This is a longer article than I usually post here, but I think it is a follow-up to a previous one, and I believe it may be of interest to readers. There are many things I would like to say, but I cannot now. From Caspari Center Media Review: Makor Rishon, November 2, 2012 Ayelet… Read More »
From the Caspari Center Media Review: Segula, October 3, 2012 This eight-page feature article relates the history of the establishment of the first missionary hospital in Jerusalem, in 1842, by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. The conditions in Israel at the time were bleak: 80% of children born in the land… Read More »
From ICEJ News: Yad Hashmona, the Messianic Jewish Moshav near Jerusalem, was handed a devastating legal defeat on Wednesday when the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ruled that it had acted improperly in refusing to allow a lesbian couple to have a wedding reception in the Moshav events hall and ordered the Moshav to pay damages to… Read More »
I heartily concur with David Murray’s list of 10 Problems with Old Testament Teaching. Messianic Jews are being persecuted in Mevasseret Zion (the town where the closest mall to Yad HaShmonah is). That times have changed (on the computer) is clear from the fact that Google Desktop is being retired. TMC is ranked #2 again… Read More »
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… Read More »
From the Caspari Media Review: In an extremely lengthy article published in Haaretz (October 2), Yuval Azulai suggested that the Israeli Ministry of the Interior works hand in hand with the anti-missionary organization Yad L’Achim, making use of details and acting against Messianic Jews on the basis of information supplied by its members. The multi-headlined… Read More »
Yom Kippur begins at sundown, and if you ‘re interested in reading what the Bible says about it, read Leviticus 16. It’s also mentioned in “God’s calendar” of appointed times in Leviticus 23. What God desires and delights in fasting is given in Isaiah 58. Of course, the final “day of atonement” is described in… Read More »
If Yad HaShmonah is not on your prayer list already, here’s another reason to add them: Several months ago, a same-sex couple petitioned the courts in Israel in an attempt to sue the religiously affiliated commune Yad Hadmashona for punitive damages. According to the petitioners, the moshav prohibited them from holding their marriage celebration on… Read More »
On Wednesday of this week, according to a source not friendly to believers, ynetnews: Messianic Jews took to the streets of the central city of Rehovot on Wednesday and handed out pamphlets of the New Testament in an attempt to convince passersby to convert. Ultra-Orthodox residents were outraged by the site and began beating the… Read More »
This article in the Jerusalem Post features a number of former neighbors at Yad HaShmonah, talking about their faith. Like most religious Zionists, Aryeh Bar-David sees the hand of God in the establishment of the Jewish state and the Jewish people’s repeated victories against its enemies. Yom Ha’atzmaut has religious meaning as a tangible sign… Read More »