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Sukkot: The Water of Life

3 hours 25 minutes ago
Screen capture of the soon-to-launch Arabic-language website by Christ Church Jerusalem.

Israel: The Lord Takes and He Gives. Blessed Be His Name

COVID-19 has been with us almost two years now and has caused financial strain on CMJ Israel’s infrastructure. Still, we cannot stress enough how aware we are that God is at work through the ministry in Israel.
2 days 8 hours ago
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The High Holy Days: A Time to Pray

Continue to keep the Jewish people in prayer, as those who hate the Jewish people sometimes target their attacks during the High Holy Days.
3 weeks ago
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Hebrew word study: shuv – return, repent

As we enter the Jewish season of High Holy Days, the words “return,” “repentance,” and “turn back” are paramount.
3 weeks ago
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Christians Should Denounce Antisemitic Violence

When I wrote recently about the need for Christians to oppose the growing antisemitic violence in the U.S. and elsewhere, I did not imagine I was saying anything especially controversial.
3 weeks ago
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Christians should fight against antisemitism

If we are to love our neighbors as much as we love our own skins, our spouses, our innocent children asleep on a summer’s afternoon, we must take risks for them
3 weeks ago
Philip Bottomley wearing a camel hair coat

Invite Us for a Visit

If you would like to have a speaker from CMJ come to your church, please write to scheduling@cmj-usa.org. We are eager to share how learning about biblical holidays or studying in Israel can enrich our understanding of the Gospel of Jesus the Messiah.
1 month 4 weeks ago
Amy Winehouse by Fionn Kidney via Flickr (cc)

A Christian's Regret

Ten years ago the world woke up to the tragic news of the alcohol-fuelled death of pop star Amy Winehouse. One of Britain’s best-loved evangelists shares the equally tragic story of how he put off a clear call from God to visit and speak with her.
1 month 4 weeks ago
Flight of the Prisoners by James Tissot (1902)

Av: A Time of Sorrow and Comfort

We have entered the Hebrew month of Av, the fifth month in God’s calendar as instituted in Exodus 12:2. The month of Av has what may be the saddest day of the year for Jewish people, and yet this month of sorrow also speaks of God’s faithfulness and redem
2 months ago
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Loving our neighbor when anti-Semitism spikes

Anti-Semitic incidences – assaults, harassment, vandalism – increased 80 percent in the United States in the month of May.
3 months ago
Capernaum by Steve Conger via Flickr (cc)

Shoresh Study Tours to Israel Re-Open Soon

Soon visitors will be walking at the Mount of Beatitudes and Capernaum in the Galilee, Masada and Ein Gedi near the Dead Sea, and the Temple Mount and the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem.
3 months ago
Henry Aaron Stern preaches Messiah to Beta Israel.

CMJ in Ethiopia: A history of hope

How CMJ has ministered to Ethiopian Jews, then and now.
3 months ago
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How not to read the Bible anti-Semitically

Before the Church can speak out against anti-Semitism without, we must correct the anti-Semitism within. We must examine our exegetical methods for faulty assumptions that (perhaps unconsciously) lead us to anti-Jewish interpretations.
3 months 2 weeks ago
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Shavuot: Creating One New Man

The names Shavuot and Pentecost refer to God’s instructions to the Israelites to count seven full weeks – 49 days – from the waving of the omer on “… the day after the sabbath of Passover”; and on the next day – the 50th – to offer “the firstfruits of you
4 months ago
Rockets from Gaza

Pray for the peace of Israel & Gaza

Many of you have surely been following the news of the recent events overtaking Israel and Gaza. We urge you to pray for our CMJ colleagues in the Land, and we offer some guidance to inform those prayers. The rocketing of the south and central parts of Is
4 months ago
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Remembering our own lost to war & terror

On Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day, CMJ remembers staff and Christ Church Jerusalem members who were lost due to war and terror.
5 months ago
Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak: The Warsaw Ghetto "Pan Doktor"

Books tell stories of many heroes among the Jews forced into the Warsaw Ghetto – some believers in Jesus and others not. Janusz Korczak was among those Jewish heroes, and he cared for hundreds of Jewish children there. Here is a bit of his story.
5 months 4 weeks ago
Sculpture of John Chrysostom

Why Is Good Friday Still Dangerous For Jewish People?

Unfortunately, this Christian holy day has been fraught with anti-Semitism for centuries.
5 months 4 weeks ago
Jesus touches a leper - The Chosen

The Chosen: Gospel TV treat

The Chosen presents Christians with a perfect opportunity to introduce friends and family to a truly awesome, and beautifully scripted, take on the life of Jesus, who is depicted as very down-to-earth and approachable - and clearly Jewish.
5 months 4 weeks ago
Aaron Gann teaches on the origins of Easter

The (non-pagan) origins of Easter

The Holiday of Easter is one of the most widely known celebrations of the Christian Faith. It is commonly taught that this was originally a pagan holiday baptized by the Christian people in the early centuries of the Church. However, the evidence paints a
6 months ago
Bazyli & Anna Jocz book cover

Book on Jewish Christians of Holocaust now published

In 1943, Bazyli was forced to hide in a woodshed while his wife Anna passed as a Gentile Polish woman. But early the next year somebody betrayed them. The Gestapo had come looking for them.
6 months 3 weeks ago
Jewish headstone with stones on top. Image by bernswaelz from Pixabay

CMJ Holocaust Memorial Service

With guest speaker, Susanna Kokkonen, former director of Christian Friends of Yad Vashem. Also presenting will be Kelvin Crombie on the Jewish Christians who died in the Holocaust. Watch archived recording.
7 months 3 weeks ago
Jocz family photo

Bazyli & Anna Jocz: Jewish Christian victims of the Holocaust

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we share with you a talk about Bazyli and Anna Jocz, two Jewish Christians who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Bazyli was killed by the Gestapo, and Anna was paralyzed after being beaten by a Nazi.
7 months 3 weeks ago
In the wilderness, prepare the way

Video: Prepare the Way

Places in the Bible have significant importance. Events occur at certain locations, not by chance but because they provide added emphasis and meaning to the deep truths of God. Geography is theology. So a question arises as we begin the season of Advent:
9 months ago
And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
Zechariah 12:10