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Messianic Leadership Roundtable – A Legacy of Unity
This past November, hundreds of Messianic leaders from all around the globe gathered to participate in the 15th anniversary of the Messianic Leader- ship Roundtable (MLR) conference. This annual event has been held in Phoenix, AZ and was organized and hosted by Jewish...
Ogrodowa Street: A Dialogue Between Life and Death
Ogrodowa Street is a story of life and death in a one-act play, written by Steffi Rubin, directed by Lynda Clark, and produced by Messianic Literature Outreach. Twenty-four-year-old Rachmiel Frydland smuggles himself into the Warsaw Ghetto with just one thought: to...
Revival in Green
Writing about the Holy Land after his 1867 visit, Mark Twain described it as “rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary...with hardly a tree or shrub anywhere... a rocky, barren, hopeless and heartbroken land.” The first wave of pioneers from Europe in the late 1800s,...
Truth vs Propaganda
It is imperative for our youth to become knowledgeable of the Biblical truth about Israel before they join forces with those who seek to destroy her. May 14, 1948 was a very important date in history, and prophetically, in which many young people are unaware of and...
The Land As Your Classroom
Jerusalem Seminary’s School of the Bible was formally launched on September 8, 2021, during Rosh HaShanah, the Feast of Trumpets, at a celebratory ceremony in Jerusalem. The much-anticipated event was streamed online live from Jerusalem Seminary’s campus downtown,...
Was all this really necessary?
A good friend in the States recently reached out and asked me the seemingly innocent question, “What’s up in Israel?” But, in the age of Corona, any inquiry about events in the Land often leads to contention. Politics, religion, Corona. The primary source of...
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...