbi Maurice Davis married Marion Cronbach, daughter of Rose Hentil and prominent reform rabbi and well-known pacifist Abraham Cronbach.

In 1970, when two of his congregants' children joined the Unification Church of the United States, Maurice Davis educated himself about the nature and methods of groups he considered to be cults.

Maurice Davis directed and appeared in the film, You Can Go Home Again, produced by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

Maurice Davis reported that he observed commonalities among the young people he counseled who had joined the Unification Church.

In 1972, Maurice Davis founded the group Citizens Engaged in Reuniting Families, a national anti-Unification Church organization, which by 1976 was comprised 500 families.

In November 1976, Rabbi Maurice Davis spoke at Temple Israel of Northern Westchester, New York, on "The Moon People And Our Children".

Maurice Davis compared the Unification Church to the Hitler Youth and the Peoples Temple.

In 1990, Maurice Davis criticized people who refer to themselves as Jews for Jesus, Hebrew Christians or Messianic Jews as being "devious" and "deceptive".

Maurice Davis further stated that people who accept Jesus as the Messiah are, by definition, Christians and not Jewish.