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9/11 We Will Always Remember
Where were you on 9/11? This question has been asked over and over again during the past twenty years since that dreadful day. Many of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the horrific news about the first plane hitting the World...
If you Don’t Laugh…You’ll Cry
Jewish intermarriage has recently come into focus as a critical, international problem. It seems that a team of Harvard geneticists, in an acclaimed, peer-reviewed study has recently concluded that, unless something is done soon to stem the growing trend of Jewish men...
Origins and Fables of Giving Gifts at Hanukkah
In the article Jews and Christmas, by Rabbi Joshua E. Plaut that’s published on the website, My Jewish Learning, he muses how the Christmas season has influenced the Hanukkah festival among the Jewish communities throughout Europe and Western society in the last one...
The Berger Brothers’ Lives with the Messiah
Brothers Benjamin and Reuven Berger were born in New York City to parents who had barely escaped the Shoah. They were observant Orthodox Jews living in a Jewish neighborhood, attending Yeshiva until the end of high school. After studying architecture and design in...
The Not So Silent Years
In the last book of the Tanach (“the Old Testament”), the prophet, Malachi in about 430 BC, voiced the promise of the prophet, Elijah’s, return. Four centuries later, John the Baptist, in the spirit of Elijah, began crying in the wilderness (as prophesied by Isaiah...
The time of our joy
2020 may have been the first year since the advent of modern Israel, perhaps since the days of Nehemiah, that Israeli Jews were not allowed to celebrate Sukkot as their hearts desired. “We cannot all be under the sukkah together this year,” blogged The Times of...
Gateway Center for Israel – An exemplary model of Unity with Messianics
Over forty years ago, Pastor Olen Griffing and his wife Syble sat down at Shady Grove Church in Texas to watch a documentary about Nazis performing medical experiments on Jewish people in the concentration camps. Their hearts were broken, they cried and realized the...
Ministering on the Hummus Trail
Many Israelis found themselves stuck in India due to the spread of the coronavirus. Other Israelis were happy to stay. Indian pastors Andrew and Lavanya Yelchuri offer a helping hand to all… I don’t like you, but I like Jesus. Andrew Yelchuri and his wife, Lavanya,...
Finding a Jewish Messiah
When one meets Michelle Beadle, it makes sense to ask, “What’s a nice Jewish woman like you doing in a place like this?” A woman of faith and action, the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Michelle travels across the nation and throughout the world...
Pride and Proportion
No other other event in Israel’s latter-day annals has more decisively altered relationships with her neighbors than the 1973 Yom Kippur War. This October marks the forty eighth anniversary of the conflict which was a miraculous victory—as well as a shocking sequence...
A New Political Landscape in HaAretz
For the last two years the Israeli political system, as well as many other political systems throughout the world, have encountered tumultuous times. Benjamin Netanyahu’s long reign as Prime Minister of the Government of Israel has been challenged like no other....
The Jerusalem Fire of ’21
Early Sunday afternoon, the light streaming through the window beside my desk changed from a common, pale blue to an eerie golden glow. Coincidentally, or so I thought, my wife had received a snapshot on social media of a huge, stunning and oddly isolated cloud taken...