{"id":510,"date":"2007-06-07T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/06\/07\/yeshua-superstar\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T22:48:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:48:33","slug":"yeshua-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/yeshua-superstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeshua Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago, the major TV news channel in Israel (Channel 2) aired a documentary on Messianic Jews that was essentially fair.&nbsp; It allowed them to speak for themselves, without the slander that often is present in reporting about believers in Israel.&nbsp; The video is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caspari.com\/YeshuaSuperstar.wmv\">now online<\/a>, with English subtitles.&nbsp; At nine minutes in length, it is too short to give much substance.&nbsp; But it shows normal people who have happy families and who are both intelligent and articulate.&nbsp; Most of those interviewed are my neighbors.&nbsp; One unfortunate part of the video: except by believers, Jesus is referred to as Yeshu, instead of Yeshua.&nbsp; Yeshu is an acronym for the Hebrew expression, &#8220;May his name be blotted out.&#8221;&nbsp; It is the common way of referring to Jesus in Israel.&nbsp; In fact, if you say &#8220;Yeshua,&#8221; most won&#8217;t know who you are talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago, the major TV news channel in Israel (Channel 2) aired a documentary on Messianic Jews that was essentially fair.&nbsp; It allowed them to speak for themselves, without the slander that often is present in reporting about believers in Israel.&nbsp; The video is now online, with English subtitles.&nbsp; At nine minutes in length,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/yeshua-superstar\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}