By Alan Shore To the Jew First, which takes the Apostle Paul’s proclamation in Romans 1:16 as its organizing principle, is a collection of papers that were offered at a series of conferences of the same title in New York City and Florida in 2000 and 2001. Contributors from a variety of learning institutions and […]
By Ben Volman It is a widely-held misconception that a Jewish person who follows Yeshua as Messiah is no longer Jewish. This view has been mistakenly repeated both by Christians and Jews. But if well-known atheists such as Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are still considered Jews, how could a dedicated Jewish follower of a […]
Is modern-day Israel the fulfillment of prophecy? In this article we will consider and evaluate various positions and determine whether it is or not. A Closer Look at Replacement Theology What is “replacement theology”? This theology claims that because of the Jewish people’s disobedience and general rejection of Messiah, God has rejected Israel and replaced […]
Little is known about Carl Lutz, a man who helped save the lives of thousands of Jews in Budapest during World War II. Lutz was born in Switzerland in 1895, but immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. He stayed in this nation for more than 20 years, studying at Central Wesleyan […]
Jan Karski is unique among the many hundreds of righteous gentiles for his singular effort to bring the truth of Hitler’s campaign against the Jews to light in Western Europe and the United States. He was born in 1914, in a diverse neighborhood of Lodz, Poland, whose population was primarily Jewish. Karski served in a […]
Corrie ten Boom was born in 1892, to a family of Dutch Reformed faith in the Netherlands. Even before the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, the ten Boom family had a history of concern for Jewish people. Her father owned a small jewelry store in the Jewish section of the city, […]
In the space of a mere six months, from July 9, 1944, to January 17, 1945, Swedish architect and businessman Raoul Wallenberg was able – both directly and indirectly – to save 100,000 Jews from extermination. Wallenberg was born in 1912 to a prominent and successful family in Sweden, a privilege that allowed him to […]
By Daniel Nessim If Yeshua (Jesus) intended to create a new religion, He went about it all wrong: He aroused the suspicion, and then the hostility, of the religious establishment. He picked an oddball assortment of disciples, deliberately allowed Himself to fall into harm’s way, left no writings of his own (an essential if you […]
By Ben Volman Many of us who grew up in Jewish homes were told, “It’s impossible for God to become a man.” Indeed, the second commandment forbids Israel to fabricate an image of any living thing for worship (Ex. 20:4). But the issue is much more profound. How does God promise to be present with […]