CMJ USA News & Views

Read about Jewish roots, how to fight antisemitism, and ministry updates.
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The church preacher who gave sermons in Yiddish

Joseph Rabinowitz, a 19th century Hasid who found Jesus, hoped that his Christian-Jewish sect would improve the fate of the Jews
 
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Amazing Grace

As the hymn turns 250, we look at John Newton's intersection with CMJ history
 
The Rev. Cariño Casas

CMJ USA starts the year with a new director

The Board of Directors of CMJ USA is pleased to welcome the Rev. Cariño Casas into her role as our new Executive Director. Cariño had been serving as our Director of Communications since June 2021.
 
In loving memory of Bishop John Rodgers

Remembering John Rodgers, faithful, enthusiastic CMJ supporter 

When John Rodgers walked into a room, in walked encouragement, in walked deep kindness and good cheer. John brought encouragement, kindness, and confidence to the work of CMJ, both in the US and Israel.
 
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History in First Person: Rev. Daryl Fenton

The most recent director of CMJ USA recounts how he met Theresa Newell and how the Lord the ministry to engage churches to build bridges with their Jewish neighbors.
 
CMJ USA 40th anniv logo Cheryl Gonzales

History in First Person: Cheryl Gonzales

The fourth director recounts how the LORD opened her eyes to the Jewishness of Jesus and the Scriptures and then how she led Shoresh USA through a ministry shift as the Second Intifada killed all tourism to Israel
 
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Elizabeth, Servant of the Most High

Charles Gardner of CMJ UK offers tribute to the late Queen, whose affection for the Jewish people ran deep and her respect for Jewish values was 'palpable'
 
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History in First Person: Marcia Lebhar

The third director of then-Shoresh USA recounts how God ignited the ministry under her watch. The time was right for Jewish roots teaching, and the Spirit was calling the Western church to invest in in the Global South.
 
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History in First Person: Rev. Alfred Sawyer

The second director of CMJ USA tells how the Lord caught his attention in Israel, called him to be the rector of Christ Church Jerusalem, then called him to lead the US ministry and draw others to experience the Holy Land.
 
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History in first person: Rev. Philip Bottomley

The first national director of CMJ USA tells how he came from England to lead the fledgling US branch and how he found himself with CMJ again after retirement
 
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Meet two Jewish Anglicans, ancestors in the faith

As we celebrate 40 years of CMJ USA, we’ve been looking back to those who plowed the ground before us in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today we offer brief profiles of two pioneering American Jewish believers in Jesus.
 
Rt. Rev. William Kenney

Church of England repents of antisemitism

As the heir of British catholic Christianity, the Anglican Church marks the 800th anniversary of the notorious Synod of Oxford with a strongly Hebraic service of repentance for historic antisemitism.
 
Pilgrim Fathers 2021 tour members

CMJ & The Pilgrim Fathers Tour

Join Chris and Jane Moxon of CMJ UK as they walk where some of the Puritan leaders ministered and they consider how the founders and early supporters of CMJ were influenced by the Puritan view of the Jewish people.
 
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The first coming of CMJ to America

CMJ USA, founded in 1982, is celebrating 40 years of ministry. However, we are not the first CMJ-related ministry in the United States. Here's the story of how the first American iteration of CMJ came in the late 19th century.
 
Ukraine on the Map

Praying for Ukraine: Messianic Jewish Spiritual Landscape

Ukraine has one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe and also has the largest Messianic synagogue congregation in the world.
 
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Jewish Christians in the Netherlands during the Holocaust

There was an active Jewish Christian community in Holland when the Nazis invaded. Some were pastors, nuns and monks, but the Nazis cared nothing about these distinctions. Their mission was to kill all Jews.
 
Joseph Samuel Frey

Joseph Frey in America

After founding CMJ in the UK in 1809, the Jewish believer in Jesus came to the US to start a similar work in 1820
 
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Celebrating 40 years of CMJ USA

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.
 
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.

The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible

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.
 
"You should not calculate times for him to come, or to look in the verses of Tanach to see when he should come. The sages say: The wisdom of those who calculate times is small... he will be greater and more honoured than all of the kings of Israel since the beginning of time as it is prophesied by all the prophets from Moses our teacher to Malachi."
(Maimonides on Messiah)