“I am Jewish, can I become a Christian?”……Answer: What a wonderful question! Here is my story; the story of another Jew, like yourself, who had asked this very same question many years ago:……I grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in New York, and several years ago I came to believe that Yeshua (Yeshua is […]

“Are Jews saved because they are God’s chosen people? Do Jews have to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved?”……Answer: Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by Me" (John 14:6). The "no one" He referred to includes Jews and Gentiles. Jews are not […]

God's deliverance There is a plant that grows in arid areas of Israel that the Bible uses as a prophetic picture of what is to happen in the future. The plant is the "galgal" (Hebrew: gimel lamed gimel lamed). It is mentioned twice in the Old Testament ├ö├ç├┤ once in Psalm 83 and again in […]

The Messiah Many Jews have long been skeptical of predictions announcing the imminent arrival of the Messiah (MaÔö¼┬íshiÔö¼┬íakh). The first century sage Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai once said: “If you should happen to be holding a sapling in your hand when they tell you that the Messiah has arrived, first plant the sapling and then […]

Talmud/Mishna/Gemara The Jewish community of Palestine suffered horrendous losses during the Great Revolt and the Bar-Kokhba rebellion. Well over a million Jews were killed in the two ill-fated uprisings, and the leading yeshivot, along with thousands of their rabbinical scholars and students, were devastated. This decline in the number of knowledgeable Jews seems to have […]

“What is Judaism and what do Jews believe?”……What is Judaism, and who or what is a Jew? Is Judaism simply a religion? Is it a cultural identity or just an ethnic group? Are Jews a clan of people or are they a nation? What do Jews believe, and do they all believe the same things?……Dictionary […]

The Tanakh Though the word “Bible” is commonly used by non-Jews — as are the terms “Old Testament” and “New Testament” — the appropriate term to use for the Hebrew scriptures (“scripture” is a synonym used by both Jews and non-Jews) is Tanakh. This word is derived from the Hebrew letters of its three components: […]