CMJ USA News & Views

This year, 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the CMJ USA office. We invite all of you to celebrate with CMJ USA this year.

As our Jewish friends and neighbors mourn the Holocaust this month, we must mourn with them, acknowledge the antisemitic failures of the Church, and be ready to stand and suffer with the Jewish people .

Jesus was born to be a king, but he fulfilled a different role, or function, in the days of his earthly ministry. We cannot fully understand the Gospels without understanding him in his role as the Prophet-like-Moses.

Review of a harmonized retelling of the Gospel through the eyes of Simon Peter

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.

Of those who have claimed to be the Messiah of Israel, only Yeshua of Nazareth has drawn the pagan nations toward the God of Israel

Responding to antisemitism in the US

Christ Church Jerusalem to livestream Christmas Eve caroling starting at 8 a.m. ET

In 2001, I had a number of encounters with the Lord. I was to create a memorial to the six million Jews who had perished that would be interwoven with the seven last utterances of Jesus from the crucifixion.

A remembrance of the day Kristine Luken's life was violently taken in the Jerusalem Forest.

When Palestinians and their supporters claim Jesus as their own and deny his Jewishness, they help recreate the conditions for atrocities against Jews

A group of CMJ USA supporters offered us a $75,000 Matching Challenge Gift to help us to reach or even surpass our goals. Partner with us for 2022!

How the Hanukkah story inspired Jewish theology that explains how Jesus’ death atones for the sin of the world

Long-term volunteers urgently needed in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Galilee

In the nearly 80 years since the Holocaust survivors were liberated, how many of us have considered the spiritual powers behind the hatred? John Scott Gruner compels us to consider that question in his novel The Infidel.

The Most Rev. Foley Beach, patron of CMJ USA, encourages Anglicans to support the work of CMJ.

Review on book about Joseph Schereschewsky, a Lithuanian Jewish boy, came to be an Episcopal bishop of Shanghai in the 19th century and the greatest Orientalist of his day, and perhaps of all times.

I was regaling my mother with some of our Israel trip experiences. When I paused in my story to take a breath, she interjected, “Of course you enjoyed yourself there—your great-grandfather was a Jew!”

On the last day of this week-long feast, as water was being drawn to be poured on the altar in the Temple, Jesus of Nazareth made a now-famous pronouncement: ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.'

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.

Continue to keep the Jewish people in prayer, as those who hate the Jewish people sometimes target their attacks during the High Holy Days.

As we enter the Jewish season of High Holy Days, the words “return,” “repentance,” and “turn back” are paramount.

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.

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