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Baptism—Pagan or Jewish? by Ceil Rosen

BINST GEVOREN A GOY! "You've become a Gentile!" We Jewish believers in Jesus the Messiah often encounter this accusation from non-believing family and friends after we've been baptized. They see baptism as the mystical key to an irreversible and dreaded change that severs the one who is baptized from his or her heritage and loyalties; and they hope that a person who has not yet been baptized may still change his mind about being a believer. Those who think this way have the sequence of cause and effect reversed. Baptism does not produce commitment; a person's…[ Full Article ]

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Excerpt from When Being Jewish Was a Crime by Rachmiel Frydland

The following is an excerpt from Rachmiel Frydland's autobiography, When Being Jewish Was A Crime. The time is 1938 in pre-war Poland. Mr. Frydland, a yeshiva student, has come to believe in Jesus. Inevitably, the time has come to tell his parents: When I was in the yeshiva, I rarely wrote home, but now I became more convinced that I must tell my parents what had happened. Yet whenever I began to write about my faith, I lacked the courage to be frank and I wrote in an indirect way. They must have guessed, or perhaps others wrote and told them of my experience, because…[ Full Article ]

>> In the Little Shtetl of Vaysechvoos    ::    Mendel the Bather

Perel was one of the loveliest girls in Vaysechvoos. Everyone expected that when it came time to marry she would certainly have her pick of the eligible young men of the town. The matchmakers rubbed their hands with glee thinking of the prospect. Perel was not only endowed with fine looks; she had a bright mind and a pleasant disposition as well. No wonder then that tongues went wagging after the shock of hearing that she had agreed to marry Mendel the Bather. One must explain the incongruity of this shidduch by recounting a tale. Mendel was not like other boys in…[ Full Article ]