Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! The Jewish New Year, that is. It's September, the end of summer, the beginning of school, and— according to the Jewish calendar—the 5769th year since God created the heavens and the earth. On the Gregorian calendar, Rosh Hashanah (literally "head of the year") spans 24 hours, commencing at sunset on September 29. It is the first of the "High Holy days" with Yom Kippur following ten days later. It is customary to eat apples or a special, round challah (egg bread) dipped in honey on Rosh Hashanah, …[ Full Article ]

Why Faith Isn't Fashionable

by Arielle Rothbard As a Messianic believer at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, I sometimes struggle with tensions that arise between my love of fashion and my faith. A summer internship with Jews for Jesus gave me an opportunity to reflect on this (among other things) and to share my thoughts with you. Fashion reflects the times. It reflects the political, economic, socio-cultural, and even technological matters of a given age. Wars begin, then cease. Stock markets plummet, then boom. Synthetic fibers are…[ Full Article ]

College Outreach

Jews for Jesus began with Moishe Rosen and a handful of creative college-age Jews who wanted to make a difference for the Lord. Many of our activities took place on, or close to, college campuses, like UC Berkeley and UCLA. These were areas where Jews in their late teens and early twenties were desperately searching for truth and purpose. Thirty-five years later, many of our staff now have sons and daughters the same age their parents were when this ministry began. Campus evangelism continues to be crucial to our ministry. Many college…[ Full Article ]

Jesus' References to Old Testament Scriptures by Rich Robinson

Jesus' References to Old Testament Scriptures, by Rich Robinson From start to finish, the New Testament contains quotations, references, allusions and paraphrases of the Old Testament. Sometimes the New Testament follows the Hebrew text; in other cases it more closely follows the translation into Greek of the Old Testament called the Septuagint.  This chart lists many references from the Old Testament found on the lips of Jesus in the Gospels.*  But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that…[ Full Article ]

Moishe's Musings

Intelligence is knowing; wisdom is knowing how to apply what you know, and applying it properly. We have too many people who are educated and yet are not wise. This is one reason we (Jews for Jesus) continue to emphasize training and not just education. Education is only a part of training. Training is teaching people how to use what they know." "We've got all the right answers, but we didn't hear the question. The right answer to the wrong question is worse than no answer at all." "If you want to teach people…[ Full Article ]

Reaching College Students on the INTERNET

Reaching College Students on the INTERNET

Have you checked out our Jews for Jesus website at www.jewsforjesus.org? It's full of resources for believers in Jesus interested in reaching out to Jewish people, but the overarching purpose of our site is to make the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide. In light of this, we are launching several mini-sites to personalize our message for specific audiences.

Our first such mini-site is specifically for college students. GradJEWate.com includes testimonies of how Jewish students met Jesus. Among its interactive elements, GradJEWate.com features polls, e-books, videos, answers to common questions and, most importantly, a clear gospel presentation and an invitation to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. If you have a website, blog, Facebook, MySpace, or other site where it would be appropriate to promote this website, we welcome your help! If you go to GradJEWate.com/promote you'll find banners, links and descriptions to post on your site.

Please pray for this venture, that the many online seekers would find the living Truth

Bits from the Branches

Essen Yuliya Hennenberg reports, "Lyudmila is a 'good Jewish girl' who believes in God but doesn't recognize Jesus as Messiah. I visit her occasionally and when she invited me to meet her fiancé, who is also Jewish, I gladly agreed. "Lyudmila described me to her fiancé, Stiven, as being 'like a rabbi' to her, which surprised us both. I explained that while Lyudmila and I have different opinions, we both believe in God and read the Jewish Scriptures. When he asked about our differences, it was the perfect opportunity to…[ Full Article ]