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The time of our joy
2020 may have been the first year since the advent of modern Israel, perhaps since the days of Nehemiah, that Israeli Jews were not allowed to celebrate Sukkot as their hearts desired. “We cannot all be under the sukkah together this year,” blogged The Times of...
Gateway Center for Israel – An exemplary model of Unity with Messianics
Over forty years ago, Pastor Olen Griffing and his wife Syble sat down at Shady Grove Church in Texas to watch a documentary about Nazis performing medical experiments on Jewish people in the concentration camps. Their hearts were broken, they cried and realized the...
Ministering on the Hummus Trail
Many Israelis found themselves stuck in India due to the spread of the coronavirus. Other Israelis were happy to stay. Indian pastors Andrew and Lavanya Yelchuri offer a helping hand to all… I don’t like you, but I like Jesus. Andrew Yelchuri and his wife, Lavanya,...
Finding a Jewish Messiah
When one meets Michelle Beadle, it makes sense to ask, “What’s a nice Jewish woman like you doing in a place like this?” A woman of faith and action, the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Michelle travels across the nation and throughout the world...
Pride and Proportion
No other other event in Israel’s latter-day annals has more decisively altered relationships with her neighbors than the 1973 Yom Kippur War. This October marks the forty eighth anniversary of the conflict which was a miraculous victory—as well as a shocking sequence...
A New Political Landscape in HaAretz
For the last two years the Israeli political system, as well as many other political systems throughout the world, have encountered tumultuous times. Benjamin Netanyahu’s long reign as Prime Minister of the Government of Israel has been challenged like no other....
The Jerusalem Fire of ’21
Early Sunday afternoon, the light streaming through the window beside my desk changed from a common, pale blue to an eerie golden glow. Coincidentally, or so I thought, my wife had received a snapshot on social media of a huge, stunning and oddly isolated cloud taken...
Ulpan and Tough Love
In Israel, it’s a good idea to get out of the house as least as often as we hold national elections. An opportunity to do so arose for my wife Marcia recently between outbreaks of COVID variants, and she went shopping with a friend. I won’t pretend to...
Author David Horowitz on Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America
Messianic Times writer, Susan Silver, conducted a recent video interview with David Horowitz, best-selling author of The Enemy Within (and more than 50 other books) that focused on his life and his book, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America. Silver: Talk...
Preparing Your Heart for Rosh Hashanah
Rosh HaShanah may be weeks away, but the high holidays are already in the air. There is no doubt that the Jewish new year, Rosh HaShanah, differs from the new year that much of the world celebrates on January 1—no midnight countdown, no party hats, or fireworks....
From Mountaintop to Mountaintop
Dean Chariker was born and raised in a typical Daati Leumi (Modern Orthodox) family in Israel. They kept the laws of Kashrut, they strictly kept Shabbat, they went to synagogue and prayed three times a day. Wearing a kippah and tallit katan was a given for the men....
From Magical Misery Tour To Yeshua’s Love Train
Myles and Katharine Weiss are familiar faces to millions around the world due to hosting the weekly Zola Levitt Presents broadcast for six years. They left Zola in 2017, but not before one of their two sons fell in love with and married the daughter of Marcus and...