Issues
We want to have honest conversations with open-minded Jewish people about issues that deeply affect our people and how these issues relate to Jesus.
We realize these are not static issues, but part of ongoing conversations our people have been having for thousands of years. We want to hear your voice too. Send us an email or chat with us live!
The Ultimate Scapegoat
August 18 2015Someone has already taken the blame for all of our wrongdoing. But we must acknowledge him as God’s scapegoat, the atonement for our sins.
Bored and Hungry: Why Millennials will be Falling Asleep in Services this Yom Kippur
August 18 2015When a third of Jewish Americans born after 1980 describe themselves as having no religion, how many of us will make an appearance at temple for the High Holidays this year?
I Shook Hitler’s Hand
March 18 2015Many Jewish people are afraid to open the New Testament because of what so-called “Christians” have done in the name of Jesus.
An Open Letter to Christian Friends from a Jew in France
March 18 2015Anti-Semitism threatens the foundations of the Christian faith and undermines the saving message of the gospel.
Sobibor's Sock Knitters
March 22 2014Knitting is just a hobby for me. But in the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in Eastern Poland, knitting saved several Jewish women from death.
Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World
January 09 2014Tikkun olam has become a favorite Hebrew catch phrase for repairing the world. But this is not possible until our own hearts are repaired. Is there someone who can do that?
From Kung Fu to Kabbalah ... to Messiah
May 01 2013As in the ancient days of the Pharaoh, my mother's family was forced to flee from Egypt in 1952, a…
Andrew Klavan
November 09 2011The Serious Business of Storytelling Andrew Klavan is the author of such internationally bestselling novels as True Crime, filmed by and starring Clint Eastwood, and Don’t Say A Word, made into a film starring Michael Douglas. Klavan has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award five times and has won twice. His books have been translated around the world.
What Other Jewish Authors Say About Jesus
August 28 2011Read the lead article to see what Jewish novelist Andrew Klavan says about Jesus. Sholem Asch (1880-1957), who wrote in…
Hide and Seek: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Maria Weinstein
April 28 2011Outside, she could hear the matches scratching. As the village around them exploded in flames, the Nazis attempted to set the last house alight. Within these walls, Maria Weinstein huddled in the embrace of her newly adopted family. There, amid the chaos, Jew and gentile united as one family in fervent prayer.
In Their Own Words: Messianic Jewish Holocaust Survivors
March 11 2011Vera Schlamm One of the questions I was asked frequently when I first came to this country is: Was it…
Jesus’ Last Week Leading Up to Passover: A Day-by-Day Look
March 09 2011Learn how Jesus spent his last week leading up to Passover, culminating in his death and resurrection.
Unto Us A Son Is Given
November 15 2010Note: excerpted from Messianic Christology, by Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Founder/Director of Ariel Ministries Isaiah 9:6-7 6 For a child will…
Kabbalah’s Best Kept Secret?
February 09 2010"God as a trinity? No way!" "We Jews don't believe in the idea of a divine incarnation!" For many Jews, these statements are givens. Or are they?
Guess Who's Coming to the Seder?
December 22 2009Every year Macabbi Tel Aviv faces off against its rival, Hapoel Tel Aviv, in a soccer match. The game is…
Yartzheit for the Cardinal
May 30 2008Jean-Marie Lustiger walked nervously up to the dais to preside over his first mass. The church was packed and the…
Don't All Good People Go to Heaven?
January 21 2008Many people do not believe in a literal heaven so for them, the question “Who goes there?” is moot. The late Dr. Louis Goldberg once told of the time that he went into the store of a Jewish proprietor:
A look at one of the predictions of the Messiah's coming in the Hebrew Scriptures
November 15 2006Critics have said that Mary and Joseph arranged to have Jesus born in Bethlehem to fulfill the prophecy, but the historical events of that day refute that.
The New Testament: Contradictory or Consistent?
August 15 2006Some efforts to resolve various difficulties the Bible presents have been simplistic, naive or sometimes even seemingly desperate.
Promises, Promises: The Concept of Covenant and Why We Should Care
August 01 2005A summary of God’s covenants with the Jewish people.