In this second interview Rabbi Chaim Eisen further explains why the covenant with Noah is so important. From Judaism’s perspective it is the essential basis of the morality that provides the basis for the redemption of each and every human being. (more…)
Rabbi Chaim Eisen is a Torah believing Rabbi who tries to build relationships between Jews and Christians. In this first part of a series of interviews he speaks about Judaism, and the meaning of the Torah. He explains that the Torah is the binding way of life given to Israel by God at the revelation of Sinai. (more…)
Collapse of the euro, Arab Spring, the rise of extreme Islam, global warming ….. Are we heading for disaster? As Christians we are faced with a fundamental choice. We are inclined to forget that God created this world, and that He is in full control of its redemption. Sometimes with good intentions, sometimes through ignorance, we think that WE have to redeem the world, and save it from destruction. But there is another way of looking at things. And that is to study God’s word and discover how HE intends to fulfil His promise to Abraham – “I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you … and all peoples of the earth will be blessed through you”. A new documentary series produced by Hatikvah Trust and presented by Lance Lambert is intended to help us discover God’s plans to save this earth. (more…)
By Dexter Van Zile. The god that inheres in the WCC statements about the Middle East is obsessed with Jewish sin and scared to death of Muslim extremists. Such a craven and anti-Semitic god is not worthy of worship, but that is the god implicitly proffered by the WCC in its public witness about the conflict and about the region as a whole. (more…)
by Dexter Van Zile. For the past year, audiences of Christians in the United States and Great Britain have been treated to an anti-Israel extravaganza, With God on Our Side. Produced by Rooftop Productions in 2010, this 82-minute movie purports to be a documentary about Christian Zionism and its impact on the prospects for peace between Israel and its adversaries in the Middle East. (more…)
The world is in a complete mess, and getting worse. God desperately wants to redeem the fallen creation. The question all of us have to answer is whether we accept and submit to God’s plans to redeem this world, or try to fix things ourselves.
To hate the Jews is to hate the God of the Jews. This emerges clearly from the psalmist’s loud lament to Heaven, out of the depths of the misery of the Jewish people: “O God, do You not see it all? (more…)
Review of Mark S. Kinzer, Post-Missionary Messianic Judaism. Redefining Christian Engagement with the Jewish People. Grand Rapids 2005… A Jew who believes in Jesus as the Messiah, is he a Jew or a Christian? Jesus believing Jews give different answers to the question. The history of the Messianic movement – as it is commonly known today – could even be divided into periods corresponding to these answers. (more…)
Manfred Gerstenfeld… Out of the total Dutch population of 16 million, Jews represent about two in every thousand. Jews often play a symbolic role in Dutch society which exceeds their actual importance. One facet of this is their image as absolute victims. Second, the Jewish community has on various occasions been used by Dutch authorities as instruments in achieving political goals. (more…)
By Elisa Moed.. After four months of lagging tourism numbers compared to the record-setting level of 2010, Israel’s fortunes seem to have turned as the number of visitors to the Holy Land in the month of May was higher than the same month last year – a 5 percent increase over the former record. (more…)
