September 1993 Newsletter (5753:11)

Learn about the history, significance and traditions of the Jewish prayer shawl.

Moses was startled! He had spent forty years shepherding. He knew each rock and rill, each barren spot and where the grass grew tall. As shepherds do, he knew each of his sheep by name, and probably had named some of the predators as well. Not much happened during...

The ritual most frequently associated with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (in most English translations of the Bible called the Feast of Trumpets*), is the sounding of the shofar (ram’s horn) in the synagogue. By Jewish tradition, a person who has not...

Albert Schweitzer was born in Germany in 1875. By the age of 21 he had become a brilliant organist, an international authority on organs and organ construction, and an expert on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. Schweitzer’s future looked settled, secure and...

One day I received a phone call from Sarah, one of our Jewish contacts. (She says she thinks that she believes—but she has not actually accepted Jesus into her life yet. She stalls each time I press her on the subject.) Sarah said a French Jewish friend of hers, a...

In the Jewish community, young boys learn to read Hebrew so that at the age of 13 they will be able to become a bar mitzvah (son of the commandment). The bar mitzvah is a liturgical rite of passage when Jewish boys publicly read for the first time from the Hebrew...

In Volume 9:5753 of this Newsletter we defined the word cult” and defended Jews for Jesus from that false designation by pointing out among other things, we do not live communally, as cults often do, but in individual homes. Nevertheless, we do not believe—nor...

In September, 1973, Jews for Jesus became an independent evangelical ministry. The articles of incorporation were drawn up at Moishe Rosen’s kitchen table in Terra Linda, California by Byron Spradlin, chairman of our board of directors. As we go into our 21st...