Perspective on the Past Offers Hope for the Future Perspective Is Something Acquired Over Time

THE Best of The Messianic Times Messianic Times Serving the International Messianic Jewish Community TRILOGY Vol. 27 Number 5 September/October 2017—Elul 5777-Tishri/Cheshvan 5778 messianictimes.com Canada/US $5 volume 2 Perspective on the Past Offers Hope for the Future Perspective is something acquired over time. As believers we are constantly examining history, taking stock of current situations and prayerfully setting direction for the future. This is true for movements as well. These days there is much discussion concerning the future of Messianic Judaism and the possibility of how things will look in another 25 years. More and more there are congre- and witness what He is doing today, so gations and ministries celebrating the that we may direct our steps toward faithful contributions of leaders now the fulﬁllment of His future plan. retired or those who have gone on to Looking back, one cannot help be with the Lord. Successors to familiar but note the growth in the number faces are now blessed with the opportunity of Messianic congregations that are to hold the banner high as the lore and sprinkled not only across the United legend of the early days of the Messi- States, but throughout Israel, Europe, anic movement are passed on—l’dor South and Central America as well as vador—from generation to generation. the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Shared remembrances shimmer as We are struck by the growing number they are retold with relish, like the of opportunities to pursue under-graduate, exodus of Passover or the challenges post-graduate and seminary programs faced by Yeshua’s disciples in the Book for Jewish and Gentle believers to acquire of Acts. Todays’ young believers learn the education essential to create worthy how the Lord worked in the lives of and informed leaders. many thousands of young Jews in the The ongoing explosion of anointed late ’60s and early ’70s; and how those Messianic music continues in each hippies and seekers went on to have ensuing generation—from the litur- families whose children have accepted gically attuned, to rock and hip-hop the baton and now lead congregations aﬁcionados, to breakout artists whose of their own. global beats and instrumentation The Messianic Times is blessed to bear an unmistakable Middle Eastern have recorded so much of the history thumb print. Inspired by the words of of this miraculous movement. Looking the Scriptures, there continues to be back over the milestones of these past an ever-evolving musical component decades offers a unique perspective as we to this movement, a tradition that

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THE BLACK SEA. Passing into the Twenty-three exhausted volunteers darkness of the Black Sea, on a four day from Africa, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, voyage toward the Israeli port of Haifa, New Zealand, Singapore, Germany, the passengers knew they could never Belarus, the Ukraine and the U.S. put in forget Odessa. Odessa—the run-down weeks of hard labor because of their love Ukrainian city where 75 per cent of the for the Jewish people. population live below poverty level; While standing on the lower deck where the average monthly allowance for of the ship Katrin Breit, 19, a volunteer seniors is about $30 U.S. Odessa, where from East Germany says, “I always loved food is ever scarce and oppression ever the Jewish people because I knew they present; Odessa, where the air is filled were God's chosen people. But now I with the stench of latent communism. even have a greater love for them because Does communism still exist in Odessa? I am here with them, helping them and Some say it never really left. being a part of Bible prophecy fulfilled.” Children, parents, grandparents and The Jews who were immigrating to friends were weeping, some wailing, as Israel had made their way from all over they bade final farewells to relatives and the Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and Ar- friends as the ship pulled from the dock. menia by train and car, and then were The tearful exodus betrayed unspoken picked up by Ebenezer volunteers. fears: Would they see their loved ones Ebenezer (Hebrew for “stone of ever again? Would the ones left behind help”) was established by Swiss-born Caption: Holocaust survivor Vladimir and his wife Dora on the Ebenezer ship bound for Israel. leave “The Land of the North” and make businessman Gustav Scheller at the Vladimir displays his concentration camp identification number tattoo. it to the promised homeland? Would the height of the 1991 Gulf War. Scheller says iron curtain and doors of the former Soviet God spoke to him during an intercessory Union re-close, once again locking in Jews? prayer conference in Jerusalem with these It took an entire day to load the 366 words, “Now is the time to start helping passengers and their belongings aboard My people return from the Land of the the 25-year-old vessel. North.” Weeks before, Ebenezer volunteers Scheller sponsored three Jewish who give a minimum three month com- Agency air flights from Budapest, mitment, were a cheerful and willing Hungary and Warsaw, Poland, flying 720 bunch as they traipsed up and down Russian Jews to Tel Aviv, in the summer apartment building stairs moving fur- of 1991. niture and belongings for the Jewish Then God began speaking to Scheller people who would board the ship. They about using a ship to transport them and packed the immigrants’ belongings in December 1991 and early 1992, the into crates and transported them to the Greek vessel, Mediterranean Sky, made Odessa harbor. three voyages from Odessa to Haifa, car- Everything they owned—beds, tables, rying 1,400 olim (new immigrants). pianos, household belongings, were In 1993, a Ukrainian ship, the Dimi- stowed below the ship or lugged up the try Shostakovitch, was chartered and still gangplank by Christian volunteers and continues these “Aliyah” voyages. Now it then taken to individual cabins either up was making its 59th trip. Ebenezer sails or down two and three flights of stairs. twelve times per year beginning in March Faye Wicks, a staff member of The when the waters are easy to travel and Messianic Times, came to Odessa to wit- ending with the cold of December. ness this modem-day exodus. The “prophetic voyages” are expensive Two young men brought her from costing $500 to transport each person. the airport to the Ebenezer Emergency This covers everything from moving Fund base. their belongings, accommodations and “That was an experience,” says Wicks. travel expenses. “I wasn’t prepared for the culture shock. I While the voyages are taking place, felt like I was in a time warp-somewhere other Ebenezer volunteers are telling around the year 1920. The airport was Jewish people throughout the Ukraine deserted, the runways were unkempt, and parts of the former Soviet Union to full of holes and bumps, and it seemed flee to their homeland. as though everyone was from the KGB.” One volunteer was surprised that Through the efforts of Ebenezer, many Ukrainian Jews don't want to leave. Wicks witnessed prophecy fulfilled. “I “The morning we left the base in was moved as I stood and watched six Odessa, we drove through the city and Christian men carrying a stretcher up the passed an Orthodox synagogue. I saw the gangplank and into the ship," says Wicks. men wearing their kippas standing in the “On the stretcher lay an elderly Jewish parking lot talking, and I couldn't under- lady—80 years old—whose leg had been stand why they would want to stay when broken for some time and had not reset. all these non-religious Jews were so desperate “The Bible tells us that they (the Gen- to leave this poverty stricken place for tiles) will carry them on their shoulders their homeland, Israel." bringing them back into The Land,” Wicks Although in the Promised Land, continues. “The woman was in a lot of many Israelis are frustrated with immi- pain and was crying as they set the stretch- gration policies. "They have brought with er on the floor. Some of the volunteers them the Russian mafia and prostitution, went over to her and prayed for her. She and some areas where the Russians live reported the next morning that she’d slept have turned into ghetto-like slums,” explains very peacefully and with no pain.” Galit, a woman from Tel Aviv. Landing at the port of Haifa, immigrants walk down the gangplank onto Israeli soil.

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An elderly woman is carried in her wheelchair onto a ship heading to Israel.

One Ukrainian Jew, Egor, who made aliyah, a year ago, returned to Odessa for his fiancé who was with him on Ebenezer's ship. He was upset that many of those on board in his estimation weren't really Jews. Of course the biggest question in Israel is “Who is a Jew?” Standing on the deck of the ship as it was passing Instanbul, Turkey, Egor said in broken English, "Probably one third are not really Jews. The Jewish Agency in the Ukraine is giving them visas if they have just one great grandpar- ent who was a Jew and that is illegal according to Israeli law. Then look, they married non-Jews and with all their children they have been allowed to make aliyah and bring these non-Jewish families to Israel where they will become citizens. To me, it's watering down the Jewish State and it’s not right.” Despite this underlying conflict, Ebenezer's representative in charge of the voyages believes that in 1998 there will be even more ships sailing to Israel. Vad- im, a 31-year-old Believer, says, “God will take more of these Jewish people out whether through Ebenezer or by other people using ships.” With anti-Semitism now sweeping the former Soviet Union, Ebenezer vol- Perspective on the Pastst unteers have gone into remote areas on “fishing expeditions.” Although they're not allowed to share the Gospel of Yeshua, they are able to tell Russian Jews OffersOffers HopeHope for the Futurere about the importance of making aliyah (returning to Israel) and its prophetic ContinuedContinued ffromrom theth front page fulfillment. “When we speak to Jewish people at synagogues and elsewhere, we start by telling them that we are volunteers from the Christian organization, Ebenezer, which helps Jewish people return to their home country, explains Shirley Lawrenson, a South African volunteer who has been on 13 voyages. They are very touched by us. I have seen many times tears in their eyes because they have never experienced so much love from a group of non-Jewish people who want to help them in. In the past they’ve only experienced persecution from non-Jews.” In addition, Lawrenson says, “It’s a thrill to be on the ship with all of these Jews, who are making aliyah, and especially seeing the ones that you ‘fished’ or helped move belongings from their apartments.” Wicks says a large number of Holocaust survivors were aboard, and during the four day journey they recalled some of their experiences. “They told us about the camps and about the way their people were tor- tured. They were treated like animals. These people saw terrible atrocities and they lived in fear of who would be next. They said they prayed to die,” recalls Wicks. However, many other passengers felt they were on the “Love Boat.” It was the first time they'd been on a Ukrainian cruise ship. To an American it was an old ship, but to these Ukrainians it was luxury at its finest. At night, Ebenezer volunteers would play Messianic and traditional Israeli began in the early days of Lamb and The Liberated Wailing Wall and continues strong, music leading the emigrants in Israeli dancing. through current artists like Hazakim and Miqedem. “It was exciting to watch as one by one they joined in the dancing and the The sound and style of the Messianic movement will certainly continue to evolve as rejoicing,” says Wicks, adding, “On the last night aboard the volunteers put on a we head into 5778, but the calling of God is the same today as it was in the first century: to farewell concert with special music, dancing and testimonies about the goodness reach out with the Good News of Messiah to the Jew first and also to the Gentile (Romans of the God of lsrael. The people were very moved and many of them, with tears in 1:16). As The Messianic Times will continue to grow and change as well, to reflect the their eyes, expressed they had never felt such love before.” individuals, congregations and ministries we serve, we are pleased to take a moment to Over the last six years 750,000 people from the former Soviet Union have reflect back on the historic events we have been blessed to report as we seek the will of God made aliyah according to Israel's ministry of immigration. MT for the exciting future that awaits us. MT

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4 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 HolyDays World’s Attention Turns to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount During High Holy Days by Dr. Randall Price he Jewish community and The fact of forgiveness, at Mount Sinai points to His Tworld's attention are on Jeru- according to Jewish tradition, promised return to Jerusalem salem's occupied Temple Mount was the change in color of to reveal Himself again at the during Tishri (the seventh a ribbon hanging from the end of days (Zechariah 8:3). month of the Jewish calendar) entrance hall of the Temple that The feast of Trumpets also and its two feasts of the annual had formerly been tied around points prophetically to the time High Holy Days or Yamin No- the neck of the goat designated of Daniel’s 70th week (Daniel ra’im (Days of Awe). for the sin offering. If God 9:27; 12:1) during which the On the third day of had accepted the sin offering, Jewish Remnant is prepared for the festival of Sukkot, the then the red ribbon would national repentance through the Temple Mount Faithful, under miraculously turn white. (After persecution of the Anti-Messiah at the leadership of Gershon Yeshua was resurrected, in the close of this period (Zechariah Salomon, will again attempt to approximately 30 CE, until the 12:1–9; Matthew 24:31). lay a cornerstone for the Third second temple was destroyed While no sacrifices can Temple. Their date follows in 70 CE, the red rib bon never currently be presented on the biblical occasion of King turned white again. the Temple Mount, Jewish David bringing the Ark of the However, the conclusion organizations such as Chai Covenant to Mount Moriah, an of this spiritual period of Ve’Kayam, the Temple Mount act which sanctified the site and preparation for national Faithful, and others during this prepared it for Solomon’s later repentance and spiritual season continually pressure building of the First Temple. cleansing comes only with the the Israeli government for An Orthodox Jewish man and his The group hopes, unlike final day of the seven day Feast permission to offer sacrifices children constructing their sukka previous years, that this year’s of Sukkot (“Tabernacles” or and to gain access to the Temple installation and dedication of “Booths”) also known as the Mount for worship. the 4.5 ton cornerstone will be Feast of lngathering (Exodus And today, on Yom Kippur, Among the subjects discussed There are also numerous successfully completed on the 23:15–16). Jews still fast as in Temple was “The coming war in the other scenarios that include: Temple Mount. To understand times, incorporate the High Middle East and why it will take a Egypt’s escalation of military the timing for this event, we Priest's sacrificial service into miracle to save Israel.” armaments; the discovery of need to review the high profile the synagogue ritual, and sing His concerns arise from more and more tunnels in the of the Temple Mount in the …the Lord miraculously at the conclusion of the service: current events including Sinai for smuggling weapons period of the High Holy Days. Lashanah haba’ah birushalayim the Palestinian Authority's into Palestinian controlled On the first day of Tishri known preserves Israel in an (next year in Jerusalem.) threat to declare war if their areas in Israel; the PLO’s as the Feast of Trumpets, which end-time war. Prophetically, Yom Kippur looks demands for the eastern part announcement to declare a opens the festival season and forward to the great day of of the City of Jerusalem are Palestinian state on May 5, begins the civil new year (Rosh Israel’s national redemption and not met. Sadaam Hussein 1999; Syria’s continuing its Ha Shanah), the sounding of For this celebration all Jewish spiritual cleansing which follows has defied all United Nations preparation for war. the shofar (ram’s horn) signals men were required in ancient her repentance at Messiah’s inspectors and is preparing to This brings us back to the beginning of a solemn times to go to the Temple coming to the Mount of test American resolve in the the cornerstone of the Temple occasion of national repentance where 70 sacrifices were offered Olives (Zechariah 12:10–13: 1; Gulf in the wake of President Mount Faithful. In previous and spiritual return to the Lord. in atonement for the sins of Matthew 24:30; Romans 11:27). Clinton’s political and legal years the group’s attempts This was symbolized by the the nations that had come Finally, today’s celebration problems. In addition, the to set the stone set off Arab shofar which also functioned to from the sons of Noah. The of Sukkot reﬂects on God’s nuclear race is on again, this riots, a gunfight on the Temple assemble the Israelite troops for final day of this feast, known provision of refuge in the time in the Middle East, after Mount, and was the cause of battle. Its rousing sound issued as Hoshana Rabbah, is taken wilderness, His promise of Pakistan and lran became the Sadaam Hussein’s launching a call for spiritual preparation. from liturgical passages recited rescue at the end of the “time of first Muslim nations to test scud missiles against Israel. In Temple times the required throughout the feast beginning Jacob’s troubles" (Jeremiah 30:7), nuclear devices. Moreover, With so many volatile factors blowing of the shofar (Leviticus with the Hebrew imperative and restoration in the future news of failing health of combined, and Sadaam Hussein 23:24) was performed by a hosa’na’ (save now). On this kingdom of Messiah. At this time PLO leader Yasser Arafat, waiting for the opportunity to priest from the southwestern day during Temple times Israel's return to blessing will King Hussein of Jordan and strike again, joined this time by corner of the retaining wall willow branches were beaten include the spiritual instruction Syrian President Hafez Assad new Arab allies as well as the surrounding the Temple. The against the pavement next to and blessing of the nations, presents prospects for any Palestinians, who knows what people then offered a burnt the Great Altar to symbolize who will join with them in the one of these leaders dying and reaction may result? offering at the Temple in token the casting away of the nation's ongoing celebration of Sukkot serious upheavals taking place These are all issues for those of their spiritual preparation. sins. On this day, too, water (Zechariah 14:16–19). It is also in the political structure of concerned with Israel to pray Immediately following the was drawn from the Pool of signiﬁcant that the Scripture Israel’s closest neighbors. about this season. MT Feast of Trumpets on the 10th Siloam in a ceremony known as portion from the Prophets that day of Tishri is the holiest day Simhat Bet Hassoevah (water- is read in the synagogue on the in the Jewish calendar, Yom drawing festival) and poured Shabbat during Sukkot comes Kippur (Day of Atonement). on the corner of the Altar as a from Ezekiel chapter 38. This This is the day on which Israel libation offering. Its purpose familiar passage deals with the historically made atonement was in connection with prayers future battle of Gog and Magog for their national sin. In ancient for the annual rains, but in which the Lord miraculously times both the act and fact of also had symbolic messianic preserves Israel in a bloody end- forgiveness were dependent connections. time war. upon a series of sacrifices in the Although the Temple This year, as Israel’s feasts Temple that were performed doesn’t exist today, it continues commemorate its future by the High Priest on behalf of to overshadow aspects of each concern with the nations, the the people. The climax of the commemorative feast. rest of the world is concerning act of atonement was when the On each day of Elul (the themselves with Israel’s future. High Priest entered the Holy month pre ceding Tishri), as at For example, scarcely a week of Holies (the innermost and Rosh Ha Shanah, the shofar is after the Jewish people had taken most sacred chamber within sounded at the Western Wall of down their sukkot (booths), the Temple) with a sin offering, the Temple Mount. At a time Joseph de Courcy, editor of People gather for prayer at the sprinkling its blood on the of national preparation for the United Kingdom’s famed Western Wall, the holy site in mercy seat of the Ark of the repentance, the reminder that Intelligence Digest convened a the shadow of the Temple Mount. Covenant. God once revealed Himself conference in Washington D.C.

September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 5 Remembering

There’s No Me Without You by Corry Bell veryone wants to be remem- against small amplitude ray and However, the transition from Ebered for something unique or other noise events.” denominational Christianity to important; to leave this world with Despite his Christian Messianic Judaism was not an an unmistakeable mark that we upbringing, life in the fast lane easy one. Some of their friends were here, and made a difference. of Hollywood was not spiritually were concerned they were Glen Campbell simply would like edifying for this country boy, and actually participating in a cult, or to be remembered as a man who Glen often became uncentered. that they were returning to some was honest, devoted to his family, Drugs and alcohol played a major kind of slavery “under the Law.” made good music, and loved God. role in three failed marriages But the Campbells persevered, A pseudo-biographical account before he finally settled down with holding weekly chavurah telling his story, his desires, Radio City Music Hall dancer, meetings and Torah studies in failures and victories, Glen’s latest Kim Woollen. When a friend of their home. Kim, especially, has CD opens that window of hers who was dating Glen’s banjo struggled with some of the biases introspection into the life of an player planned to go to a James against Gentile believers within entertainment legend in his final Taylor concert, Kim exclaimed, “I the Messianic community, and years of service to his faithful love James Taylor! Set me up with has made it a priority to learn as audience. The songs are intimate, someone in the band and take me much about Torah, sometimes forthright and tender, revealing with you.” She had no idea her blind living a more observant lifestyle the heart of an admittedly date would be Glen Campbell. She than most Jewish people—by imperfect man. found him kind, warm and honest, keeping kosher, attending services, Born in 1936, a poor though his drinking problem participating in the holidays, sharecropper’s son from Pike was apparent, even as he recited a and celebrating Shabbat. Kim County, Arkansas, seventh son blessing over dinner. and Glen often participate in of 12 children, Glen knew at They were married in beit midrash classes in order to a very early age he was not to 1981, and had two sons, Cal and learn Messianic halachah and follow his father’s footsteps. He Shannon, and one daughter, understand the Torah from a believes every life is a miracle, Ashley, who now tour with Kim believer’s standpoint. Kim took especially his own, as he recalls and their father on this final what she learned and volunteered the little-known story of his journey since the release of his as a teacher of Shabbat school near drowning at age 2. He says latest CD and his recent diagnosis at Beth Emunah. She also used that God spared him, and felt he of Alzheimer’s. With the rough her interior decorating skills to was always meant for something and tumble years behind them, help with the remodeling of the other than sharecropping; a more and the kids playing on tour with synagogue a few years ago. musical vocation than steering a their dad, the family is closer The strength they glean plow or planting seeds. than ever. Alcohol and drugs from their faith comes across He received his first guitar are demons of the past, now beautifully in Glen’s final at age four and his Uncle Boo replaced with rounds of golf and repertoire, brilliantly produced taught him how to play. “They telling jokes (the ones he can still by Julian Raymond, Vice didn’t allow instruments in the recollect). The Campbell home President of A&R Records Church of Christ back home,” is a place of refuge for friends, and staff producer at Warner Glen shares, “but the Baptist family, celebrations and get- Brothers Records. Songs like church down the road did, so togethers. But what about this “A Better Place” and “Strong,” I would go over there and play. diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, a disease reveal Glen’s admissions of The Baptist church didn’t let ‘em so debilitating, eventually robbing need and his deepest fears, as he dance, but the Church of Christ a person of their memories, their faces the unknown future of his did, and I always thought the two cognitive reasoning, and, to a diagnosis. Lyrics from “A Better of them should get together.” great degree, their personality? Place” declare, Some days I’m so At age 16, he left Arkansas How can Glen continue to travel confused, Lord. My past gets in for Albuquerque to try a serious the world with such a fog over his my way. I need the ones I love, hand at his new-found craft. mind? Lord, more and more each day. When asked about leaving Glen and his wife have Kim recalls that Raymond school at such a young age, he always had a strong faith in God, kept a journal during his time playfully explains that he simply even more so since discovering working with Glen on their “quituated” from high school. Messianic Judaism. Although first project together, Meet His love of music eventually Kim was raised in the Methodist Glen Campbell (re-released lead him further west, where his Presbyterian church, her divorced in February 2012). Raymond dreams could be realized. father remarried a Jewish woman referred to his notes when With $300 in his pocket who brought the richness of writing five pieces on the and a lot of hope, he moved to Hebraic traditions into the family. second CD, entitled Ghost on the Los Angeles, where he became a Kim immediately fell in love with Canvas, which express intimate member of the Wrecking Crew, a all of it. Today, the Campbells and poignant lyrics of Glen’s group of talented studio musicians consider themselves a part of the thoughts and experiences over working on classics, such as “You’ve Messianic Jewish community, the last several years. His subtle Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” “Strangers having begun their foundation nuances, declarations, likes and Top row, left: Glen as a teenateenager,geerr, In The Night,” and “Viva Las Vegas.” at Beth Simchat in Phoenix, dislikes were all recorded by sitting on his car in NNewew MexicoMexxiccoo He mastered anything with strings: Arizona, and now calling Beth Raymond in the journal, with guitars, banjo, and bass. He even Emunah Messianic Synagogue the hope of using that material Top row, right: Glen surroundedurrounded learned the bagpipes, garnering an in Agoura Hills, California, their to capture the essence of Glen by wife Kim and theirr ffamilyamily amazing reputation in a tough town home congregation. through this final collection in Middle row left: Glen with TThehhe where musicians were a dime a The Hebrew Scriptures a career that spans five decades, Wranglers dozen. Glen stood out as one of the have became more relevant, and, recently recognized with a best, and his solo work was dubbed as Gentile believers in Yeshua, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Middle row right: Glen’sn’s banbandd “Campbelling” for its amazing more a part of their daily lives; Award. Raymond co-wrote a Bottom row inset: Glenen disdisplaysplays uniqueness and quality. In the a continuous flow into the New song on the CD called “There’s his gold records modern world of physics, the word Covenant—a collection of books No Me Without You,” based campbelling is used in reference to that speaks to their own personal upon a statement that Glen made Bottom row right: Instanttant PeoplePeooplee “the large amplitude fluctuations story of triumph and loss, to Raymond, as Glen pointed to (l to r) Shannon Webbb CCampbell,ampbelll, from neutron fission events in faith and despair, courage and his wife, Kim, and said, “There’s Ashley Campbell, Ry Jarred, the detectors to discriminate weakness, sin and forgiveness. no me without her.” MT Siggy Sjursen, Caledoniaonia CaCampbellmpbbeell

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SSeptember/Octobereptember/October 2017 The Messianic Times 7 MessianicMovement will of the townspeople they encountered. Yeshua Even today, hospitality to this extent exists in most prohibits them from taking their own possessions, Israeli communities. It is not uncommon for families to and teaches that the blessing and peace of God will invite travelers, students, or Israeli soldiers to their tables. rest upon those who extend consideration to His This includes overnight accommodations for those who The Red Cord servants (Luke 10:4-6). Rather than seeking more otherwise would have to drive on Shabbat. Many religious prestigious or luxurious accommodations, they are organizations sponsor guest housing, run hostels, and offer to accept the provisions they receive (10:7). He trusts meals for the needy. of Redemption the community to treat strangers properly, just as he Is it simply tradition passed through the generations, expects His followers to be dependent upon their or an outward obedience to the Law that accounts for this by Miryam Howard-Meier hosts. Their willingness to stay with people who are hospitality that still permeates Jewish life—or is it something not yet believers opens a door for blessings. more? In 2000, geneticists discovered DNA testing contains This ancient civilization speaks powerfully instructions linking individuals to their ancestry. In his book, regarding the friendly manner in which a visitor was DNA & Tradition, author Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman makes You are not to oppress a foreigner, for you know to be received; not every desert traveler was innocent, a powerful conclusion. “Based on genetic findings, actual how a foreigner feels, since you were foreigners and not everyone possessed a benevolent heart. Thieves present-day descendants of Abraham may be recognizable in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9). lurked behind almost every sand dune, attempting to through their Y-Chromosome markers. However, the Bible apprehend the weary camel rider. Consequently, to the makes it clear that the inheritance of Abraham is more If a foreigner stays with you in your land, do benefit of both parties, it was wise to acquaint themselves than just biological; it has a spiritual component, as well. not do him wrong. Rather, treat the foreigner with one another for their own protection. This might Collectively, it is the driving force of history.” staying with you like the native born among you— be hard to imagine in today’s self-reliant society, where Researchers have labeled the term “genetic memory” you are to love him as yourself. (Leviticus 19:33). we are inundated with numerous roadside services: gas as something within DNA that mysteriously causes an stations, mini-marts and motels too great to number. A individual to be attracted to particular objects. Jewish s the sky begins to darken on Friday nights, Jewish quick three-digit phone call dispatches protection instantly. people, who have been genealogically sequestered due to Apeople throughout the world look forward to sharing The Auto Club will change a tire, or tow us to the nearest adoption or hidden family identity, often experience an Shabbat dinner, and engaging in lively conversation with mechanic. But the Biblical traveler depended on kindness inexplicable connection to anything Hebraic, such as a their families and friends. for survival—even his very life. song, piece of art, or historical event. Though it sounds like Jewish sages describe the word “hospitality” as a form Once invited into the tent of the Hebrew tribe, the science fiction, DNA blood tests can now provide biological of worship. As far back as Abraham’s day, when the three safety of a sojourner was assured, due to the protection in evidence for this phenomenon! travelers were given food and shelter (Genesis 18), we clearly keeping with the Biblical standard of the day. The foreigner It boggles the mind that powerful genetic memory see the act of welcoming the stranger, or hachnasat orchim. was invited to participate in family activities, and he could exists within the Jewish DNA markers. Could this be why This type of graciousness is a major component of gemilut even take part in the Passover, if he submitted to Torah so many of God’s people have such a fervent desire to serve chasadim (acts of loving kindness), and is considered a observance. Sojourners in need received a share of the others? Could this explain why Israel has such a reverence sacred obligation. tithes distributed among the poor, and “one law and one for life, and why Jewish mothers insist on feeding all who The Mishnah supports this. “Let your house be opened statute” was applied equally to the native and to the stranger may happen to stroll by their kitchens? wide and let the poor be members of your household” (Exodus 12:49). A Torah scholar and business owner in the Old City (Pirkei Avot 1:5). The host, upon seeing a wanderer approaching in the of Jerusalem, Moshe Kempenski refers to Deuteronomy Rabbi Huna was a Talmudist and kohen (priest), who desert, would go out to meet him, asking no questions as 29:14-25, as an example of generational connection. But I lived in Babylonia during the Seleucidan era, and was to his name or condition, until his immediate needs had am not making this covenant and this oath only with you. known for great wisdom and piety. Whenever he had a been satisfied. After entering the tent, he was given water Rather, I am making it both with him who is standing here meal, he would open his door and proclaim, “Let whoever to wash his feet, and a meal was put before him. Crossing with us today before Adonai our God and also with him who is in need come and eat” (Ta’anit 20b-21a). the entryway represented the “threshold covenant,” which is not here with us today. The Scriptures are replete with examples of hospitality. was established in Egypt between the Hebrews and the It is no coincidence that Israel is one of the most Laban offered lodging to the servants of Abraham as they Almighty on the event of Passover (Exodus 12:13). welcoming countries, accommodating 3.45 million tourists traveled in search of a suitable wife for Isaac (Genesis 24). Meanwhile, the traveler’s animals would be watered in 2010 alone. It is also an act of compassion that Israeli Jethro rebuked his daughters because they did not invite and fed. It was customary for the host to take personal emergency teams are routinely “first responders,” bringing Moses, a stranger to Midian, into their home (Exodus 2:20). responsibility for any injury that might befall his visitor. aid to global disaster victims. The prostitute Rahab was spared when the city of Jericho Before departure, another meal was served, at which time Yet, in this cold and hostile world, may Jewish people fell, because she willingly hid Joshua’s spies on her roof, the parties had the option of entering into a friendship everywhere come to know an even deeper, more ingrained ensuring them an escape plan, while lying to their pursuers. covenant. The host would then accompany the stranger a reason for both hachnasat orchim and gemilut chasadim. It Due to this valiant act of courage, the spies told Rahab to good distance, showing that he wished the stay wouldn’t comes through the redemptive blood of Messiah Yeshua—a hang a red cord from her window, so she and her family have to end so soon. At this point, the guest blessed the host thread running through history that never wears out or could be identified and rescued when the army of Joshua before taking final leave, asking him whether he stood in breaks. It fulfills the words found in the book of Matthew, returned (Joshua 1:15-21, 6:22). need of anything, as an act of gratitude. If the guest wished chapter 25, where He refers to feeding, visiting, and clothing The book of Luke shows Yeshua preparing His to remain in the clan or in the locality, he was permitted to the poor. Inasmuch as you have you done it unto the least of disciples for ministry. They were to depend on the good select a dwelling place. these my brethren, you have done it unto Me. MT

The prostitute Rahab was spared when the city of Jericho fell, because she willingly hid Joshua’s spies on her roof, ensuring them an escape plan, while lying to their pursuers. Due to this valiant act of courage, the spies told Rahab to hang a red cord from her window, so she and her family could be identiﬁed and rescued when the army of Joshua returned.

Left: Sojourners in the desert

8 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 MessianicHistory Rabbis Who Knew Yeshua By Deborah Galiley But whatever was to my proﬁt I now consider loss for the sake of Messiah. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Messiah Yeshua my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. Philippians 3:7–8 he above scripture was penned by many members of his congregation lost lips, his doubts about Ta rabbi who became a follower of businesses through boycotts, but they the Talmud and his Messiah Yeshua. He understood more stayed by their rabbi. growing excitement over than most that the price paid didn’t In a letter to his son, a doctor, Rabbi messianic prophecies begin to compare to the reward gained. Lichtenstein wrote “From every line in were enough to cause Often, when Jewish people accept the New Testament, from every word, massive problems for Yeshua as their Savior, they get all sorts the Jewish spirit streamed forth light, himself within the Jewish of accusations hurled at them: life, power, endurance, faith, hope, love, community. By 1892, You were tricked! charity, limitless and indestructible faith he left for New York. It You were offered money! in God.” wasn’t long before he You want to be like the Goyim Across the Atlantic Ocean, in Dayton stumbled across Hebrew (Gentiles)! Ohio, Max Wertheimer found Yeshua as Christians, and obtained You didn’t know enough about Judaism, his Messiah. He led an enviable life as a New Testament. or you never would have done this! rabbi of a large, thriving congregation, After an intense You’re pathetic and needy, and this with a spacious, comfortable home, period of internal made you feel better! servants, two beautiful children, and an struggle, Rabbi Cohn Sometimes, the offending convert is adoring wife. In 1895, after ten years as received peace from God marched off to the local rabbi, who will a rabbi, he took part in meetings where that Yeshua is really the “talk sense” to him/her, and bring him/ various denominational pastors gave Jewish Messiah. Through her back into the fold. But what happens addresses on their religion. Standing up, many trials and testings, Isaac Lichtenstein when the new Believer is the rabbi? he proudly told them why he, a Reform he dedicated his life to What happens then? Jew, would not believe in their Christ. telling his fellow Jews Back in the 19th century and into the In the audience sat a devout Christian that their Messiah had 20th century, well before the internet woman who prayed that God would indeed come! “I’m halfway around the globe and show him his need for the Savior he The twentieth century can communicate with you for free rejected. brought forth Rabbi instantaneously” era, several rabbis In just a short time, Rabbi Daniel Zion. Chief Rabbi came to faith in Yeshua. As we examine Wertheimer’s life radically changed. of Bulgaria, Rabbi Daniel some of these fascinating stories, you His wife suddenly took sick and died, became a Believer in the can decide if the above-mentioned leaving him bereft. All his plans and 1930s after experiencing accusations are accurate or not. dreams were shattered, and he found a miraculous vision of Isaac Lichtenstein became a rabbi in that he had no hope. After getting no Yeshua. In an attempt northern Hungary in 1850, at barely 20 answers from Judaism, he picked up a to discern the meaning years of age. After 40 years spent leading New Testament and compared it with of the vision, he sought congregations, an anti-Semitic crisis in the Hebrew Scriptures. When the rabbi out the patriarchate of the his district prompted him to read the read Isaiah 53, he started down a path Green Orthodox Church New Testament. In the midst of the which led him to the unquestionable in Soﬁa, and befriended ensuing chaos, rational and loving voices conclusion that Jesus was indeed the the Archimandrite Stephen. of real Christians broke through the Jewish Messiah! On March 30, 1904, he The two became close anti-Jewish vituperation. This stunned publicly confessed his belief in Yeshua, friends. and perplexed him, and he decided that and went on to pastor several churches. Rabbi Daniel gathered he must see for himself who this Jesus He found hope and life eternal. He about himself a small, really is. himself said, “There is but one source select group of Jewish Amazingly, Rabbi Lichtenstein found of eternal life: that is God’s Son. What people with whom a German Bible in a corner of his room, a great and glorious message we, His he studied the New thrown there in a fit of rage by himself redeemed ones, are commissioned to Testament on Saturday nearly thirty years before when a Jewish deliver today.” afternoons. His faith teacher had attempted to casually show Possibly the most well-known rabbi in Yeshua was a well- Leopold Cohn it to him. Now he voraciously consumed who accepted Yeshua is the Hungarian known secret in the it, the words bringing greatness, power Leopold Cohn, founder of American Jewish community of Bulgaria. He The Bulgarian Jews, however, continued and glory. Board of Missions to the Jews (Chosen never officially joined “Christianity,” and to honor him as their rabbi. He died in For a few years, he kept his convictions People Ministries). While still in always led a Torah observant lifestyle. 1979 at the age of 96, receiving a funeral to himself, but after a while they burst Hungary, Rabbi Cohn developed a The Nazis occupied Bulgaria in with full military and state honors. forth from him during sermons. One deep longing to see the coming of the March, 1941. By 1943, the Bulgarian What more can be said? Space does Shabbat, he openly proclaimed his faith, Messiah. Pouring over the Talmud, he government succumbed to pressure to not permit the stories of rabbis who and soon published three publications concluded that it was inadequate to the send its Jews to concentration camps came to faith: Philipp Philips, Rudolf which caused a sensation in Hungary task and so began to study the biblical outside the country. Because of his Hermann Gurland, Asher Levy, Rabbi and Europe. Brought before the prophets, despite the age-old warning relationship with Stephen, Rabbi Daniel Berg, Charles Freshman, Chil Slostowski, assembled rabbinate in Budapest, he was from the Rabbis that, “Cursed are the was able to successfully petition the king George Benedict, Rabbi Jacobs, Ephraim greeted with the cry, “Retract! Retract!” bones of him who calculates the time and thus saved the lives of the Bulgarian Ben Joseph Eliakim, Dr. T. Tirschtiegel, “Gentlemen,” said the Rabbi, “I shall of the end.” However, his longing was Jews, preventing their deportation to Henry Bregman, Sam Stern, Joseph most willingly retract if you convince greater than his fear, and so he opened the death camps. He was publicly beaten Rabinowitz, Hermann Warszawiak, me I am wrong.” the Book of Daniel. and persecuted by the Nazis, becoming Israel Zoller. MT They never did. Rabbi Lichtenstein Rabbi Cohn saw that the coming of the scapegoat for the entire Jewish continued to follow his Messiah until the Messiah should have occurred 400 years community. His only reaction was to day of his death, twenty years later. He after Daniel received the prophecy of call upon God. Sources: Good News, Special Rabbis’ Edition, Ed. Rev. Sean O’Sullivan, Johannesburg, South suffered intense persecution from fellow the seventy weeks. Soon Rabbi Cohn After the War, in 1949, Rabbi Africa; Petah Tikvah, Vol. 18, No. 4, Ed. Richard Jews, but he loved them and refused to go questioned the reliability of the Talmud, Daniel immigrated with most of the Chaimberlin, Rochester, NY; Raisins and Almonds, into the gentile church, despite tempting as it so differed in vital matters from Bulgarian Jewish community to Israel. Edited by Henry and Marie Einspruch, 3rd Edition, offers. Due to Hungarian religious laws, the actual Scriptures. Though he had In 1954, the Rabbinical Court of Israel The Lewis and Harriet Lederer Foundation, Baltimore, MD, 1967; When Jews Face Christ, only his own congregation could fire not yet read the New Testament, nor stripped him of his rabbinical title after Edited by Henry Einspruch, American Board of him and they chose not to. As a result, was the name “Jesus” yet upon his discovering that he believed in Yeshua. Missions to the Jews, Brooklyn, NY, 1932, 1939.

September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 9 ProfilesinFaith

The Deﬁning Moment by Megan Hoyt However they came to realize their destiny, these leaders have one thing in common—they each answered the call with a resounding “yes.”

of Missions to the Jews (later Chosen People Ministries), Sam was part of the Jews for Jesus musical group, The Liberated Wailing Wall. He and his wife, Miriam, performed on street corners in Sausalito, California, hoping to share their faith in Yeshua. They put on concerts, held meetings, doing whatever they could do to reach out. The group was performing at Key ’73 Jeff Adler Jack Zimmerman Hyland Slobodkin in Texas. It was Sam’s turn to share, and as he was speaking, a young girl received or some, it was a sobering realization, a what he needed to do. He telephoned his wife and said, “God spoke the Lord. Only later did he discover that Fconclusion reached after much prayer and to me very clearly today and said that I need to be a Messianic rabbi.” this young girl’s father was on the board with an enormous amount of soul-searching. For At first, he wasn’t sure how his wife took the news. It sounded for a of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran others, it was a divine epiphany, when God spoke moment as if she had dropped the phone. Then she spoke. “You’re Church, and they were, at that precise to the heart. Then there are those who experienced not going to believe this, but God revealed the same thing to me just moment, taking a vote on whether or an unimaginable chain of events leading them a few minutes ago.” not to continue their outreach to the directly to a moment of truth from which there Three years later, Jack was leading Beth Simchat, a Messianic Jewish people! His was the deciding is no turning back. It’s that special point in time congregation in Arizona. There was an added blessing to answering vote. Today, Sam leads Hope of Israel, when someone first recognizes a call to ministry. the call. Although the Zimmermans loved Pennsylvania, the climate a Messianic congregation Charlotte, While it is always a joy to discover the many was not good for Sandy’s health. “We thought the reason we were North Carolina. different ways people have come to faith in Yeshua, moving to Arizona was for my wife, but God was using that situation finding out how the Lord whispers to those He as a catalyst so that we could begin the ministry.” Lawrence Hirsch became a believer in has chosen requires a bit more digging. There the Messiah after moving to Australia are about as many stories out there as there are Hylan Slobodkin was surprised when Mark Buckley, Senior Pastor from Cape Town, South Africa. Little Messianic rabbis, and thankfully, that number is of the church he was attending, invited him to a leadership meeting. did he know that back home, his large, and growing. However they came to realize “I said to Mark, ‘Are you sure I’m supposed to be going to this girlfriend Louise had also come to faith their destiny, the following leaders have one thing meeting?’ He replied, ‘Yes. People are beginning to look to you as a on the same night. Married one year in common—they each answered the call with a leader.’” Two years later, in 1980, Hylan was ordained as a pastor and later, they both recognized the unique resounding “yes.” began working full-time in the church. way the Almighty had called them But it wasn’t until 1984 that God called him to be a shepherd. each to Himself, and wondered what it Jeff Adler came from a family of five generations “I was reading Isaiah 40. When I got to verse 11, I stopped. Like a might mean for their future. Then one of Messianic Jews. In fact, when his sister-in- shepherd He will tend His flock, in His arm He will gather the lambs, day, Lawrence recollects, “I was casually law researched their family tree, she discovered and carry them in His bosom. He will gently lead the nursing ewes. reading the Bible when God’s Word on their father’s side a long line of rabbis and I was overcome with emotion. I thought I had been a shepherd, but really jumped out at me. I felt Him cantors leading all the way back to Russia. Still, four years later, God was confirming it by His Word. This became clearly calling me to a life of ministry Jeff hesitated. “I wanted to be a baseball player my life verse.” Hylan has been in full-time ministry ever since, among Jewish people.” or maybe do something in politics,” he says. “I and became the Senior Messianic rabbi of Beit Tikvah Messianic He was humbled that God had chosen even applied to law school my senior year of Congregation in Washington in 1996. him. But despite the overwhelming sense college.” But something about going into law of inadequacy he felt initially, Lawrence didn’t feel right to him. He was beginning to Upon coming to faith in Yeshua in 1972, Sam Nadler soon found soon found himself at the helm of sense that God had another plan for his life. himself completely hemmed in. He was facing two choices—to live Celebrate Messiah, in partnership with One night, a verse of Scripture began whirling on a ranch in Oregon, or go to Bible college. The ranch was a Chosen People Global Ministries. He is around in Jeff’s head. It was from Isaiah 6, where decompression zone for ex-hippies. To Sam, it sounded like a slice also the representative for the Lausanne the Lord dramatically reveals Himself to Isaiah. of heaven. However, the night before he was to leave, a terrible Consultation on Jewish Evangelism Jeff explains, “Isaiah experiences the glory of the thunderstorm broke out. The entire area was flooded. Roads were for Australia and New Zealand, and Lord, and God basically cleans him up, and says, closed, rendering him unable to travel. Sam took this as a sign he the President of the Messianic Jewish ‘Whom shall I send?’” That night, he felt the Lord was supposed to attend Bible college. It was there he developed a Alliance of Australia. was saying “When confronted with My glory, even passion for the Scriptures—and discovered his true calling. “I am constantly amazed how God Isaiah had to give Me his life. I didn’t create you Although he knew God had tried to speak to him through the takes our simple obedience and uses it to be President of the United States, or to have the storm, Sam was still not convinced he was supposed to enter full- to touch the lives of so many others. It is perfect family in a house with a white picket fence. time ministry. Serving part-time on the staff of the American Board definitely His grace in action.” MT I created you for Me.” From that night on, Jeff felt a strong desire to teach the Bible. So instead of law school, he went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has now been in full time ministry as a Messianic rabbi for over 30 years, and currently leads Sha’arey Yeshua in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Jack Zimmerman had no idea what massive changes the new millennium would bring. Working as assistant producer for a television show in New York from the mid to late 1990s, Jack had little time to think at all, much less ponder his calling. But once a week, he made the drive back to Pennsylvania, where his wife Sandy and their children lived. “It was such a long commute! I could only do it once a week!” he recalls. One day, after spending time in prayer, Jack Sam Nadler Louise and Lawrence Hirsch heard the still, small voice of the Lord, and he knew

10 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 ProfilesinFaith Not Unto Them Only A True Account By Mottel Baleston

old and frail, too old to work as far as Mottels was from Kommenetz-Podoltz, my 10 year-old mind could reason. As a town in the Ukraine just 20 miles I watched him mix the ingredients, I from my grandmothers’ Jewish village noticed the number on his arm. When of Felshtin. we left, I asked my father, “Why is he still If my grandmother had not left working when he is so old? He paused in 1908, I would have been one of the and swallowed. “If he wasn’t given that Mottels on the list, murdered only job, he would have nothing to eat.” because I am from the race that God Pause. “Mottel, you can never allow a established to bring the world the Holy Holocaust survivor to go hungry.” My Scriptures and the Messiah, Yeshua, father was shaking. Jesus of Nazareth. In a sick irony, the Fast-forward forty years. Our local people committing the murders would community in New Jersey was observing typically be in church on Sunday, Yom Ha Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance singing hymns about a Jesus they knew Day. The Jewish War Veterans had almost nothing about. On Monday, they arranged a public reading of names to would resume the savage murder of remember those who had been murdered Jesus’ own Jewish people. I would have during the Shoah. Everyone was invited been killed regardless of the fact that I to come to the town park and take part believe in Jesus, as history records that a in the reading of the names. In our quarter million of the Jews who died in community I serve as Associate Messianic the Shoah were believers in the Messiah. Rabbi of Beth Messiah Congregation. The Passover Haggadah states: I used to be a youth group leader, and one “In every generation each individual of the parents suggested that I go to the is bound to consider himself as if he ceremony and volunteer our teenagers to personally had gone forth out of Egypt.” take part in the reading. My ancestors were enslaved in Egypt and “Great idea” wasn’t exactly the first we survived. My family was deported to thought that came to my mind. the death camps and we survived. I wasn’t eager to subject myself and As we say in Hebrew, our Jewish our kids to the looks of disapproval people are “Am Echad,” One People. from the mainstream Jewish community. Those of us who love our Jewish Many of them consider Messianic Jews to heritage and our Jewish Messiah are he first week of September 1959 their usual smocks with short sleeves. I be misguided traitors, while we are proud unwilling to give up either one. We may Tbrought excitement to a five year-old thought to myself, “Why can’t they wear to be Jews, appreciative of our heritage, be misunderstood by the larger Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn. For several long sleeves so no one sees the numbers and very grateful that the eternal God of community, yet still we raise our voice weeks it had been the topic of discussion tattooed on their arms?” Israel has sent Messiah Yeshua (Jesus)— to remember the six million: in my family: I was starting school. This is what I asked my father the just as the Jewish prophets foretold. The location could not have been last time we had been to Isaac’s. He But I knew it was the right thing to May the great Name of God be exalted better. Public School 272 was on the block explained that Isaac was born in Poland do, so we announced the event. I was and sanctified, throughout the world, with a row of stores and a supermarket, and had been in a concentration camp delighted when eight of our Messianic which He has created according to His in a self-contained neighborhood about during “The War,” along with other Jews Jewish teens showed up at the park will. May His Kingship be established in 90% Jewish at that time. Isaac’s Barber of his village. He was forced to work all entrance. Together we walked toward the your lifetime and in your days, and in the Shop would be a required stop before my day, breaking rocks and building roads. bandshell. I had expected a few dozen lifetime of the entire household of Israel, first day of Kindergarten. I was already My father explained it in terms I could to be present, but there were only three swiftly and in the near future; and say, familiar with the place, where everybody understand. “He only got one piece of participants; the officers of the Jewish Amen. MT smiled when I came in with my father. bread and one bowl of soup each day. War veterans, who were taking turns Isaac and his brother Yankel were both The Nazis took away his name and gave reading the names of the Shoah victims, barbers. A group of elderly men seemed him a number instead, but don’t ask him plus another two or three watching the to be permanent fixtures in the place, about it. We don’t talk about the war.” proceedings. even though I never saw them getting Case closed. We joined them and they appeared a haircut. They would speak to my The next few years I noticed many delighted that one of the local synagogues Father in accented English and Yiddish, other adults in my neighborhood had had brought their youth group. They using the same mix on me, just like my numbers tattooed on their arms. There asked the name of our congregation, and grandparents did. Then they’d stop me was the couple that ran the laundry. I responded cautiously, “Beth Messiah, and ask, “Farshtayst?” “Yes, I understand,” They had accents just like Isaac, and they the Messianic Jewish congregation.” The I’d reply, even when I really only got half both had numbers on their arms. When response was, “Oh. Hmmm. Yes, we’ve of what they said. I went across the street to buy parts for heard of you. Well, okay, you can read “Nu, (so) Sammy, your boy starts my crystal radio, the man who ran the the names.” But his contempt for us was school next week, yes? All the kinderlach shop had a number on his arm. A new clear. (children) have been here to get haircuts dry cleaners opened when I was 10, and One by one, our teens were handed for school.” Isaac said it loud enough so the couple who owned it had a son in a sheet of paper, stepped up to the I would know I was just like all the other my school. They were from Europe but microphone and started reading names boys. were certainly too young to have been that would sound strange to most . Isaac’s shop had two things that in the camps. One day I saw that my Americans: Berel Greenbaum, Yitzhak scared me. First, there was that long, friend’s father had a tattooed number. Rozenblit, Yetta Bialystok, Mottel Feld, sharp razor blade which Isaac slapped I mentioned it to my father. “They put Olya Dubrovsky, Alla Faerman, Mottel Mottel Baleston serves as Associate against the thick leather strap attached children in the concentration camps, Kaplan, Reuven Bukhman. to the porcelain barber’s chair. He’d too,” he said. I froze. Out of eight names, two were Messianic Rabbi at Beth Messiah use the blade around your ears and I began to understand the hold that Mottels. I so rarely hear anyone else with Congregation, Livingston, NJ, and is a sideburns to get that neat, clean, “first “The War” had on my community when my name and here were two Mottels, founding Board Member of AMC—The day of school” look. I was sitting in a luncheonette with my both sent to the death camps. The sheets Association of Messianic Congregations. The other thing that scared me was father while he ordered his usual, an listed the home town of each person who Isaac and Yankel’s arms. They would wear egg cream. The man preparing it was was sent to the gas chamber. One of the

September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 11 WomenOnTheForefront

Shira Sorko-Ram by Keren B. Negev

n 1965, Shira Sorko-Ram she gathered together three more 1976, whereby the Israeli Defense I was privileged to meet Prime Jewish believers, and they went on Force carried out a stunning Minister David Ben Gurion television and prayed for Golda counter-terrorism hostage rescue while on a trip to Israel with her Meir! “Newspapers by the score operation. Ari also found work father. Upon their introduction, came to me,” she marvels. “I said to in educational television in Israel, the Prime Minister asked the myself: ‘These people are hungry.’” and moved there in the summer young American, “So, when are Shira was a young woman of 1976. In February 1977, he and you moving to Israel?” . dealing with serious issues Shira were married. Shira actually did move to Israel alone. She was as yet unmarried Envisioning a strong and in 1967 from Dallas, Texas, where and, because of a shortage of vibrant Hebrew-speaking, Israeli she spent her teens and college Messianic Jews in Israel, had Messianic congregation in the years. At twenty-seven, she came to almost no fellowship with God’s Tel Aviv area, they began with a the Land to shoot a documentary family. “It was very hard, because small Bible study in their home. on the prophetic implications of there were so few born-again Ari and Shira went on to lead the Six-Day War. She decided to Jews at that time. When people two consecutive congregations in make aliyah. During production of came to my door, I didn’t know Ramat HaSharon. The second of her film, Dry Bones, Shira carefully whether they were coming to these met in the basement of their studied the Old Testament. “By harass me or to listen to me. I house. Tiferet Yeshua (“The Glory going through all the prophetic would have panic attacks.” of Yeshua”) was established in Scriptures, I realized God was going In spite of her fears, Shira 1995. Together with her husband to bring the Jewish people back to moved forward. By 1973, she Ari, Shira is also the director of the Land and to Himself—not to and Joe Shulam were leading a Maoz Israel Ministries, based in Christianity, but back to Biblical Bible study in Lod, near Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv. Keenly concerned with Judaism. The essence of Biblical Gradually, five Israeli soldiers discipleship, humanitarian aid, Judaism is Salvation through the came to the Lord. “They saw it in news reporting and publishing, Lamb of God,” she states. the Bible,” she attests. Maoz Israel also supports Tiferet A series of events began to Shira and Joe recognized it Yeshua. Within this thriving unfold in Shira’s life which would was important for these young and active community of confirm that she was in Israel sabras (native Israelis) to know approximately 200 followers of for such a time as this. In 1973, a they were not the only Jewish Messiah, there is a strong emphasis Jewish girl from Britain came to people in the world who had on discipleship and outreach. Jerusalem to stay with Shira. The accepted Yeshua. We wanted to Through Maoz Israel Ministries, girl was a Messianic Jew, whose introduce them to their peers,” Shira has been involved with parents had sent her to Israel “to Shira explains.” Despite concerted providing credible news coverage get rid of this stuff.” However, while efforts, no appropriate fellowship from Israel to the international Shira was out of the country on a was found for the new believers, community, in the form of the visit to America, the girl married and they apparently left the Maoz Israel Report. This ministry a believer in Yeshua. “Her parents faith soon afterward. Shira says, also produces, translates and were so enraged by this, they put a “I heard there were around 200 publishes spiritual books in big piece in the newspaper about Jewish believers in Israel at the Hebrew. Always on the cutting me, about how I was a ‘missionary’ time, but I did not meet them.” edge, Maoz Israel Ministries and reported about me passing Shira determined that is currently developing a new out tracts at the Western Wall, “something is going to have to media center, branching out and evangelizing at the university happen.” She went back to the into video production and social campus,” Shira recounts. “Of United States, hoping to find networking for the benefit of course, this never happened.” Messianic Jews who would be believers and non-believers alike. Shira’s faith became publicly willing to move to Israel and teach “In the early days, we didn’t known, and one day she heard new Israeli disciples how to follow have anyone in Israel to turn an explosion in her building, the Lord. “Back in the States,” to for advice or counsel. Some and discovered that a Molotov Shira continues, “I began to look of the new young pioneers are cocktail bomb had been set off everywhere I went. I found lots coming to us as their Ima and just outside her apartment door. of willing Gentiles, but most Jews Abba (Mom and Dad),” Shira The fire department came and the were more interested in living shares. “We are so happy to be a police investigated the incident comfortably in America.” part of helping raise up the next but nobody was charged with Still working as a docu- generation of Messianic leaders committing the outrage. mentary filmmaker, Shira went in Israel.” MT However, a journalist from a to Hollywood, where she met major national newspaper was in her future husband, Ari Sorko- Shira wondered, “Why the area at the time of the attack. Ram. Ari, a fellow believer, was He asked Shira why she thought an established actor working in is it that atheists and this had happened to her. “I believe films and in popular television in the God of Israel, and I know series, such as Chips and Hawaii Him personally because of Messiah Five-O. Shira challenged him by Gentiles are willing to Yeshua,” she answered. The next asking, “In the last days, God said day that national newspaper He is going to bring His people move to Israel, but not carried the article: ‘Shira Says: “I back to the Land of Israel. Why Know God.”’ is it that atheists and Gentiles are believing Jews?” “From that time on,” Shira willing to move to Israel, but not recalls, “scores of people—actors, believing Jews?” Top: Shira Sorko-Ram, a true authors, a military officer—even Ari was intrigued by her a young Orthodox group—came question. “He had signed on to pioneer of the Messianic to my apartment to ask what I a television series, and said if he Jewish movement in Israel believed.” could get out of his contract and Middle: In 1965, Shira meets Shira was invited to go on find an acting job in Israel, he Israel’s Prime Minister, David national radio and television to would come.” A few weeks later, Ben-Gurion talk about her faith. “The army Ari was released from his series, Bottom: A young Shira lights radio asked me for an interview, and was hired for a part in a film in as well.” Shira remembers the time the Land about the Entebbe raid of the Sabbath candles

12 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 HolyDays A Guided Tour of the Fall Holy Days

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Following Yom Kippur, SUKKOT the mood lightens as we 8); build booths and remember the Feast of the time our ancestors wandered in the desert, tabernacles after the Exodus from Egypt.

We shake the lulav (palm, myrtle, willow) and the etrog (citron) in every direction. The last day of Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah, finalizes the period of divine judgment, begun on Rosh HaShanah. Sukkot is followed by Shemini Atzeret (“the Eighth Day”). SIMCHAT TORAH In the diaspora it is a two-day celebration. 958-1$ On the first day, prayers rejoicing in the torah for rain are recited. The second day is Simchat Torah. The Torah is processed around the synagogue seven times accompanied by singing and dancing. Then the Torah is rolled back to the beginning, Beresheet (Genesis) as we start a fresh new year, serving the Messiah and growing in God’s Word.

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September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 15 HolyDays

Rosh HaShanah, Persian Style by Elisheva Hartman

s the fall festivals approach, Jewish people including Samira Yaqub, who left Tehran Ashkenazi Jews (whose ancestors Aaround the world prepare to usher in the during the 1979 Revolution. come from Yiddish-speaking areas of Gondis: Iranian Meatballs Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe), ten days of In spite of the need to flee the Eastern, Central and Northwestern repentance and reflection. Rosh Hashanah, country, Samira, the eldest of seven Europe) at one time held a seder the Jewish New Year, begins the ten-day children, looks back with fondness to her at Rosh Hashanah, but no longer period which concludes at Yom Kippur, the childhood in Tehran. Some of her best observe this holiday ritual. They Day of Atonement, when the names of the memories include celebrating the Jewish celebrate the New Year with special righteous are believed to be sealed in the holidays, especially at Rosh HaShanah. foods, nonetheless. Apples and Book of Life. Rosh Hashanah 2009 (5770 by This ancient practice traces its roots to the challah dipped in honey are a wish the Jewish calendar) will start at sunset on Babylonian Talmud and Rabbi Abbaye. for sweetness in the coming year. Friday, September 18 and end after nightfall He sanctioned eating specific foods which Challah, normally braided, is baked on Sunday, September 20. grew in abundance, signifying prosperity in round shape, symbolizing the Iranian Jews mark the occasion from God in the New Year. “My father cycle of life. Kugel, a sweet noodle with a seder. (Yes, a seder!) Long would recite blessings in Hebrew, then dish, is served along with gefilte fish, associated with the Passover meal, they read from the Torah. As children, we brisket, and tsimmes—carrots baked are also celebrated at Rosh Hashanah; a giggled and fidgeted, eager to taste the with honey. The Yiddish word for centuries-old custom among Sephardic treats my mother had made.” carrots is meren, which also means A recipe unique to many Persian Jewish and Mizrahi Jews from Spain, Portugal, Many Iranian Jews, like Samira, “to increase,” denoting the hope of communities, gondi is a dumpling originally Northern Africa, the Middle East, and have settled in other parts of the world, increased blessings in the New Year. created to make an expensive cut of meat Asia—and by their descendants. including Israel, Southern California Ashkenazi, Sephardic and go a long way. Often eaten as a side dish Jews have had a long, if uneven, and Long Island, New York. They have Mizrahi communities follow a or appetizer, gondi is served in chicken history in Iran (Persia) for close to three chosen to carry on the Middle Eastern delectable tradition on the second soup on Shabbat and at the holidays. At thousand years. Since their expulsion practice of a Rosh HaShana seder. night of Rosh HaShanah. The Rosh Hashanah, it's always on the menu! from the northern kingdom of Israel Simanim—symbolic foods—are placed shehechiyanu blessing, thanking in 722 BCE, through Nebuchadnezzar’s on a fine white cloth and the family God for enabling us to reach This recipe makes 8–10 dumplings, sacking of Jerusalem on Tisha B’Av (the reclines on the carpet while they eat. this season, is recited over “new” 9th of Av) a century and a half later, they Foods may vary according to the region. fruit. It is customary to enjoy a depending on size. were carried into captivity, dispersed The meal is known as Yehi Ratzon, since pomegranate, or other fruit that across the Middle East and beyond. each blessing begins, Yehi ratzon “May has not yet been eaten yet this 2 cups (1/2 kg) ground chicken, turkey, The Persian king, Cyrus the it be God’s will.” (See list of foods and autumn, to taste and savor the or lamb. Great, conquered Babylon fulfilling an blessings below.) newness of the coming year. Jewish 3-4 medium onions, astonishing prediction. Isaiah (chapters No holiday is complete without families, the world over, will be 44 and 45) mentions Cyrus—by name— chicken soup and gondi. Unique to heard calling out, “L’shanah tovah 1 cup (1/4 kg) chickpea flour as the one who allows the captives to Persian Jews, gondi is a dumpling, similar tikatevu,” warmly greeting one 1 tablespoon olive oil return to Jerusalem and rebuild the to a matzah ball. It’s made with chickpeas, another with this wish—“May your 1 teaspoon each of salt and pepper Temple. Jerusalem was a flourishing city chicken, and cardamom, a slightly sweet name be inscribed in the Book of 1/2 teaspoon cardamom when this prophecy was given. It would spice in the ginger family. Life for a good year!” MT be another 100 years before the city fell, chicken soup and 150 years until Cyrus ascended the throne. Although some 40,000 exiles Blessings recited over various foods Finely grate the onions. Then add ground returned to Judah, most chose to remain chicken or turkey. • Dates (dried or fresh). A pun: Yitamu, Hebrew for consumed, is in Persia. tamar King Darius the Great continued similar to the Hebrew word for date— . “May our enemies be Next, mix in the chickpea flour until well the work of rebuilding the temple. consumed.” blended. Add olive oil, salt, pepper and Documented in the Book of Ezra, Darius cardamom. Mixture should be doughy, • Pomegranates. The rabbis teach that this luscious fruit contains ordered “the cost be paid at the king’s like a matzah ball. If not, add water, a expense.” The temple was completed in 613 seeds, the exact number of mitzvot (commandments) in the teaspoon at a time, to reach the right 516 BCE, during his reign. Torah. “In the coming year, may it be God’s will that we complete as consistency. Darius’s son, Xerxes (Ahasuerus), many good deeds as the pomegranate has seeds.” chose a Jewish maiden named Esther to Refrigerate for several hours, until well be his queen. • Apples, dipped in honey. “May our whole year be sweet.” He bestowed favor on her by allowing chilled. the Jewish people to arm themselves • Black-eyed peas. These are always plentiful and represent fertility. against a planned annihilation. The Book “May you be blessed with many children.” Form the mixture into two-inch balls. of Esther records that the Jewish people Delicately drop into chicken soup that has were held in high regard. Many Gentiles • Zucchini, simmered until they become translucent and airy. “May been brought to a boil. Reduce the heat to converted to Judaism, and God’s people our sins be as light as air.” a simmer. flourished. Today, conditions in Iran are not quite • Beets, roasted and drizzled with olive oil. “May we be red-faced, Cover the pot, and let the gondi cook for as favorable. Officially, Jewish citizens full of health and happiness.” about 45 minutes. are afforded legal protection, but in reality, they face intense discrimination. • Leeks, served in broth. A play on the Hebrew word for leek, karti Due to religious concerns and economic sounds like yikartu, to cut off. “May our enemies be cut off.” hardships, many Jews emigrated,

16 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 HolyDays

Rosh HaShanah: A Tale of Two Breads by June Levine

very Shabbat, the aroma of as we approach each new year, Echallah fills Jewish homes. The we are charged to rise up, to rich, fluffy concoction signals the improve, to evaluate our hearts weekly paradigm shift from the and behaviors, to recommit our tempo of our daily grind to a sacred lives to God and the performance space that lives outside of time… of God’s commands. We seek the approach of the Sabbath. It is positive change and personal not only distinguished from work spiritual growth as we await the days, it is even set apart from other sound of the shofar. Sabbaths. For that reason, a regular Heraclitus, an ancient Greek challah simply will not do. philosopher was famous for his The Rosh HaShanah challah is epigram that one could not enter round, often bursting with raisins the same river twice. You might or other special flavors. Sometimes step in the same place, but the a little extra honey is added to constantly rushing water made the make the challah sweeter. Family situation ever new. As we enter the members will also dip a piece into annual cycle of prayers, our words honey at a festive meal and wish may be the same, but who we are one another a sweet year. The with each passing year brings traditional new year’s greeting— new insight. The Rosh HaShanah shanah tova (a good year) is often challah that spirals up toward the appended with oometukah— middle is a reminder of that cycle meaning “and a sweet one, too!” of growth. Before baking, the top of the challah is brushed with egg white, Casting our Sins into the Sea melted margarine or sometimes Even as this dulcet delight plays a mixture of sugar and water. an important role in the holiday Seeds are then sprinkled on top— meal, bread also appears on the usually sesame or poppy seeds, but afternoon of the first day of Rosh in other regions, coriander might HaShanah in a ceremony called used. According to tradition, the tashlikh—casting bread upon the Apple-Honey Challah seeds represent the manna that fell water. The service was inspired • 1/2 tablespoon active dry yeast • 4 tablespoons granulated sugar from heaven during the wilderness during medieval times by the wanderings of the Israelites. verse, Malachi 7:19: “God will • 1 teaspoon salt • 1/2 tsp cinnamon have compassion on us. He will • 1/8 tsp freshly grated nutmeg • 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour The Cycle of Life cast all our sins into the depths of • 1 cup warm milk (whole or low-fat) • 2 eggs + 1 for the glaze What is the symbolism of this the sea.” • 4 tablespoons of olive oil + 1 teaspoon for greasing the bowl and another for the glaze tradition? First of all, a challah— To perform tashlikh, bread- which is made before sundown crumbs are carried down to a body • 3/4 tablespoon dark wildflower honey • 1/2 cup diced organic dry apples before the Sabbath—is braided of preferably flowing water. Micah before baking. Some say that this 7:18–20 is read: In a large bowl whisk the yeast, sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1 cup of the flour. Add warm act of creative work (melachah) milk, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of olive oil, then the honey. Vigorously mix the ingredients until smooth, is a final effort of labor before the Who is like You, God, who Sabbath, when work, particularly removes iniquity and overlooks scraping the sides of the bowl halfway through, about 3 minutes. Add remaining flour 1/2 cup at a creative work, is forbidden. transgression of the remainder time, alternating with apples. Switch to a wooden spoon when the dough becomes too thick for the According to some, this round of His inheritance? He does not whisk. Continue mixing the dough until it is too stiff to stir. challah, unique to Rosh HaShanah, remain angry forever because represents a crown, acknowledging He desires kindness. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until soft and springy, about 4 minutes. If God as King—Melekh (see Hebrew Corner). Many of the prayers from He will return and He will be the dough is sticky, dust with flour, 1 tablespoon at a time—just enough to prevent it from sticking to the High Holy Day machzor (prayer merciful to us, and He will the surface. The dough is done when smooth, and small air bubbles show under the skin. If you press book) begin Avinu, Malkeynu— conquer our iniquities, and He your thumb into it the impression should bounce back. A slightly firm dough is exactly what you want. Our Father, Our King. Filled with will cast off our sins into the raisins, this luscious loaf resembles depths of the seas. Give truth Place the dough in a deep container greased with 1 tsp of olive oil. Turn the dough once to coat the a grand, jeweled crown worthy of to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, the King of the universe, beneficent like that you swore to our top and cover with plastic wrap. Allow it to rise at room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 1–1/2 ruler of humankind. ancestors from long ago. to 2 hours. Others explain that the round or spiral-shaped challah Congregants toss the crumbs into Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease it with non-stick spray. Gently deflate the represents the calendar cycle the water, confident of forgiveness. dough by pressing your fingers into it, then turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough which begins at Rosh HaShanah— Factoring into the Holy Day the head of the year—then season in a variety of ways, Judaism into three long strands, braid the strands, then form them into a circle and connect the ends. continues through the fall and teaches that partaking of bread winter, proceeds into the spring should always be accompanied by Pre-heat oven to 350º F and place the braided dough on your baking sheet; cover loosely with plastic holidays and summer harvest, the traditional blessing: wrap and let rise until almost doubled in bulk, 30–40 minutes. Just before the rising time has finished and finally returns again to the whisk together 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Gently brush the dough with it. Place the dough in fall Holy Days. The Hebrew word Baruch atah Adonai, eloheynu for year, shanah, comes from the melekh ha’olam, hamotzi lechem the oven and bake for 30–35 minutes, or until the bread is a deep golden brown and sounds hollow root meaning both “repetition” min ha’aretz. when you thump it. and “change.” On one hand, there is continuity to the order Blessed are You, Lord our God, When your bread is done transfer it to a baking rack to cool. Allow to cool completely before slicing— of the annual cycle, where the King of the universe, who brings or at least wait until it’s warm, not hot. Enjoy! community of Israel has come forth bread from the earth. to expect the seasonal change, and the Holy Days, to anticipate In these two ways, then, God’s simple the convocations, gatherings, sustenance plays an important role in When we celebrate: and prayers. On the other hand, today’s celebration of the new year. MT Rosh HaShanah begins at sunset on Wednesday, September 20, 2017

September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 17 HolyDays The Ten Days of Awe: Piety and Uncertainty by Olivier Melnick

Passover (Pesach) was fulﬁlled by His death, First Fruits by His resurrection, and the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) by the birth of the Body of Messiah. These are followed by the Fall Feast that seem to point us to God’s end-time program. The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShanah) relates to the call that will herald the end times, (Yom Kippur) might be prophetically be consummated by the Great Tribulation, and Tabernacles (Sukkot) by the advent of the Millennial Kingdom of Messiah.

That day is known as Shabbat Shuvah, or the Shabbat of Repentance and is probably one of the most observed Shabbats of the Jewish calendar. Great emphasis is placed on connecting or reconnecting with family, friends and co-workers to establish forgiveness. Jewish people spend a great deal of time examining their own lives and personal relationships. Despite a fear-driven piety, traditional Jews still have no guarantee that God will look favorably on them. The great reformer of early Judaism, Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai, wept on his deathbed. When his disciples asked him od’s program for Israel and for Throughout the ages, Jewish sages Messianic Jews do not consider these why, he answered: “I have before me Gmankind can be summarized in have added non-Levitical practices to be inspired writings, but only two roads, one to Paradise and one to one word: Redemption. In His infinite in conjunction with the Biblical Holy commentaries). It is believed that those Gehenna (hell), and I know not whether grace and love for us, He provided a Days. The purpose of enhancing whose names are found in the Book of (God) will sentence me to Gehenna or Redeemer in the person of Yeshua the the Jewish calendar was usually to Life of the Wicked will be condemned to admit me to Paradise” (Berachot 28b). Messiah. His substitutionary death protect our people from trespassing death. Those who are found in the Book Believers in Yeshua know beyond and resurrection are the foundation the boundaries of Torah. One such of Life of the Righteous are promised an the shadow of a doubt that God has of our faith. For more details about rabbinical addendum is known as abundant life in the future. The fate of written their name in the Lamb’s Book the Messiah’s redemptive career, we Yamim Nora’im, or the Ten Days of those inscribed in “The Book of Life of of Life. They will have eternal life with must turn to the God-ordained Jewish Awe. This observance helps our Jewish Those In Between” is deferred until Yom Him in Paradise and not be separated calendar and follow the blessed order people prepare for the High Holy Day Kippur. That is why at Rosh HaShanah, from Him in Gehenna (Rev. 3:5; 20:12, of His Holy Convocations, particularly of Yom Kippur that falls between Rosh Jewish people wish each other lashanah 15). Yet all the wisdom and great deeds as delineated in Leviticus 23. HaShanah on the first of the month of tova tikatevu, which means, “May you of Rabbi Ben Zakkai could not assure As the spring festivals were all Tishri and Yom Kippur on the tenth of be inscribed for a good year.” They are his salvation, and that is simply because fulfilled by the First Coming of the Tishri. offering one another hope for a good salvation cannot be earned. Messiah, the fall feasts will be fulfilled It can easily be argued that Yom and prosperous year. Tradition says that It is true that we all have sinned by the events of His Second Coming. Kippur is the most solemn day of the God opens the three books on Rosh (Eccl. 7:20), and the Ten Days of Awe Passover (Pesach) was fulfilled by His Jewish calendar. It is appropriate that Hashanah, then takes a good look at might very well be a good reminder for death, First Fruits by His resurrection, in preparation for this holy fast of our lives and finally renders judgment us as followers of the Jewish Messiah and the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) by the the Lord, our people would search on Yom Kippur. To pious Jewish people, that it is always good to seek repentance, birth of the Body of Messiah. These are their hearts with reflection, seeking the Ten days of Awe can easily become reconciliation and even restitution. But followed by the fall feasts that point us repentance, restoration, and even the Ten Days of Fear, as inscription in these acts of piety do not give us a free to God’s end-time program. The Feast restitution. the proper book is tantamount to a ticket to having our name inscribed of Trumpets (Rosh HaShanah) relates to Traditional Jews believe that on good upcoming year. in the Book of the Righteous. Instead, the call that will herald the end times, Rosh HaShanah, God opens three books During the Days of Awe, many of salvation has come as a free gift from (Yom Kippur) might be prophetically be in heaven and judges all mankind. The our people reflect on their sins. Special God (Eph. 2:8–9), given to all, regardless consummated by the Great Tribulation, Talmud (Rosh HaShanah 16b) tells us prayers of repentance are recited in the of our sins, when we put our trust in and Tabernacles (Sukkot) by the advent of the inscribing of our names in one synagogue, especially on the Shabbat Yeshua the Messiah and the saving of the Millennial Kingdom of Messiah. of these three volumes. (Of course, that falls within the Ten Days of Awe. power of His death and resurrection. MT

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Yom Kippur in Israel by C.B. Cohen A Time to Stop The Yom Kippur pause begins hours driving, except for the occasional police it deserves, sometimes gathering in small The frantic pace of today’s world seems to before sundown. Shops lock up as early as car or emergency vehicle. The empty groups in homes within walking distance increase exponentially with each passing 2:00 p.m. Gas stations close, restaurants— roads are irresistible! Kids hit the streets from one another, to pray for the nation day. Information races across the globe in even McDonalds—shut down. Cable with bicycles, skates, skateboards and and all of the Jewish people. They fast nanoseconds. On the day of Yom Kippur, companies stop broadcasting. Cars and scooters. For youngsters, this is an almost and, later on, break the fast together. however, Jewish life takes a 24-hour hiatus. buses disappear from the streets as people surreal time of joy. Since children do not Remembering the great price that Yeshua A time for reflection and confession. For settle into their neighborhoods and have to fast until they reach the age of Bar paid for atonement, we are thankful that He contrition and repentance. For Jews in homes. Families gather for a final meal or Bat Mitzvah, they enjoy themselves provided it through the shedding of blood, the Diaspora, it’s a time to turn inward before embarking on their Yom Kippur while cheerfully munching on Bomba, as God required in the Tanach. “For the life while the world around maintains its usual fast. Once the sun sets, the Shabbat of a crunchy peanut-flavored snack. Even of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it frenetic pace. But in Israel, both the internal complete rest begins; there will be no outside synagogues, Orthodox children to you upon the altar to make atonement for and external clocks slow to a respectful halt. preparation of food, no clean up, no more play, though the tone is understandably your souls,” (Leviticus 17:11). Yom Kippur in Israel. Time stands tempting smells wafting in. more subdued. Even though Yom Kippur does not still, like a DVD on pause. Everything that Fasting is how the command to One odd statistic that is the result of officially end until daylight disappears, seems urgent yesterday will be urgent again humble the soul, as described in the book this “unorthodox” street play is that there cities in Israel spring to life again in the tomorrow. For today, it will all have to wait. of Leviticus is understood. But the fast is are more juvenile emergency room visits late afternoon, as the sun approaches the The ten days between Rosh HaShanah not for food only; also denied is television on this day than any other. horizon. Many emerge from their homes and Yom Kippur are called Yomim Nora’im and other forms of entertainment—even One believer, a vatika (a “veteran”; to travel to family or friends for the (Days of Awe)—a last chance to reconcile air conditioning and cigarettes. one who has lived in the Land for over breaking of the fast. Shopping, restaurant with others. The Hebrew expression, Even Israelis who are not religious seven years), takes issue with what she dining and television broadcasts do not Heshbon haNefesh, the accounting of one’s may attend synagogue on this most considers the cavalier attitude of children resume, however, until about 8:00 p.m. soul, expresses the idea of balancing one’s solemn day. Readings from Leviticus playing in the streets on this solemn day. “I Yom Kippur is the most sacred spiritual and interpersonal credits and and Numbers recount the Yom Kippur made aliyah before the Yom Kippur War. day of the Jewish calendar. It’s a time debits. In an attempt to secure forgiveness commandments, outlining the sacrifices It was the worst war ever. Yom Kippur to gather with fellow worshipers. To from fellow human beings, a tradition of and underlining the importance of the should really be regarded as a memorial contemplate. To pray. To “take an purchasing sweets to secure forgiveness has priestly service and God’s instructions for day. It might come across as disrespectful accounting” of our souls and to resolve become popular among some in Israel. Stores achieving atonement. Rounding out the when believers let their children outside to do better next year if God grants us bustle with the last-minute sales of sweets readings are Isaiah 57 and 58, where God to ride bikes on that day. If not fasting life. May God grant us all another year and other goodies…just in case. As Proverbs urges Israel to repent and return to Him. for their sins, our neighbors may be in to draw closer to Him and to love one 18:16 states, “a man’s gift goes before him.” In the afternoon, the congregation gathers mourning for the passing of a loved one, as another as He commanded. MT Some businesses bestow presents upon their once again to read the book of Jonah, the Kaddish (mourner’s prayer) is recited employees; sometimes relatives exchange gifts which emphasizes teshuvah (repentance). on Yom Kippur. How does our children’s with one other. As the book is read and discussed, free play show that we are different? This understanding of God’s desire for people point is well taken. Yeshua calls us to be Humbling the Soul to return to Him deepens. light and salt. We and our children need to Leviticus 23:32 says Yom Kippur must be exemplify proper behavior at all times.” “a Sabbath of complete rest to you, and you When the Streets are Clear shall humble your souls; on the ninth of Less Orthodox Israelis might send their Believers in the Land the month at evening, from evening until children out to play in the afternoon, Most Israeli believers and their families do evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.” knowing that on this day no one is approach Yom Kippur with the seriousness

Sukkot is by C.B. Cohen the time Sukkot: America/Israel for Israeli Sukkot in America? Not As Much Israel, even government organizations Right before Sukkot, city councils au- trees and I don’t really remember celebrating the secular businesses, and restaurants do thorize the trimming of the date palms that vines to holiday of Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles) not want to alienate their constituency. line the roads; it’s a common sight to see be picked when I grew up in America. Part of four So during Sukkot, a majority of them cars pull over so people can load branches clean of congregations, in four different Amer- provide a sukkah for their patrons… and bunches of dates into their cars. dates ican states, over a period of 11 years, I even the police station! More observant Inside the sukkah you’ll find a table have a very small stock of Sukkot images Israelis even sleep in the sukkah to the and chairs. Walls are decorated with real and personal recollections. delight of their children (who says Jews or artificial fruit, garlands, party deco- Sukkot in the United States is more of don’t camp!?) But most Israelis simply rations, twinkling lights, and children’s a congregational affair—usually indoors use it for dining, receiving guests and pictures. One police station displays pho- because it is often cold—celebrated with schmoozing. tographs of venerated rabbis inside their special Israeli dancing, food, and teach- In the days before erev hag (eve of sukkah, which is considered a blessing. ings about the feast and God’s goodness the holiday) you can hear the pounding An Israeli family now living in Solvakia to Israel in the wilderness. Here in Israel, of nails into wood throughout the neigh- moves their sukkah in the living room Sukkot by Any Other Name Sukkot is celebrated completely different- borhood. And while there are not elabo- whenever there are a few feet of snow Sukkot is also called the Feast of the Ingathering. ly. It is not just something you do in at the rate architectural plans, such as those for outside. The origins of the name are simple and reflect congregation…it’s something each family the tabernacle in the wilderness, there are the holiday’s agricultural beginnings. In celebrates—right in our own back yard. certain parameters for sukkah-building. Sukkot and Hospitality ancient days, Sukkot was to be celebrated Leviticus 23:42–3 says, “You shall live in Hospitality is important in the spirit of by feasting, following the bountiful harvest booths [sukkot] for seven days… so that your Temporary Habitat for Humanity Sukkot, which takes on a little of the air of of the autumn crops. generations may know that I had the sons of A sukkah is a temporary dwelling. It’s an American Thanksgiving. An Israeli Today, two foods whose harvest in Israel live in booths when I brought them out not supposed to be made with perma- movie called Ushpizin, depicts a sukkah Israel coincides with Sukkot are water- from the land of Egypt.” Today, over three nent materials, such as metal bars or steel guest situation that goes terribly awry. melon and corn. In addition, the timing millennia later, Israelis still build booths, bolts. Some kits do use metal construc- A newly Orthodox couple is visited by is right for Israeli trees and vines to be which pop up everywhere. Don’t have a tion, but the pieces fit into another, like a two escaped convicts—unsavory ac- picked clean of dates, grapes, pomegran- back yard? No problem. Build your sukkah puzzle, and it is designed to assemble and quaintances from the past—who push ates, olives and figs. Round challot are on your driveway, sidewalk, porch…just disassemble every year. the limits of their hosts’ hospitality. baked and served during this festive time build it! You can see booths spring up in At least three sides are made of cloth, The impoverished and childless couple, as with other holidays. front of restaurants; even the police station like bedsheets. You must be able see the desperately in need of a blessing from If you’ve never built a sukkah, don’t has a sukkah standing in front of it! moon and stars through the roof. Usual- God, sees the situation as a test of their miss this fall’s opportunity to recall the ly skhakh (leafy branches, described in sincerity and love for God. In addition time when our ancestors lived in booths. A Sukkah at a Police Station? Leviticus 23:40) are laid across the top of to being a warm, sensitive story, Ush- Decorate it festively and invite your Why would a police station have a sukkah? the sukkah, whose cross-beams support pizin offers a cinematic picture of what friends for a meal. Be grateful for all the According to halakhah (Jewish law), peo- the branches. Some throw on some pine Israeli cities look like during the Feast Lord has provided and share generously ple are required to eat in the sukkah. In branches because of the lovely scent. of Tabernacles. in God’s bountiful goodness. MT

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The Great Torah Roll by June Levine The air was brisk, unmistakably October. Our neighborhood was brimming with singing and laughter as a procession of lights emerged from the tiny synagogue. Candles were affixed into the shiny red, cored apples, which had been stuck onto the thin wooden dowels of hand-colored paper flags. The songs were in Yiddish. The voices were innocent and clear. Tonight was Simchat Torah (Rejoicing with the Torah), the culmination of a season of holy days. As the rabbi and then other adults carried the scrolls around the building and outside, performing seven hakafot (circuits), we children followed with our songs and flags and apples and candles, in what felt like the happiest day of the Jewish year. We followed the Torah as if it were our moral compass, our holy grail. We felt joy, pride, and purpose. —June Levine’s fond memories of Simchat Torah are interspersed throughout this article.

The Torah has been the focal point of the of Atonement), and finally culminating Jewish religion for at least two millennia. with Sukkot. As with many observances Before its destruction in 70 CE, worship in the diaspora, Sh’mini Atzeret began to and ceremony were Temple-centered, be observed for two days, because of the The Song of the Sea, dominated by the priests and the system uncertainty concerning when to observe of offerings that were spelled out with holy days outside the Land. Exodus 15:1–21, as it precision in the book of Leviticus. Later, this “ninth day of Sukkot” would appears in the Torah, Pilgrimage festivals meant journeying assume an identity of its own. Beginning th to Jerusalem in order to perform these rites sometime in the 11 century, as the annual begins “I will sing to of the faith that had been in place since the cycle of Torah reading was becoming more early days of the Tabernacle. However, once standardized among synagogues. Jews the Lord, for he is the Temple no longer stood, and later, when began to celebrate this day when, having the Jews were banished from Jerusalem read the final words of Deuteronomy highly exalted. Both (132 ce), the focus of what became Judaism (Devarim), scrolls would be reverently laid as we understand it today, was the Torah upon the bimah (table where the Torah horse and driver he has itself. Religious practice now centered is read) and gently rewound, all the way around emerging synagogues and home- back to Genesis (B’resheet). The following hurled into the sea.” synagogues, whose services highlighted the Shabbat meant restarting the reading cycle reading of the Word of God from the Torah for the new year with the stirring words, with accompanying portions from the In the beginning. The holiday celebration historical and poetic Writings (Ketuvim) including certain appropriate liturgical is associated with life and favor, and Messianic Jewish Understanding and Prophets (Nevi’im). Since much of poems along with the practice of parading supplicants ask for God’s blessing upon of Simchat Torah the Levitical program could no longer the Torah around the sanctuary. In some the people and Land to be abundant and Belief in Yeshua the Messiah as the be implemented, performance became synagogues, every single person is invited up overflowing. embodiment of God’s Word can raise replaced by Torah study, which in later for an aliyah (to chant prayers introducing The cry, Hoshia na—Save us, up the experience of Simchat Torah years became synonymous with practice the Torah reading). The emphasis of the please—rises from the congregation along for each believer. The physicality of the itself as the main expression of worship. celebration was participatory and the holiday with words that echo throughout the holy Torah scroll, a source of excitement in became so enjoyable that Simchat Torah season: Anenu b’yom koreinu—answer us the annual holiday celebration, becomes History of Simchat Torah grew in popularity. on the day we call. The exuberance of the even more dynamic as one considers Scan the Scriptures thoroughly and you Even in modern synagogues, holiday can be understood as an extended John 1:14: will still not find the holiday we call Simchat congregants claim that standing (and conversation with God who, through His Torah. Following on the heels of the seven- dancing) in the presence of the open Word, has given His people life, purpose, The Word became flesh and made his day Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)—one of scrolls evokes joy, reverence and even a and identity as His children. dwelling among us. We have seen His the three original pilgrimage celebrations sense of ownership. The written Word of Antiphonal chanting is used during the glory, the glory of the one and only of Leviticus 23—Simchat Torah is like an God, lovingly inscribed by hand according Simchat Torah service. Six verses of a song Son, who came from the Father, full of exuberant exclamation point, coming at to ancient traditions by meticulously called Attah HaReita (“It has been shown grace and truth. the end of this Biblical holiday season. trained craftsmen, never fails to bring you,” from Deuteronomy 4:35) is recited As Sukkot draws to a close, the Torah enthusiasm to those observing. back and forth, imitating the number Likewise, knowing that Messiah, the Son calls for a holy convocation on the eighth of steps taken by the priests in their of David has come, in fulfillment of God’s day of the festival: As I watched the men of our synagogue procession with the Torah, before King promises to Israel, brings the subject of painstakingly and lovingly rewind the David made an offering (2 Samuel 6:13). Messianic longing into focus for the return …on the eighth day hold a sacred Torah I waited for the moment that was, In the Simchat Torah liturgy, of Yeshua, the light of the world and the assembly and present a food offering for me, the highlight of the entire evening. A traditional Messianic themes can be answer to all prayers of God’s people. to the Lord. It is the closing special little more than halfway through the rolling, found. The restoration of the Temple and assembly; do no regular work the process would stop as they arrived at the the re-emergence of the House of David— A Final Simchat Torah Memory (Leviticus 23:36). panel that contained the words of Exodus both Messianic preparations—are part of The evening gave way to deep darkness 15:1–21, known as the Song of the Sea, or the service, indicating a longing to see the as the Torah was tucked back into its This final day of Sukkot became known Miriam’s Song. It was always easy to spot, fruition of God’s promises. place in the ark. The candles had long as Sh’mini Atzeret (literally: “eighth day because the layout of the words was unlike Flags are carried by the children gone out. Apples were eaten. It was time assembly.”) It is a time to reflect on the anything else in the Torah. during the procession. They are used to for children, too, to be tucked in after holiday and indeed the entire season, which imitate the banners of the twelve original seven long circuits of marching and begins in late summer with the month Simchat Torah Themes tribes. The apples represent abundance singing around the synagogue. We had of Elul (preparation for the holy days), As in the Sukkot liturgy, a request for and harvest, timely and appropriate, for seen the scroll rewound; we were ready continued through Rosh HaShanah (the plentiful rainfall accompanies both Simchat Torah takes place during apple for a new cycle of readings. A new year Feast of Trumpets), the Yomim Nora’im Sh’mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. season. The candles represent the light of for the Torah. A new beginning for Jews (Ten Days of Awe), Yom Kippur (the Day Particularly in the Middle East, water the Torah. everywhere. MT

20 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 HolyDays Recipes Beﬁtting the Holiest Days of the Year

Sweet Challah for Rosh HaShanah Contributed by Jenny Berg Chandler Tashlich Humor

The head of the year deserves a crown. On the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, This one’s like a giant Jewish Cinnabon® there is a ceremony called Tashlich. served with spreadable honey. Traditionally people go to the ocean, Watch the faces around the table light up! stream or river to pray and throw bread crumbs into the water. 1 package dry yeast (about 2-1/4 teaspoons) 1 cup warm water (100° to 110°) The Scripture says, 3 tablespoons honey Dash of saffron threads, crushed Who is a God like you, 3 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled pardoning the sin 1 teaspoon salt and overlooking the crimes 1 large egg of the remnant of his heritage? 3 cups bread ﬂour, He does not retain his anger forever, divided into 2 1/2 and 1/2 cups because he delights in grace. 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon mixed together He will again have compassion on us, Cooking spray he will subdue our iniquities, Baking parchment You will throw all their sins 1 teaspoon water and 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten into the depths of the sea.

Babushka Nelia displays her Dissolve yeast in 1 cup warm water in a large —Micah 7:18, 19 (now) world-famous borscht. bowl; stir in honey and saffron threads. Let stand for 5 minutes. Add melted butter, Symbolically, the fish devour the sins. 1 teaspoon salt, and egg; stir well with a whisk. Occasionally, people ask what kind of Add 2-3/4 cups flour to yeast mixture and stir bread crumbs should be thrown. until a soft dough forms. Cover and let stand for 15 minutes. Here are suggestions for breads which may be most appropriate for specific sins and Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. misbehaviors: Knead until smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes). Add enough of remaining flour, 1 tablespoon at a For ordinary sins White Bread time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands For dark sins Pumpernickel (dough will be very soft). For complex sins Multigrain Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking For twisted sins Pretzels spray, turning to coat top. Cover and let rise in a For tasteless sins Rice Cakes warm place (85°), free from drafts, 40 minutes or Babushka Nelia’s Cold Low-Calorie Borscht until doubled in size. (Gently press two fingers For sins of indecision Waffles into dough. If an indentation remains, the dough For sins committed in haste Matzah Ingredients: has risen enough.) 2 medium beets 1 medium onion For sins of chutzpah Fresh Bread 1-1/2 liters of water salt to taste Punch dough down. For substance abuse Stoned Wheat lemon juice to taste green onions Shape dough into a ball and return to bowl. For use of heavy drugs Poppy Seed 1 cucumber fresh dill Cover and let rise an additional 40 minutes or sour cream or low-fat yogurt (optional) until doubled in size. Punch dough down; cover For petty larceny Stollen and let rest 15 minutes. For committing auto theft Caraway Coarsely grate the beets and the onion and put them into For timidity/cowardice Milk Toast boiling salt water. Cook for 45 minutes, or until beets are soft. Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Working Add lemon juice. Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate with 1 portion at a time (cover remaining dough For ill-temperedness Sourdough until cold. Before serving, peel the cucumber and dice it finely. to prevent drying), on a lightly floured surface, For silliness, eccentricity Nut Bread roll each portion into a 25'' rope and then flatten. Sprinkle chopped cucumber, chopped green onion, and chopped Pour a thin line of the cinnamon sugar down the For not giving full value Shortbread dill into every guest’s bowl. Then pour the borscht. center of each flattened rope. Pinch dough over For chauvinism Yankee Doodles Enjoy! the cinnamon sugar to seal it inside the rope. For excessive irony Rye Bread Braid ropes; pinch loose ends to seal. Now roll the braided challah up and place on a large baking For unnecessary chances Hero Bread Babushka Nelia’s Eggplant Salad sheet w/parchment. For war-mongering Kaiser Rolls For causing injury to others Tortes Ingredients: Cover and let rise 20 minutes or until almost dou- 1 medium eggplant 2 tomatoes bled in size. Preheat oven to 375°. For being holier than thou Bagels 1 medium onion salt For abrasiveness Grits Combine 1 teaspoon water and large egg yolk, Place eggplant on oven rack at 270 degrees F for 45 minutes, stirring with a fork until blended. Uncover loaf, Dropping in without notice Popovers or until soft. Peel the eggplant and blend in food processor with and gently brush with egg yolk mixture. For overeating Stuffing the raw tomatoes and raw onion until smooth. Add salt to taste, For impetuosity Quick Bread and cool in refrigerator. Bake at 375° for 30 minutes or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Cool on a wire rack. Raising your voice too often Challah This delicious salad was brought by Babushka Nelia from For pride and egotism Puff Pastry Russia to Israel and the whole family loves it. We hope you For laziness A Long Loaf like it too. The Messianic Times is pleased to include these family holiday recipes given by our writers whose For trashing the environment Dumplings articles appear in this issue. L’Shanah Tovah! MT For telling puns Corn Bread

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Antonio Arroyo Tues11:30am Prophecy in the News 7pm Yeshiva Class Daily Bible 5005 Calle San Raphael 92264 (near Dinah Shore & Gene Autry Meets: 619 NE First St. 32601 (352) 485-1210 www.kolsimcha.org Reading Weekdays 9am (205) 822-2510 www.shalombirmingham.com Intersection) Serv: Sat 10am (760) 668-5966 [email protected] [email protected] www.ohavshalomministries.com [email protected] Lakeland: Etz Chayim Messianic Synagogue -IAMCS Rabbi Yosi Laster Daphne: Congregation Mayim Chayim-IAMCS Rabbi David Tokajer San Diego: Kehilat Ariel-UMJC Rabbi Barney Kasdan Meets: 3219 Meets: Trinity Christian Center 4416 E County Rd 540-A Serv: Sat Meets: 10526 County Road 64, Daphne (251) 279-0068 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Serv: Sat 10:30am (children’s program) Youth & 11am Tues 6:30pm (863) 274-6141 www.myetzchayim.org www.shalomeasternshore.com [email protected] Yeshiva class Tues 7pm (858) 490-4355 www.kehilatariel.org Lutz: Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Rabbi Ed Marvin San Diego: Tree of Life Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Rabbi Meets: 24152 SR 54 33559 Serv: Sat 11am (813) 760-3269 www. Arizona Joel Liberman Meets: 11330 Campo Rd (Hwy 94 @ Jamacha Blvd) shoreshdavid.org [email protected] Flagstaff: Beth Yeshua Messianic Congregation-Rabbi Steve Kaplan La Mesa Serv: Sat 10am (619) 656-1168 www.treeoflifeca.org Melbourne: Kol Mashiach Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS/MJAA Please call for meeting location. Serv: Sat 10:30am (928) 527-6818 [email protected] Rabbi Alan Levine Meets: 1621 Lake Washington Rd Serv: Sat 10am www.bethyeshuaflagstaff.com [email protected] San Jacinto: Simchat Yeshua Messianic Congregation-IAMCS (321) 255-2557 www.shalombrevard.com Peoria: Arrowhead Messianic Congregation Rabbi Allan Moorhead Rabbi Brian Bileci Meets: 2585 S San Jacinto Blvd #30 92583 Navarre: Ahm Yisrael Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Rabbi Wayne Meets: 10739 N 75th Ave 85345 Serv: Bible Study Sat 8:30am; Serv: Sat 9am Hebrew Class 10:30am Shabbat Service Leland Meets: 9255 Military Trail 32566 (850) 293-4721 Shabbat Service 10:17am (623)780-9775 www.myamc.org www.simchatyeshua.com [email protected] www.shalomnavarre.com [email protected] [email protected] Santa Ana: Ben David Messianic Jewish Congregation-AMC Ocala: Mishkan Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Rabbi Jerry Keyes Prescott: Ahava B’Shem Yeshua-IAMCS Leader Al Rodriguez Messianic Rabbi Doug Friedman Meets: 651 W Sunflower 92707 Meets: 6675 SE Maricamp Rd Serv: Sat 11am (352) 687-4434 Meets: Alliance Bible Church 2601 W Iron Springs Rd Serv: Sat 10:30am Shabbat School & Hebrew Instruction www.mishkanocala.org [email protected] Serv: Sat 10:30am followed by Oneg (928) 443-5988 (949) 551-2659 www.BenDavidMJC.org Orlando: Congregation Gesher Shalom-IAMCS Rabbi Dr Charles I www.ahavabshemyeshua.com [email protected] Tustin: Adat Hallel Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Congregational Kluge Meets: 6969 Venture Circle Orlando 32807 Serv: Fri 8pm & Leader John Siu Meets: 600 W 6th St Serv: Sat 10:30am (714) 630-6703 Sat 11am (407) 671-4700 www.geshershalom.com California www.myadat.com offi[email protected] Pensacola: Brit Ahm Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Agoura Hills (LA area): Beth Emunah Messianic Synagogue West Covina: Simchat Yeshua Meets: 1100 E Cameron Ave, Room #10 Rabbi Eric Tokajer Meets: 6700 Spanish Trail 32504 Serv: Shabbat Rabbi Steve Stern Meets: 5312 Derry Ave Ste N Serv: Sat 11am Serv: Sat 11am worship prayer schmooze, nosh. Bible study 2pm 10am Tues Study 7pm (850) 484-0900 www.shalompensacola.com followed by oneg, dancing, Shirim Chorale (818) 597-9700 (626) 290-0234 www.simchatyeshua.org [email protected] [email protected] www.bethemunah.org offi[email protected] West Hills (LA Area): Adat Y’shua Ha Adon Michael H Brown Meets: Port St. Lucie/Fort Pierce: Kerem El Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Crestline/Calimesa: Shiloh Messianic Congregation Pastor Bruce Dowell 7475 Fallbrook Ave Serv: Fri 7:30pm & Sat 11am (818) 222-0200 Contact us at (772) 621-7812 www.keremel.org Serv: Fri 7pm & Sun 10am-Crestline; Sat 10am & Tues 7pm-Calimesa www.adatyshua.org [email protected] Riverview: Shoresh David Synagogue of South Bay-IAMCS (909) 338-4846 www.shilohmessianic.com [email protected] Rabbi Ed Marvin Meets: 13498 US 301 S 33579 (813) 831-5673 Fresno: Beth David Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Meets: 4147 E Colorado www.shoreshdavid.org [email protected] Dakota & Cedar Serv: Sat 9am Torah Study 10am (559) 435-0106 Denver: Congregation Roeh Israel Associate Pastor/Rabbi William Tampa: Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Sr. Rabbi Steve www.bethdavidmc.org [email protected] Berg Meets: 8556 E Warren Ave 80231 (303) 337-6254 Weiler Meets: 4320 Bay-to-Bay Blvd Serv: Fri 7:30pm & Sat 11am Fresno: Beit Tefillah Messianic Fellowship-UMJA Rabbi Adam J. Bernay www.roehisrael.com roehisrael@qwestoffice.net (813) 831-LORD www.shoreshdavid.org Meets: 525 E Clinton Ave 93704 Call for Service dates and times Denver: Congregation Yeshuat Tsion Rabbi Chaim Urbach West Palm Beach: L’Chaim Messianic Congregation-C&MA Bruce (559) 906-6297 Meets: 5600 E Belleview Ave Greenwood Village Serv: Sat 10am Elman Congregational Leader Meets: 1815 Forest Hill Blvd 33406 (303) 740-5413 www.yeshuattsion.org Serv: Sat 10:30am (561) 350-6964 www.lchaim.net

Connecticut Georgia West Haven: Congregation Simchat Yisrael-UMJC Rabbi Tony Eaton Roswell: Congregation Beth Hallel-IAMCS Rabbi Kevin Solomon Meets: 870 First Ave 06516 Serv: Bible Study 9:30am; Worship 10:45am. Meets: 950 Pine Grove Rd Serv: Fri 8pm Sat 11am & Tues 7pm (770) Oneg & Talmud following. Children & Youth Programs, Hebrew School 641-3000 www.bethhallel.org (203) 932-9929 www.simchatyisrael.org [email protected] Roswell: Tikvat David Messianic Synagogue-UMJC Rabbi Ryan Lambert Florida Meets: 625 Hembree Parkway 30076 (404) 394-4234 www.tikvatdavid.com [email protected] Brandon: Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue of Brandon, Inc.- Savannah: Keren Ohr Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Messianic Rabbi IAMCS Rabbi Don Goldstein Meets: 445 Lithia Pinecrest Rd 33511 Jude Caracelo Meets: 109 Hwy 80 Bloomingdale 31303 Serv: Sat 10am Serv: Fri 7:30pm (813) 699-4155 www.shoreshdavidbrandon.org (912) 308-8563 www.shalomsavannah.com [email protected] ofﬁ[email protected]

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Thomasville: Beit Shalom Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Rabbi Robert Owings Mills: Am Yeshua Congregation Meets: Upper Room Livingston: Beth Messiah Congregation Rabbi Irving Salzman Ackerman Meets: 1425 ABC E Jackson St 31792 Serv: Sat 11am; Northminster Church, 705 Main St Reisterstown Serv: Sat 10:30am Meets: 15 N Livingston Ave 07039 Serv: Sat 10:30am (973) 994-4431 (229) 228-5004 www.beitshalom.us [email protected] (443) 465-8857 www.amyeshua.com [email protected] www.beth-messiah.org [email protected] Tucker: Congregation Beth Adonai Rabbi Scott Sekulow Meets: 4141 Rockville/Gaithersburg/DC: Beth Messiah Congregation-UMJC Mount Laurel: Hope of Israel Messianic Congregation Pastor Scott Bancroft Circle 30084 (770) 939-1152 www.bethadonai.com Leadership Team Meets: Northgate Community Church, 20300 Affrime Meets: 504 Birchfield Dr 08054 Serv: Sat 10:30am (856) [email protected] Pleasant Ridge Dr, Montgomery Village 20886 Serv: Shabbat 10:30am 779-3787 www.hopeofisraelnj.com hopeofi[email protected] (240) 292-9262 www.bethmessiah.com [email protected] Williamstown: Beth Machaseh Messianic Congregation-Rabbi Hawaii Wheaton: Son of David Congregation Leader Dennis Karp Meets: Emmanuel Tarohocker Meets: 217 Prosser Ave 08094 Serv: Fri 8pm Honolulu: Tikvat Yisrael Rabbi Daniel Klutstein We are Torah observant Wheaton Community Church, 3211 Paul Dr 20902 Serv: Shabbat Sat 11:30am Torah Service (856) 513-6869 www.bethmachaseh.org Meets: 277 Ohua Ave Waikiki Serv: Sat 10:30am-4pm Wed 6-8pm service 10:30 am (240) 342-2403 www.sonofdavid.org [email protected] Bible & Hebrew studies (808) 351-6364 www.TikvatYisrael.com Michigan New York Amherst: Congregation Brith Hadoshah-IAMCS Rabbi Frank Lowinger Illinois Grand Rapids: Adat Eytz Chayim Meets: 5070 Pine Island Dr NE Meets: 50 Alberta Dr 14226 Serv: Sat 9-10am (Shabbat school) Suburban Chicago: Olive Tree Congregation Leader Dan Strull Meets: Comstock Park, MI 49321 Serv: Sat 10:30am (616) 531-7455 Shabbat Service 10:30am (716) 873-8986 www.shalombuffalo.org 400 N Elmhurst Rd Prospect Hts 60070 Serv: Sat 10am; Shabbat School www.adateytzchayim.org Long Island/Plainview: Shuvah Yisrael-IAMCS/UMJC Rabbi David 11:45 (847) 222-1230 www.olive-tree.org [email protected] & Rebbitzen Helene Rosenberg, M.Div. Meets: 88 Southern Parkway Missouri 11803 Serv: Sat 11am live streamed (516) 939-2277 www.Shuvah.com Indiana Branson: The Tabernacle- IAMCS Rabbi Jeremy Storch Meets: Manhattan/Upper Westside: Kehilath HaDerekh Synagogue of the Indianapolis: Congregation Shaarey Yeshua Rabbi Jeffrey A Adler 256 Church Rd 65616 Serv: Fri 7:30pm & Sat 11am (417) 334-7373 Way-MYJM/WMI Reb Benzi HaLevi; Maharat Erika Quintero Meets: Dayspring Assembly of God, 2415 E 72nd St Serv: Fri 7:30pm www.TheTabernacleinBranson.com Meets: 236 W 72nd St New York 10023 Serv: Sat 10am (917) 670-8989 (317) 202-0789 www.shaareyyeshua.org offi[email protected] St. Louis: Beit Chesed Messianic Congregation Leader Jake Rosen www.khdnyc.org [email protected] Meets: 2501 Rockford Ave 63144 Serv: Fri. 7:00-8:30pm (314) 504-8539 Manhattan/Upper Westside: Congregation Sha’ar Adonai-CPM/ Kansas www.beitchesed.com [email protected] UMJC Rabbi Steve Fenchel Meets: 2 West 64th St Serv: Sat 11am Overland Park: Or HaOlam Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Rabbi St. Louis: Beit Tefilah-IAMCS Rabbi Lynn Fineberg Meets: 9801 Olive (212) 223-6751 [email protected] Shmuel Wolkenfeld Meets: 9898 W 95th St Serv: Sat 10am, 1:30pm Blvd at Warson Serv: Sat 11am (314) 994-9884 www.beittefilah.com Syracuse: New Beth Israel-IAMCS Rabbi Jacob Rogers Meets: 601 Torah parasha and other classes (913) 383-8448 www.orhaolam.com [email protected] Irving Ave 13210 Serv: Sat 10am with Oneg at 12pm (315) 425-1400 Wichita: L’Chaim B’Yeshua Elder Hubert Shorb Meets: 1441 E 37th www.newbethisrael.org [email protected] St N 67219 Shabbat Serv: Fri 7pm (316) 295-2366 Montana www.lchaimbyeshua.com [email protected] Florence: Beth Tephila Messianic Jewish Congregation–UMJC North Carolina Congregation Leader Louis Levinson Meets: Lolo Community Asheville: Beth Shiloh Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS/MJAA Louisiana Church 11897 Lewis and Clark Dr, Lolo 59847 Serv: Shabbat 10am Rabbi Andy Meyerson Meets: 1554 Brevard Rd 28806 Serv: Harahan: Adat Yeshua Synagogue-UMJC Leader Grant Burgess www.bethtephila.org [email protected] Every Sat 10am and 1st Fri of each month Erev Shabbat 6:13pm Meets: 1501 Hickory Ave 70123 Serv: Fri 7pm and Sat 10am (844) 493-7482 www.bethshiloh.org [email protected] Cary: Congregation Sha’arei Shalom-UMJC Meets: 700 Old (504) 701-4848 www.adatyeshua.org [email protected] Nebraska Mandeville: Congregation Beth Hallel-IAMCS Rabbi David Schiff Apex Rd Serv: Sat 10am (919) 388-3678 www.entershalom.org Omaha: Adat Hatikvat Tzion-IAMCS Nate Seitelbach Meets: SW Church Serv: Fri 7pm (985) 277-3109 www.LaMessianic.com offi[email protected] of the Nazarene 14808 Q St PO Box 564 68010 Serv: Sat 10am [email protected] Charlotte: Hope of Israel Congregation Rabbi Sam Nadler Meets: (402) 592-2404 www.Adat.org Metairie: Fellowship Beth Hallel-IAMCS Rabbi David Schiff Serv: Sat 11630 Elm Lane 28277 Serv: Sat 10:30am Shabbat School 9:30am 11am(985) 277-3109 www.LaMessianic.com [email protected] (704) 540-7782 www.hopeofisrael.info [email protected] Nevada Drexel (Morgantown): Beth Shiloh Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS/ Maine Las Vegas: Lev HaShem Meets: 3646 N Rancho Dr Serv: Fri 7:30pm MJAA Rabbi Andy Meyerson Meets: 403 N Main St 28619 Serv: Every Sat 10am (844) 493-7482 www.bethshiloh.org [email protected] South Portland: Kehilah Portland-IAMCS Leader Stephen Luft & Sat 10:30am (702) 869-8983 www.levhashem.org Kannapolis: Beit Shofarot Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Rabbi YossiWentz Meets: 1338 Broadway Ave 04106 www.shalommaine.com [email protected] Meets: 1503 S Main St 28081 Serv: Sat 10:30am, Oneg,, classes in after- [email protected] Reno/Sparks: Beth Am Echad Messianic Rabbi Hy Kozak Meets: 1509 Greg St Sparks Warehouse Christian Ministries noon (704) 431-4084 www.beitshofarot.com [email protected] Maryland Serv: Sat 10:30am (775) 356-1096 [email protected] Ohio Baltimore/Owings Mills: Rosh Pina-UMJC/Tikkun Meets: 3408 Walnut Bath: Rosh Pinah Messianic Congregation Rabbi Michael Humphrey Ave Serv: Sat 10:30am (410) 363-4954 www.rosh-pina.com New Jersey Meets: 3891 Ira Rd Serv: Sat 10:30am Yeshiva Wed 7pm [email protected] Fairview: Beth Goyim-CTOMC Rabbi Andrew Dinnerman Meets: 20-26 (330) 668-6840 www.rosh-pinah.org [email protected] Bel Air: Ain M’Chitzah-IAMCS/MJAA Pastor Lyle Dauber Industrial Ave 2nd Floor (elevator available) Serv: Sat 11am Bible study Cincinnati: Beth Messiah Synagogue Rabbi Michael Wolf Meets: Call for location Serv: Sat 10:30am Torah & Hebrew Tues 7pm (973) 338-7800 Live Internet Tues, Thurs & Shabbat, WBGMC Meets: 9054 Columbia Rd Loveland Serv: Fri 8pm & Sat 11am studies (410) 588-5840 [email protected] Internet Radio www.bethgoyim.org [email protected] (513) 683-8817 Fax: (513) 683-8917 www.bethmessiah.net Clarksville/Columbia: Emmanuel Messianic Jewish Congregation- Jackson/Central Jersey: Beth Zion-IAMCS Rabbi Jan & Marlene UMJC Rabbi Barry Rubin Meets: 6120 Day Long Lane Clarksville Rosenberg Meets: 68 Bennetts Mills Rd Jackson Serv: Sat 10:45am Serv: Sat 10am (410) 531-2093 www.godwithus.org (732) 928-7700 www.bethzion.org [email protected]

September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 23 MessianicCongregationalDirectory Cleveland: Tikvat Yisrael Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Rabbi Eric Rhode Island Georgetown: Messiah Echad Messianic Pastor Jonathan Dade David Lakatos Meets: 1370 Richmond Rd 44124 Serv: Sat 10:30am North Smithfield: : Mishkan David Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Meets: 375 County Rd 245 78633 Serv: Sat 3pm (512) 525-0736 (216) 297-9929 www.tikvatcleveland.org [email protected] Rabbi Brian Samuel Meets: 322 Eddie Dowling Hwy Serv: Sat 11am www.messiahechad.org Columbus: Beth Messiah Congregation-UMJC Messianic Rabbi (401) 596-0411 www.mishkandavid.org [email protected] Houston: Congregation Beth Messiah-UMJC Messianic Rabbis Howard Silverman Meets: 4950 Morse Rd 43230 Serv: Sat 10:30am Richard Freeman and Michael Vowell Meets: 9001 W Airport Blvd. www.bethmessiahcolumbus.org offi[email protected] South Carolina 77071 Serv: 9am & 11am (713) 271-5757 www.cbmhouston.org N Canton: The S.I.T.E.-Rabbi Michael J. Oyler Meets: 4120 Martindale Rd Charleston: Beth Shiloh Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS/MJAA Rabbi Katy: Tree of Life Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Rabbi NE 44705 Serv: Sat 10am Shabbat celebration Wed 6pm Davidic/Israeli Andy Meyerson Meets: 1285 Ashley Hall Rd 29407 Serv: Sat 10am Steve Sheek Meets: 541 Pin Oak Rd 77494 (713) 206-2680 Dance (330) 491-7827 www.starineast.org [email protected] (844) 493-7482 www.bethshiloh.org [email protected] www.treeoflifehouston.com info@treeoflifehouston.com Goose Creek: Adat Netzer Matai -UMJC Congregational Leader Ray Midland: Beit HaDerekh Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Oklahoma Hillyer Meets: Hanahan, SC Serv: Sat 10am Call (843) 475-5786 Leader Darrel Reagan Meets: 13370 Hwy 191 79707 for info [email protected] Serv: Sat 10:30am [email protected] Oklahoma City: Rosh Pinah Messianic Jewish Congregation-IAMCS Greenville: Adon Olam Messianic Congregation -IAMCS/MJAA Messianic Rabbi Michael Weygant Meets: 2600 NW 55 Place Cong Leader Todd Lesser Meets: 259 Pine Dr Piedmont 29673 Serv: Sat 10:40am Lunch/Dance/Hebrew Tues Bible Study 7:30pm Virginia Serv: Fri 7:30pm (864) 322-9144 www.adonolam.org (405) 842-1967 www.roshpinah.org [email protected] Chesapeake: Kingdom Life Messianic Congregation Messianic Pastors [email protected] Tulsa: Holiness to the Lord Congregation Pastors Gary & Gloria David and Juanita Weiss Meets: 1280 Bells Mill Rd 23322 Serv: Sat Moore (Spartanburg): Beth Shiloh Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS/MJAA VandeKamp Meets: 7030 S Lewis Ave 74136 Serv: Fri 7pm; Sat 3pm 10:30am (757) 547-7790 www.klmessianic.com [email protected] Rabbi Andy Meyerson Meets: 5762 Reidville Rd 29369 Serv: Sat 10am Hebrew Roots Teaching; Messianic Worship & Dance (918) 408-6689 Fredericksburg: Beth Israel Messianic Jewish Congregation-UMJC (844) 493-7482 www.bethshiloh.org [email protected] www.holinesstothelordcongregation.com [email protected] Congregational Leader Joseph Cabino Meets: 5116 Southpoint Pkwy North Augusta: Congregation Beth Shalom-IAMCS Messianic 22407 (540) 207-8576 www.beth-israel-va.org Pastor Austin Nesbitt Meets: 701 Atomic Rd 29841 Serv: Sat 11am offi[email protected] Pennsylvania Mail: 2307 Neal St 30906 to PO Box 7748 29861 (803) 510-4143 Leesburg: Kehilat Sar Shalom Rabbi Neal Surasky Allentown: Beit Simcha Messianic Fellowship-IAMCS Leader www.congregationbethshalom.org Meets: 908 Trailview Blvd Ste 200 20175 Serv: Sat 10:30am Shabbat Rabbi Glenn Blank Meets: 5042 Schantz Rd Serv: Every Shabat 10am, School Worship Dance (443) 253-0982 www.kehilatsarshalom.org followed by oneg & classes (610) 289-2011 www.beitsimcha.org Tennessee [email protected] Bethlehem: Beth El Gibor-IAMCS/UMJC Rabbi Mark Shulman Meets: Bristol: Ari Yehudah Congregation-IAMCS Rabbi Joseph Bell Newport News: Congregation Zion’s Sake-IAMCS Rabbi Eric Carlson 1555 Linwood St 18917 Serv: Fri Erev Shabbat—call; Sat 10:30 am Meets: 1128 New Hampshire Ave. (VA) 24201 Serv: Sat 10:30am Meets: 1233 Shields Rd 23608 (757) 874-3303 www.zionsake.org 610-504-1083 www.bethelgibor.org [email protected] (276) 644-1678 www.forzionsake.org [email protected] [email protected] Lancaster/Lititz: The Seed Of Abraham Lloyd Elias Scalyer Meets: “The Mill’’ 813 Rothsville Rd Serv: Sat 10:15am (717) 687-8913 Nashville: Kol Dodi Messianic Congregation-IAMCS Rabbi Ken Alpren www.messiahpa.org [email protected] Meets: 1710 Woodmount Blvd 37215 (Green Hills Area) Washington Philadelphia: Congregation Beth Emanuel-IAMCS Rabbi David Vazquez Serv: Shabbat 11am Offering Shabbat School, Yeshiva Classes Centralia/Chehalis: Chesed v’Shalom Ministries Rabbi James Pace Meets: 10150 Bustleton Ave 19116 Serv: Fri Erev Shabbat 8pm; Bible (615) 973-6933 www.koldodi.org Meets: 1209 N Scheuber Rd Centralia Serv: Sat 11am Oneg lunch Study 11am 2nd & 4th Sat of the month; Prayer Tues 7pm; Spanish following service (360) 508-8437 www.cvsm.us Shabbat Sat 3pm (215) 969-4569 www.bethemanuel.org Texas Newcastle: Beit Tikvah-IAMCS/Foursquare Rabbi Hylan Slobodkin [email protected] Arlington: Sukkat Shalom–A Torah-Observant Congregation Meets: 7935-136th Ave SE Serv: Sat 10:30am (425) 793-3000 Philadelphia: Congregation Beth Yeshua-IAMCS Sr Messianic Rabbi Meets: Eunice Activity Center, 100 Eunice St 76010 Serv: Sat 12 www.beittikvah.us offi[email protected] David Chernoff Meets: 7501 Haverford Ave 19151 Serv: Fri 8pm & Sat noon Dairy Oneg follows. Hebrew & Bar/Bat Mitzvah programs 11am Prayer Wed 7:30pm (215) 477-2706 www.cby.org [email protected] for adults & children (972) 623-2863 (817) 917-7587 Port Orchard: Beth El Messianic Congregation Elder Darrell Estep Pittsburgh: Maoz Tzur–Rock of Ages Messianic Jewish Congregation www.sukkatshalom.us Meets: 2095 SE Cedar Rd 98366 (360) 876-5581 Serv: Sat 11am Abraham E Sandler II Meets: N Hills Alliance Church 2298 Rochester Dallas: Adat Shalom Messianic Congregation Leader Robin D Torah study and P&W service www.bethelportorchardwa.com Rd 15237 Serv: Fri 7:30pm (412) 609-1117 www.rockofagesmjc.org Rose Meets: Park Central Baptist Church 7777 LBJ Freeway 75251 [email protected] Yardle y : Kehilat Ari Yehudah/Congregation Lion of Judah-IAMCS Serv: Fri 7:30pm Educational Classes Wed 7pm (972) 271-4976 Port Orchard: Beth Yeshua-A Messianic Torah Congregation Congregational Leader Peggy Michalchuk Meets: Yardley Cmty Ctr 64 www.adatshalom-dallas.org [email protected] Meets: New Heart Church, 4239 W Pleasant St 98367 S Main St Serv: Sat 10am (215) 493-4460 www.lojpa.org Dallas: Baruch HaShem Synagogue Rabbi Marty Waldman Serv: Sat 11:30am (877) 779-1790 www.bethyeshuagigharbor.org Meets: 6304 Belt Line Rd Serv: Sat 10:40am (972) 386-0121 Vancouver: Rehoboth Messianic Congregation Rabbi David Sumner www.BaruchHaShemSynagogue.org offi[email protected] Meets: 3504 NE 49th St 98661 Serv: Fri 7pm, Sat 10:30am & 2pm; Dallas: Eitz Chaim-MJAA Rabbi David Schiller Meets: 650 W Campell Rd Wed Torah Study 7pm (360) 695-2900 75080 Serv: Sat 10:30am Wed Prayer 6:30pm (972) 231-3884 www.rehoboth-messianic.org www.eitz-chaim.org [email protected] [email protected] Dallas: Shalom, Shalom Messianic Congregation Leader Sedro Woolley: Northwest Messianic Fellowship Pastor James Bethea Dr. Todd Baker Meets: Northwest Bible Church 8505 Douglas Ave Meets: 11458 Panorama Dr 98284 Serv: Sat 11am Davidic worship, (Christian Life Center Room 302-303) Serv: Fri 7pm (214)356- Torah service and Oneg following (360) 708-1457 2583 Radio shows: www.brit-hadasha.org [email protected] www.northwestmessianicfellowship.org Duncanville: Bat Zion Messianic Congregation Leader Steven [email protected] Jaslow Meets: 730 N Cedar Ridge Rd Serv: Sat 10:40am (972) 709-8761 www.bat-zion.org [email protected] West Virginia Ripley: Beth Israel-UMJA Leader Hal Workman Meets: 130 W Main St Serv: Shabbt Shachorit 11am & 6pm-Winter; 7pm-Summer (304) 373-5955 www.messianicmanna.com [email protected]

Wisconsin Milwaukee: Beth Messiah-Milwaukee-IAMCS Rabbi Frank Susler Meets: 9900 W Capitol Dr Serv: Sat 10am (414) 464-9782

24 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 MessianicCongregationalDirectory Modi’in: Kehilat Modi’in Interim Pastor Ray Pritz Shabbat 10:30am Belarus & mid-week meetings Ph: 972 (2) 534-3882 Minsk: Brit Chadasha-IAMCS PO Box 66 220012 Ph: 375 172 13 10 59 [email protected] Fax: 375 172 54 16 96 Canada Netanya: Beit Asaph Leaders Evan Thomas, David Loden & Lev Guler Serv: Sat 10:30am Hebrew with English/Russian translations Belgium Alberta Ph: 972 (9) 885-0029 www.beit-asaph.org.il Hainaut: Beth Yeshoua Rabbi Lorenzo Grecco Shabbat Serv: Sat 3pm Poriya Illit: Kehilat Poriya Founding Elder Eric Morey Meets: Mail: 219 Rue de Baume, 7100 La Louvière. Serving Yeshua since 1987. Calgary: Beth Shechinah Meets: 2635-32nd St SW Serv: Sat 10:30am Derech Tabor #39, Lower Galilee 15208 Serv: Sat 10am & last Fri Ph. 32 (2) 344-7951 [email protected] www.bethyeshoua.org (403) 256-3478 or (403) 685-4170 www.bethshechinah.com each month at 3:30pm for “Erev Shabbat” and Oneg following Brussels: Messianic Centre of Brussels Rabbi Paul Ghennassia Shabbat [email protected] (052) 7372-888 or (972) 4-6709-208 [email protected] & holiday services outreach ministry Ph: 32 (2) 344-7951 Lethbridge: Beit Tefillah Sameach (Joyful House of Prayer) [email protected] Congregational Leaders Sidney and Linda Speakman Rishon L’Tzion: Grace and Truth Christian Congregation Meets: Brazil Meets: 336 13th St N Serv: Sat11am (403) 634-8200 Rechov Shmotkin 8 Old Industrial zone of Rishon L’Tzion Belo Horizonte: Congregação Judaico-Messiânica Har Tzion-UMJC kehilatbeittefi[email protected] Serv: Sat 10:00am Ph/Fax: 972 (3) 966-1898 Rabbi Marcelo Miranda Rua Funchal 185 Bairro Ouro Preto 31310 British Columbia [email protected] 440 Ph: 55 (31) 3498-1761 www.ensinandodesiao.org.br Tel-Aviv: Adonai Roi Avi Mizrachi Meets: Beit Immanuel, 8 Auerbach St Rio De Janeiro: Congregação Judaico-Messiânica Beit Tefilat Yeshua Greater Vancouver/Fraser Valley: Shabbat Shel Shalom Messianic (off Eliat St) Serv: Sat 11:00am 972 (3) 621-2100 Dugit Center 1 Ben Eduardo Stein Maroniene Shabbat Serv: Friday 7:30pm Saturday Fellowship Lead Pastors Rev Murray & Marta Archibald-Fisher Yehuda St Mon–Thurs noon to 7pm www.dugit.org 9am Ph: 55 (21) 252-71368 judaismomessianico.com.br Meets: Columbia Bible College 2940 Clearbook Rd Abbotsford dugit@zahav.net.il Sao Paulo: Beit Mashiach Leader Gilberto Branco Meets: Rua Joaquim Serv: Sat 2pm (604)996-8722 [email protected] Tel Aviv: Brit Olam Fellowship 22 Ben Atar St PO Box 5023 61050 Murtinho 252- Bom Retiro Serv: Fri Kabalat Shabat 19:30 Torah www.shabbat-shel-shalom-messianic-fellowship.webs.com Serv: Sat 10am Hebrew with English translation Ph: 972 (3) 527-2845 Service Sat 10am Ph: 55 (11) 3312-0176 www.beitmashiach.org Vancouver: Kehillath Tsion Leader Elie Nessim Meets: 3833 Boundary [email protected] Rd V5R 2M4 Serv: Sat 10:30am (604) 321-ZION www.zmf.org Tel-Aviv: Kehilat Simchat Yeshua Michael Zinn Meets: 5 Brenner St Czech Republic [email protected] Serv: Sat 11am Ph: 972 (2) 563-2005 Pilsen: Chajim-Chadashim-IAMCS Meets: Radynska 35 32600 Messianic Pastor Jaroslav Kupka [email protected] Nova Scotia Tel-Aviv: Tiferet Yeshua Gil Afriat, Apostolic Overseer Asher Intrater Meets: 38 Yitzhak Sade St. Serv: Fri 4 pm www.tiferetyeshua.org [email protected] Halifax/Dartmouth: Congregation Ner Tamid-CTOMC Tiberias: Kehilat Peniel Daniel Yahav Serv: Sat 11am Ph: 972 (4) 670-8705 Rabbi Avner Solomon Serv: Sat 10:45am Call for directions Costa Rica Tiberias: Morning Star Fellowship Contact Claude for information at: (902) 479-7479 www.nertamid.ca [email protected] Liberia: Congregation Messianic de Yeshua HaMashiah-Leader [email protected] Enrique Gineres Meets: Sat 10am—Meeting location varies— Ontario Call for location Ph: (760) 401-6501 (USA) or 011-506-8302-2806 Nepean: Shekinah Messianic Congregation Rabbi Marvin Pressman Argentina Meets: 30 McEwen Ave. Apt 510, Ottawa K2B 5K8 (613) 617-8641 Buenos Aires: Beit Sar Shalom Rabbi Ricardo Chemi El Salvador www.shekinahmessianic.com [email protected] Meets: Sarmiento 3726 & 3730 Serv: Fri 7pm Kabalat Shabat & Sat San Salvador: B’nei Israel-IAMCS Rabbi Jorge Isaias Ascencio Ottawa: Ottawa Messianic Congregation Meets: 1376 Bank St Unit 211 6pm Havdala Ph: 54 (11) 4865-3567 www.beitsarshalom.org.ar Meets: Residencial Monte Bello, Calle Monte Cristo #4B Serv: Fri 7:30pm Sat 3:30pm Bible Study www.ottawamessianic.com Ph.and Fax: 503-2274-9032 [email protected] Thornhill: City of David-IAMCS Rabbi Jeffrey Forman Meets: Australia Finland Gates of Zion Centre 7775 Yonge St Serv: Fri 7:45pm & Sat 11am Bondi Beach: Immanuel Messianic Fellowship Rev Moshe Elijah Helsinki: Shorashim Fellowship-IAMCS Leader Bela Halasz (905) 761-8118 www.cityofdavid.com Meets: Sat & Sun Rock of Truth Ministry Box 7119 Bondi Beach Annankatu 1 Ph + 358-40-5116 891 [email protected] Toronto: Congregation Melech Yisrael-IAMCS Rabbi Yehezquel NSW 2026 Ph: 61 (2) 9130-7988 www.rockoftruthministry.com Malinconico Meets: 272 Ranee Ave Serv: Fri 7:30pm & Sat 11am Bible [email protected] France Study Mon 7pm (416) 785-7612 www.cmy.on.ca offi[email protected] Bondi Junction: Beth Messiah Bob Mendelsohn Meets: 576 Oxford Marseille: Gan-Eden Congregation-IAMCS David Cohen St Bondi Junction Sydney NSW Serv: Sat 10am Ph: 61(2) 9388-0559 Meets: 11 rue Delille 13001 Ph: 00-33-4-91-90-85-40 Quebec www.jewsforjesus.org.au [email protected] www.gan-eden.over-blog.com Montreal: Beth Ariel Congregation-AMC Rabbi J. Isaac Gabizon Caulfield South: Beth HaMashiach-IAMCS Rabbi Lawrence Hirsch Meets: [email protected] Meets: 6297 Monkland Blvd Serv: Sat 11 am Children’s program, Hebrew 206 Bambra Rd South Caulfield Serv: Sat 10:30am Ph: 61 (3) 9563-5544 Paris: El Beth El-IAMCS Emmanuel Rodriguez-Perez Meets: 1 Rue lessons & Messianic Dance (514) 685-5902 www.bethariel.ca Melbourne: Celebrate Messiah Australia Director Lawrence Hirsch Omer Talon Serv: Sat 4pm & Tues 7pm Ph: 33 (14) 805-8973 PO Box 304 Caulfield South Victoria 3162 Ph: 61 (3) 9563-5544 www.celebratemessiah.com.au Germany [email protected] Berlin: Beit Sar Shalom-CPM Rabbi Vladimir Pikman Shabbat International Sydney: Agudat Bris Director Covenant Fellowship Elder Maurie meetings & Bible studies Ph: 49(30) 3083-8130 Hollman Mail: 44 Mosaic Ave, The Ponds NSW 2769 Ph: offi[email protected] 61-408426944 www.agudatbris.com.au [email protected] Israel Tweed Heads Region: The International Messianic Community of Great Britain Ariel: Kehilat Ariel Ph: 972 (3) 936-4771 [email protected] Faith IMCF Rebbe Dr Les Aron Gosling Yeshiva Meets: Shabbat at Bristol: Shaqad Mr. John Mott & Steve Chappell Meets: 52 Cam Be’er Sheva: Kehilat Nachalat Yeshua Leader Howard Bass Meets: Pottsville NSW 2489 Contact: PO Box 6523 Tweed Heads S 2486 Green Ashmead Hall Cam Dursley S Gloucestershire GL 115HN 15 HaAvot St Bible study/prayer Ph: 972 (8) 627-7022 Fax: 627-7936 Ph: 61(2) 6676-3969 [email protected] Ph: 44 01453 860116 www.streamsinthenegev.com songfi[email protected] Eilat: Kehilat Eilat PO Box 501 88104 Ph: 972 (8) 637-2859 Haifa: Kehilat HaCarmel Mail: PO Box 7004 Haifa 31070 Serv: Sat 11am [email protected] Haifa: Kehilat Kerem El Meets:122 HaTishbi St Serv: Sat 5–7pm (Hebrew only) offi[email protected] Ph: +972-77-535-5754 Haifa: Return to Zion Leader Leon Mazin Meets: 11 Tel Aviv St. Serv: Sat 11am Ph: 972 (0) 50-2010-261 www.shaveitzion.org [email protected] Jaffa: Kehilat Beit Immanuel Leader David Lazarus Meets: 8 Auerbach St Serv: Fri 6:30pm Hebrew w/Eng/Russian translations Ph: 972 (3) 682-1459 [email protected] www.beitimmanuel.org Jerusalem: Jerusalem Assembly House of Redemption 972 (2) 583-4949 Jerusalem: Kehilat El Roii Ofer Amitai-Pastor Meets: Prayer Tower, Jaffa St 97. 14th Floor Serv: Sat 5pm [email protected] Jerusalem: Kehilat Even Yisrael Nikoli Lemeshkin Meets: Baptist House Center 4 Narkis St. Serv: Fri. 5:30pm Russian speaking/translations available. Ph. 972 (2) 651-1536 Jerusalem: Kehilat Kol BaMidbar Meets: 32 Shivtei Yisrael Serv: Sat & Wed 7pm Ph: 972 (5) 428-2803 www.voice-wilderness.com [email protected] Jerusalem: Narkis Street Congregation-Foursquare Pastor Chuck Kopp Meets: 4 Narkis St 91001 Serv: Sat Bible Study 9:40am Worship 10:45am Wed Prayer Meeting 6pm Ph: 972 (2) 623-1680 www.narkis.org [email protected] Jerusalem: Shemen Sasson John Myers Senior Pastor Meets: downtown Jerusalem Serv: Sat evening Ph: 972 (2) 623-5155 www.shemensasson.com Karmiel: Kehilat HaDerech PO Box 502 Karmiel 2161404 Serv: Sat 10:30am Ph: 972 (4) 988-5916 offi[email protected] Karmiel: Rivers of Living Water Shabbat Serv: Sat 11am study Tues 7pm Ph: 972 (4) 998-1374 [email protected] Kfar Saba: Kehilat Ha Ma’ayan Leader Tony Sperandeo PO Box 827 Kfar Saba 44108 Serv: Sat 11am Ph: 972 (9) 766-2351 Fax: 766-2350 www.kehilat-hamaayan.org.il Kiryat Yam: Ohalei Rachamim (Tents of Mercy) PO Box 1018 Kiryat Yam 29109 Ph: 972 (4) 877-7921 [email protected]

September/October 2017 The Messianic Times 25 MessianicCongregationalDirectory Eastbourne: Mayim Chayim Messianic Congregation Leader Brian Romania North Carolina Bailey Meets: 8 Saffrons Rd (Old Orchard Rd entrance) Serv: Sat Oradea: The Messianic Jewish Community Rabbi David Nagy Asheville: Sunnyside Missionary Church Pastor Neal Adams 1pm Ph: 44 01323 724065 www.mayimchayim.moonfruit.com Ph: 40 0740 816 620 www.mesianic.ro [email protected] Leicester: Teshuvah Messianic Synagogue Rabbi Dr Yehoshua Scott Secretary-Treasurer [email protected] Serv: Sat 10:30am & mid-week prayer and study Ph: 44 (116) Spain 212-7990 www.teshuvah.org.uk [email protected] Madrid: Community Shema Sefarad Rabbi Mijael Sofer South Dakota London: Beit Nitzachon-BMJA Elder Lionel Zucker Ph: (676) 04 05 61 www.shemasefarad.org Sioux Falls: Christ Community Ministries Contact: Bernie Schock Meets: Stamford Hill United Church, Portland Ave Stamford Toledo: Shalom Sefarad Samuel del Coso Roman +34.925.357618 (605)371-1889 Hill NI6 6SB Serv: Sat 11am Ph:(44)020-8986-2000 +34.659. 682031 www.shalomsefarad.com For information contact Deaconess Bernice Allen [email protected] London: Beit Sar Shalom-Meets: 54 Bridge Lane, Golders Green, Texas NW11 0EH Serv: Sat 10:30am Ph: 0788 632-4869 Brownsville: Free Lutheran Fellowship Church Pastor Joseph Uganda O’Bell Meets: Motel 6 North Conference Center Serv: Sun 10am www.beitsarshalom.org.uk Mhale: Yeshua Messianic Synagogue-IAMCS Rabbi Solomon W (956) 546-7374 Manchester: Sulam Ya’aqov Messianic Fellowship-BMJA Isabirye Cong of Abayudaya Jewish Believer. Contact rabbi for El Paso: Freedom Fellowship Pastor Victor Franco Meets: 1404 N Pastor John E. Young. PO Box 5, Droylsden M43 6EL location & times Ph: 256-773-459325 [email protected] Contact: 0161-371-1877 [email protected] Zaragosa 79936 (915) 355-7046 www.freedomfellowshipep.com Norwich: Adat Yeshua-UBMS Rabbi Binyamin Sheldrake [email protected] Ukraine El Paso: Grace Christian Center Pastor Bobby Garcia Meets: 820 N Serv: Sat 10:30am also mid-wk prayer 44 (160) 346-4367 Crimea: Hava Nagila Chernomorsk-IAMCS Rabbi Viktor Yurievich Raynor 79903 Serv: Sun 10am English. 12 pm Spanish; Wed 7pm; www.adatyeshua.co.uk [email protected] Vilenskiy Meets: Café ‘Akkord’, Revolucii street, 8/1 Serv: Sat 3 pm Fri 7pm Prayer (915) 544-7400 www.gracechristianept.org Nottingham: Beit Shalom Peter Avallone Ph: 44 (115) 929-7112 Ph: +380679117045 [email protected] [email protected] www.restoreallisrael.com [email protected] Crimea: Hava Nagila Kerch-IAMCS Rabbi Pavel Eduardovich Fabens: Shalom Christian Church Pastor Victor Franco Sunderland: Beit Yeshua Laurence Levine Mail: 30 Gatwick Koshelev Meets: Kazakova str. 44/1 Kerch 98306 Ph: (915) 764-4464 www.sccfabens.org Rd Grindon Sunderland SR4 9QH Ph: 44 (191) 534-3786 Ph: +380677733365 [email protected] [email protected] www.beityeshua.org.uk [email protected] Crimea: Hava Nagila Pheodosia-IAMCS Rabbi Alexandr Southlake: Gateway Church Jewish Ministry Executive Pastor Wayne Surrey: Zera Avraham Messianic Synagogue-UBMS/UEMS Viktorovich Stanchevsky Meets: Zapadnaya str. 21/2 Wilks Jr. Meets: 700 Blessed Way 76092 Serv: 1st Fri each month Rabbi Boaz Sabey Meets: 108-112 Chipstead Valley Rd Pheodosia Ph: +380962342698 http://hala.crimea.ua For more information, visit www.jewish.gatewaypeople.com Coulsdon CR5 3BA Ph: +447919043179 Serv: Shabbat [email protected] 10:30am www.zeraavraham.org [email protected] Crimea: Hava Nagila Sevastopol-IAMCS Meets: Vosstavshih square 6 Sevastopol Ph: +380679117045 http://hala.crimea.ua Ireland [email protected] CANADA Newtownards, Down: K’hilat Shalom Mashichit (Shalom Crimea: Hava Nagila Simferopol-IAMCS Rabbi Dmitry Messianic Congregation) Your Messianic link in Ireland. Vladimirovich Tjulin Meets: Sevastopolskaka tr. 54 Simferopol Alberta Leader Jim Clint Meets: Every alternate Shabbat. Hebraic Ph: +380656951727 http://hala.crimea.ua [email protected] Manning: Manning Family Worship Centre Lead Pastor Cory Worship. [email protected] Crimea: Hava Nagila Yalta-IAMCS Rabbi Ruslan Urievish Taranenko Rosenfeldt Meets: 201 6th Ave SW T0H 2M0 (780) 836-3412 Meets: Dzerzinskogo Ph: +380679117045 http://hala.crimea.ua www.manningchurch.ca Kyrgyzstan [email protected] Bishkek: Beit Yeshua Alexander Rossinskiy Serv: Sat 16:00 Mail: PO Crimea: Hava Nagila Yevpatoriya-IAMCS Rabbi Viktor Yurievih Box 642 Bishkek 720001 Ph: 996 (312) 620-248 [email protected] Vilenskiy Meets: International st. 138 c. Yevpatoriya 97403 INTERNATIONAL Ph: 8 (06569) 5-17-27 [email protected] Mexico Crimea: Jewish Messianic Congregation Mazl Tov-IAMCS El Salvador Guadalajara: Yeshua Ben David-IAMCS Rabino Manuel Rabbi Natalia Kimovna Kuchuhidze Meets: Index 97491 str. San Salvador: Adat Shalem Congregation Pastor Rodolfo Olivares Hernández Apartado Postal 5-455 Guadalajara Jalisco 45000 Molodiojnaja 1 apt 53 Novoozjornoe 97491 Ph: +380646946709 Ph: 503 (2) 286-0233 [email protected] Ph: 52 (33) 3642-6535 [email protected] Dniprodzerzhinsk: Messiah-IAMCS Pastor Vladimir Zaitsev Meets: Kirova 3 Ph: +38095-460-55-03 www.encounter-with-god.org.ua Netherlands France Hmelmitsky: Hava Nagila Kamenec-Podolskiy-IAMCS Toulouse: Eglise Evangelique de Montaudran (LAMPE) Amersfoort, Utrecht: Messianic Fellowship Benee Awraham-MP Rabbi Jacub Juriy Vladimirovich Meets: Schevchenko str.41 Pastor Roy Reese Ph: 33 (561) 998-042 Coordinator Anton de Ruiter Meets: Evangelische Hogeschool Ph: +3809664888207 [email protected] Drentsestraat 1Serv: 2nd & 4th Shabbat & Biblical Feasts Mail: Kherson: Hava Nagila Herson-IAMCS Rabbi Viktor Yurievich Singapore Oud Veldzichtlaan 24, 7322 HT Apeldoorn, Ph.+31-(0)-55-360-5486 Vilenskiy Meets: Palace of Youth and Students, Shevchenco Square Jews for Jesus (Singapore Chapter): Ph: 65-9665-7734 www.benee-awraham.nl [email protected] Serv: Sat 5pm Ph: +380679117045 [email protected] [email protected] Amsterdam: Beth Yeshua Messianic Jewish Congregation Kiev: Ner haShem Kiev-IAMCS Congregational Leader Andrei Lion and Elze Erwteman Meets: Veluwelaan 20 Serv: Denukov Ph: +380678045913 [email protected] Sat 11:30am Ph: +31 (20) 890-6950 www.beth-yeshua.nl Nikolaev: Jewish Messianic Religious Congregation-IAMCS [email protected] Rabbi Yuri Borisovich Korshum Meets: Schevchenko Str. 71 Amsterdam, Noord Holland: Shiloach Messianic Fellowship- Ph: 8 (063) 226-21-65 http://jmcnikolaev-en.blogspot.com IAMCS/MP Congregational Leader David Warnink Meets: Odessa: Gateway to Zion-Congregation of Odessa-IAMCS We Mourn ‘Keerpunt’, Arent Janszoon Ernststraat 302, Amsterdam-Buitenveldert Sr Rabbi David Schneier & Rabbi Alexander Popazov On Friday, August 4, 2017, Mail: Steenderenstraat 49, 1107 LB Amsterdam Ph. (0)-20-609-0936 Meets: Prohorivska St, 20 Apt 13-A 65005 Ph: (048) 7111495 www.shiloach.nl [email protected] US mail address: 414 N Guillemard St Pensacola, FL 32501 Bernard Rubinstein, 77, of Apeldoorn, Gelderland: Messianic Platform (Dutch Alliance of Messianic www.gatesofzion.od.ua [email protected] Washington, DC, passed after a Congregations & House Groups) Coordinators Anton de Ruiter & Pervomaysk: Jewish Messianic Religious Congregation-IAMCS long battle with multiple sclerosis. Jochanan Castelijn Meets: Oud Veldzichtlaan 24, Ph. +31-(0)-55-360-5486 Rabbi Oleg Leonidovich Sulima Dzerjinskogo 6 str 55200 Bernie was the son of Samuel and www.messianicplatform.nl [email protected] Ph: +380638929750 http://ervomajsk-3n.blogspot.com Lillian Rubinstein. He attended Den Haag, Zuid Holland: Messianic Congregation Lama’an Tsion Zhitomir: Kehilat Brit-IAMCS Rabbi Sergey Pinchuk Meets: Gagarina str. Amidon Elementary, Jefferson -MP Elder Jochanan Castelijn Meets: Noorderkerk, Schuytstraat Ph: +34 1002 +380412341769 [email protected] 9-11 Mail: Nieuwe Havendwarsstraat 56, 2511 ZC Den Haag Junior High School, Coolidge Ph. +33-(0)-61-915-2146 [email protected] Uruguay High School and Howard University, working toward a Drachten, Friesland: Messianic Congregation Mayaan Yeshua-MP Montevideo: Adat HaMashiach-IAMCS Messianic Pastor Ubaldo degree in Business. He was a clothier with the Cambridge Elder Gerard J Wijtsma Meets: De Brede School De Drait, Flevo Bas Meets: Carlos de la vega 4724/300 11900 Ph: 598-99-474-932 Shop, Lewis and Dan Brown and S. Kleins. He later became 186-194, 0204 JT Drachten www.mayaan.nl www.mesianicaadat.org [email protected] a jeweler for 26 years at Lynn Jewelers of Washington, New Zealand DC. He retired in 1995 due to his medical condition. His Venezuela favorite moments involved music and singing, solving Auckland: Bet Ya’akov Elder Richard Green Serv: Sat Call for more Caracas: Bet El Shadai www.betelshadai.org information 64 (21) 119-9609 [email protected] crossword puzzles and studying the Bible. Bernie was also Auckland: Talmidei Yeshua Messianic Kehilah Nasi (Pres) Graeme Zambia a Yiddish scholar and taught Bar Mitzvah lessons with Purdie PO Box 44-118, Auckland 1246 Meets: Sat 10:30am Lusaka: Zambia Messianic Fellowship-IAMCS perfection to his students. He was also the first known Ph: (09)846-8618 www.messianic.org.nz [email protected] Rabbi Alex Yalenga Meets: Plot 34285 Shantumbu Rd, Cantor in the Messianic Movement. He frequently led Mt. Cook, Wellington: Bet Tikkun–The House of Restoration Leaders Rockfield Serv: Sat 10:30am 260 (21) 123-4791/260 (97) 785-8061 liturgy at the early Messiah conferences, being the cantor st rd Dr. Jen and Dr. Roger Lang Meets: 61 Hopper St Serv: 1 , 3 www.zamf.org [email protected] at Beth Messiah Synagogue in the Washington, D.C. area. and 5th Sat each month Ph: +642-743-16230 www.bettikkun.com [email protected] Bernie is survived by his wife of 50 years, Vivian. The two of them just celebrated their golden anniversary Paraguay during this year’s conference. He is also survived by Asuncion: Beit Shalom Messianic Renewed Synagogue Julio Dam ChurcheswholoveIsrael goddaughter, Jaffa; and step-children, Nicole and Rick. Ph: 595-21-606-608 www.beitshalom.org [email protected] He is also survived by his sister, Bella Smith (Jerome); sister-in-law, Thelma Rubinstein; sister-in-law, Diana Peru Lynn (Fred Lipschultz); and a host of nieces and nephews. Lima: Bejatzrot Yeshua-IAMCS Manuel Zelaya 449 Urb. Pamplona UNITED STATES Baja 29 Rabbi Enrique Huaman Ph/Fax: 00-511-276-7759 He was predeceased by his brothers, Arthur and Phillip [email protected] California Rubinstein. San Diego/La Mesa: Skyline Church and Schindler’s Ark Funeral services were held on Tuesday, August 8, Republic of Panama Pastors Jim Garlow and Rosemary Schindler Garlow 2017 at Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home in Silver Spring, Panama City: Sinagoga Judio Mesianica Bet Yeshua Rabino Ricardo Meets: 11330 Campo Road 91941 (Hwy 94 at Jamacha Rd) MD. Interment followed at Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Kraus Serv: Fri 7:30pm & Sat 10am Yeshiva 1pm Edificio Tikal Serv: Sun 8:30 & 10:30am & 6pm www.skylinechurch.org Adelphi, MD. via transist mica Ph: 507-261-9875 [email protected] www.skylinechurch.org/treeoflife

26 The Messianic Times September/October 2017 HolyDays

Recipes for Holiday Memories Compiled by Grace Sussman

June’s Rice, Fruit and Pecan Stufﬁng Stufﬁng That Brings Smiles Andrew Ketel of Beit Mashiach Congregation in Edmonton, Alberta, Ingredients: ½ cup pecan halves 2 tbsps olive oil Canada is gluten intolerant and cannot have traditional bread 1 small onion minced ½ cup celery 1 cup long-grain rice stuffing. So his wife June had to come up with an alternative 1 ½ cup chicken stock ½ cup orange juice 1 tsp grated orange zest recipe. She serves this rice and fruit stuffing as a side dish, 1 small apple ¼ cup raisins ¼ cup cinnamon for the holidays, salt and pepper with or without the bird. Her Directions: Preheat the oven to 400º and toast pecans lightly for five minutes. Cool and cut in half. family and Heat the oil, and add onion and celery. Sauté for about five minutes. Add the rice and sauté an additional congregation two minutes. Add stock, orange juice, salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Cover and cook on low heat for call it a “blue- about 15 minutes. Core apple. Cut it into pieces and add to the rice mixture. Add the raisins and simmer ribbon winner.” another five minutes. Stir in cinnamon, orange zest, and pecans.

Bonnie’s Chicken Soup 1 whole roasting chicken (4–5 lbs), thoroughly cleaned 7 quarts of water 1/2 of a large or one small raw beet Homemade Chicken Soup 2 large onions 2–4 large carrots, cut in pieces 3 celery stalks cut in pieces 2 large parsnips One way to “beet” the ﬂu fresh dill (small bunch) fresh parsley (medium-sized bunch) is with Bonnie Friedman’s salt and pepper to taste 1/2 cup pearl barley (optional) version of Jewish penicillin— homemade chicken soup with fresh beets added. Place cleaned chicken (gizzards removed) in a large soup pot. Add water along with onions, Bonnie is the wife of celery, parsnips, and barley. After bringing to a boil, immediately turn down the heat to a low flame. Simmer for Messianic Rabbi Doug one hour, then add carrots, beet, parsley, and dill while keeping the soup on a low simmer. Continue to cook for an Friedman, leader of Ben additional hour or longer until the chicken is soft and easily separates from the bone. Let the chicken cool in the pot as David Messianic Jewish this deepens the soup’s flavor. When thoroughly cooked, lift the chicken out of the pot and place in a bowl. Strain the Congregation in Santa Ana, California. She adapted this recipe from her soup from all the vegetables. Place the broth into the refrigerator to cool until the fat congeals on the surface. Remove mother-in-law, Naomi, guardian of the family’s recipes. Bonnie lovingly the fat and discard. Return the broth into a clean soup pot. Add pieces of chicken, chunks of carrot and heat for serving. ministers to the sick in the congregation by delivering this delightful Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve the soup hot with soft matzah balls. concoction to them.

Rugalach* Ingredients: à la Sylvia Pastry Dough Rugelach— 1 cup sweet margarine (2 sticks) 2+ cups unsifted flour* It's what's for dessert 1 egg yolk (save the white) Here is June Levine’s rugelach recipe from her mother. In June’s family she ¾ cup sour cream only ate three kinds of cakes or cookies: rugelach, mandelbread, and a sour cream coffee cake. Directions: Filling: “I never knew there Cut margarine into flour. Blend in egg yolk and sour cream. Knead enough ¾ cup golden raisins were any other kinds to shape into a ball (very sticky, try a spoon). Chill for two hours or until firm. ½ cup sugar of desserts,” June After two hours, cut the ball of dough into three equal pieces. Roll each into a 2 tsps cinnamon recalls. “Those three circle, 1/8'' thick, on a floured board. Work with only one at a time. If the dough ½ cup chopped walnuts desserts worked for is sticky, add more flour as needed.* Mix the filling ingredients in a bowl. all gatherings and Sprinkle some of the mixture over one of the circles. Cut each circle into a 12 * rugelach are small rolled holidays. Even pie-shaped piece (think of a clock). Starting at the wide end, roll up each piece pastries of Ashkenazic origin, Thanksgiving! I never of dough forming a crescent. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Brush with meaning “little twists” even tasted pumpkin pie egg white. Bake at 375º for 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Yields 3 dozen. in Yiddish until I was an adult.”

Evelyn’s Chopped Liver Vive le Chopped Liver! Ingredients: 2 lbs of chicken livers 3 eggs 2 medium yellow onions 2 cloves garlic salt, pepper Leave it to the French to transform basic chopped liver intoo 1 cup of water 3–5 sprigs fresh parsley 3 tbsps schmaltz (rendered chicken fat, but butter will do) ¼ cup cognac a gourmet holiday treat! Olivier Melnick, who works foror Chosen People Ministries, is happy to share his motherer Directions: Cut excess fat from the chicken livers. Rinse thoroughly before setting them aside in a bowl. Hard boil 3 eggs, Evelyn’s family recipe. Evelyn resides in Paris, France,e, peel them and set aside. Chop the garlic and parsley fine; set aside. Quarter the onions and cut them in long strips. Place which explains the élégance of this traditional food. one tablespoon of schmaltz or butter in a large skillet and caramelize the onions over medium high. Add a pinch of salt and pepper. Watch and toss, or they will burn. Add a few teaspoons of water regularly throughout the sautéing to keep moist. Once the onions are soft and dark golden brown, set aside. Do not rinse the skillet. Add the last two teaspoons of schmaltz and the livers, garlic and parsley, and another small pinch of salt and pepper. Cook them covered, over medium heat, so the steam and water will become part of the cooking. Add a bit of water from what is left from the original cup if the skillet gets too dry. Once the livers are cooked, add the reserved onions to the mix, and toss and cook for another two minutes over medium-low heat. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of cognac and flambée (ignite) the whole mix. Be careful not to keep your face too close to the skillet as you strike the match, or you could get burned (the flame will not last long but it will go high). Make sure to shake the skillet while the flame is lit. Put 1/3 of the liver/onion mix in a food processor with one egg cut in half and chop it fine. If it appears mushy or even wet, don’t worry. It settles later. Repeat until the mix is chopped. Add a little salt if needed as you place the mix in a bowl and can still toss it around. Put the covered bowl in the fridge and settle for at least an hour.

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