Who Knows One?
Echad Mi Yodea? אחד מי יודע ‘Who Knows One?’ We’re all familiar with this wonderful, cumulative-styled song is sung on Passover, after the conclusion of the Seder. It enumerates common Jewish motifs and teachings. Recitation varies from family to family. The song first had versions in Yiddish and Hebrew, and then many other languages. Sometimes it […]
Sheep? Or Goats?
SHEEP? OR GOATS? In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus reveals that He is coming back, as King, to judge the nations. Please notice that this is not a judgement of individuals, but of nations. He then goes on to illustrate the process of this judgement using a parable. He describes two character traits – based on respective […]
Holocaust Memorial Day, 2018: ‘The Power of Words’
The Power of Words – click to read article
Blow A Trumpet In Zion! Rosh HaShanah, 2017
This time of year finds Jewish people preparing for the ‘High Holy Days’ in the Jewish calendar: Rosh HaShanah (New Year), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and Tabernacles (Succot, or Booths). For this article, we are going to briefly look at the three autumn feasts, but focus on one in particular: the one known in […]
ISRAEL… An accident of history or fulfilment of prophecy?
On May 14, 1948, we saw the modern state of Israel come into being. Even earlier than that, we saw Hebrew revived as a living language, after it had been dead for millennia. Also, to date, we have seen the return of hundreds of thousands of Jewish people, from every corner of the globe, […]
We didn’t do it! It was a set-up!
By Tom Mayr-Lori Some time ago, I gave a New Testament to Peter, a Jewish friend who had shown some interest in Spiritual things. A week or two later we met again and when asked what he had read, he said he had started reading Acts, but stopped after reading that the Jews killed Jesus. […]
Is He Good For The Jews?
Is He Good For The Jews? By Rachmiel Frydland* Jewish people, in their varied and long history of persecution and suffering, have been compelled to evaluate people and events as to whether, or not, they were good for the Jewish people. Thus arose the following story: “The teacher of an international school assigned his […]
Six Million Tragedy
SIX MILLION TRAGEDY By Rachmiel Frydland* More than forty years have passed since the perversity of men contrived to kill, murder and exterminate God’s chosen people, the Jews. Hitler and his associates, like Haman of old, devised a way “to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, […]