Those readers of mine interested in Yad HaShmonah may be want to read this English summary of an article about Messianic Jews in today’s issue of a major Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot. The Caspari Media Review summary begins:
Under the headline "Yeshua Superstar," Yoaz Hendel looked at the Messianic Jewish community in Israel as part of a series on "Who is a Jew?" "They circumcise their children, celebrate bar mitzvah, get married at the rabbinate, but they believe in Yeshua as their Messiah. 15,000 Messianic Jews currently live in Israel. If you met them in the street or the army, you probably wouldn’t know who they are … A Shabbat table loaded with food, the father of the family bends his head and blesses for the food and a good life, everyone holds hands and answers amen. If this scene had been in English, you might have thought that it was an episode of ‘A Little House on the Prairie’ – except that the prairie is the Yad HaShmonah moshav near Jerusalem and those praying are native Hebrew-speaking Israelis – Messianic Jews.
The continuation of the article mentions by name one of our next-door neighbors and one who may be familiar to IBEX students. The article was obviously written by an outsider.