Is Believing in Yeshua Becoming More Acceptable?

October 16, 2013 A recent Pew Research Center poll in the United States reveals that six in 10 Jews consider being Jewish a matter of ancestry, culture and values rather than religious observance. Interestingly enough, almost half (42%) place a sense of humor as basic to Jewish identity, while just a fifth (19%) consider the observance of Jewish law as essential.

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Keeping It Holy: The Shabbat in Israel and Around the World

July 1, 2013 Life seems to come to a standstill on Friday nights in Israel. As the cool of the evening sweeps in, a calm announces the Shabbat - day of rest. There is nothing that more personifies Judaism and the Jewish People than the Jewish Sabbath. The Shabbat has been kept as the one day of the week devoted to rest ever since it was given as law to the Israelites by Moses.

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Friendly Soccer Game Offends Fatah Sentiments

May 30, 2013 Recently, Fatah members in the Palestinian Authority government threatened Palestinian youth with violence after they played alongside Israelis in a soccer tournament called “Neighbors United.”

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End-Time Signs: Earthquakes, Chemtrails, Persecution and Same-Sex Marriage

May 27, 2013 In the wake of last week’s devastating Oklahoma tornado, our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Moore, Oklahoma, many of whom have lost everything. A massive EF4 twister cut a 20-mile path of destruction across this US town of 55,000, packing wind speeds of up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph). As children hid in closets and clung to walls, two schools were leveled. Many houses were also totally demolished. At least 24 people died and many more were injured. Oklahoma was not the only state to be hit in an outbreak of tornados.

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Parasha Behar-Bechukotai: The Year of Jubilee‏

May 3, 2013 This week, Parasha Behar–Bechukotai outlines a Sabbath rest for the Land in the seventh year. This Sabbatical year, which God gives to Moses for Israel, is called Shemitah (release). They were also to celebrate a year of Jubilee after seven times seven years.

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Parasha Tazria-Metzora (She Conceives-Infected One): Is Telling the Truth with the Wrong Intent Sin?

April 12, 2013 The laws pertaining to purification, including childbirth, purity in marriage (niddah), and leprosy are discussed. These regulations may be understood in purely hygienic terms, for the religious significance, or both. The issue, however, is not one of clean versus unclean, but pure (tahor) versus defiled (tameh).

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Today Is the First Day of Counting the Omer

March 27, 2013 Today is the second day of the week-long festival of Passover (Pesach) and the first day of counting the omer in preparation for Shavuot (Feast of Weeks or Pentecost), which is 50 days from now.

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First Seder Since the Spanish Inquisition – Seder Security Steps Up

March 20, 2013 "How is this night different from all other nights?" is a question asked during a typical Pesach (Passover) Seder, a special ceremonial meal held on the first and second nights of Passover. The northern Spanish town of Ribadavia will hear that question at a Passover Seder held for the first time in more than 520 years, since the 1492 expulsion of Iberian Jews in the Spanish Inquisition.

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Parasha Lech Lecha (Go Forth!): Leaving Home to Go Home

October 26, 2012 Lech Lecha, roughly translated as “Go!” or “Leave!” or “Go ye,” carries one of the most exciting messages in the Bible – God's call to His people to aliyah (literally to go up or to ascend) –to leave country, kindred, and home and go to the Promised Land.

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Parasha Emor (Speak): Discovering the Callings of Holiness

May 10, 2012 People often refer to God’s appointed times as the ”Jewish holidays” and the “Feasts of Israel”. Many non-Jewish Believers don't observe them, fearing that they will appear “too Jewish” or to have “come under the Torah (law).” But God calls them HIS feasts—His appointed times.

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