JEWISH VOICE BLOG

February 01, 2019

As a skier in a blue jacket and red pants slalomed down Mount Hermon in northern Israel, two vapor trails and a blast lit the sky. Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system had intercepted a medium-range surface-to-surface missile that Iran had fired into the popular ski resort from Syria. The missile had been fired from a location where Syria had promised not to host Iranian military personnel. Israel contends the missile aimed at Israeli civilians was a message from Syria and Iran: A ...

January 30, 2019

She doesn't know it, but her next drink could literally be the death of her. If only Naomi was not so terribly thirsty. Maybe then she'd think twice before she dipped her plastic drinking cup into the reddish-brown mudhole at the edge of her village. But she can't. She won't. It's her village's primary water supply… and one of the few sources of water for miles around. Naomi has no choice but to drink. Her thirst always wins. Before long, she could be dreadfully sick. With cholera. Or i...

January 30, 2019

February 1‒7 Prayer for Israel Believers in Israel Of Israel’s 8.5 million people, only about 2 percent are Believers in Yeshua (Jesus). Approximately 20,000 of those are Messianic Jews (Jewish Believers in Yeshua). Gentile Believers in Israel are frequently viewed there as dangerous missionaries, while Messianic Jews are often believed to have betrayed their Jewish faith. It can be challenging. Lord, please strengthen the Body of Messiah in Israel. Encourage these Believers – both Mess...

January 25, 2019

The nations will see your vindication, and all kings your glory. - Isaiah 62:2 When the Palestinian Authority saw Arab nations publicly warming up to Israel late last year, President Mahmoud Abbas called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League of States (ALS). The 22 ALS members had agreed not to normalize relations with Israel until the 70-year-old Palestinian cause was resolved. Opposition Crumbles Six nations formed the ALS in 1945 to buttress Arab prosperity and security...

January 25, 2019

Holding what meager possessions he’d been allowed to carry with him, Bart Stern adjusted to having just been shoved inside a small railroad car for cattle. It was the summer of 1944 in Hungary, and Bart was just 17 years old. He and his three brothers sang songs to lift their spirits as they watched more people herded inside the small car. They must have wondered how things had deteriorated to this. Eleven years earlier, in 1933, Adolf Hitler had been appointed Chancellor of Germany and began...

January 24, 2019

“For a great door has opened wide for me, though many are in opposition.” ―1 Corinthians 16:9 TLV This is an important verse to us at Jewish Voice, and we refer to it often. The English Standard Version (ESV) says it this way: “For a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” In this new year, we are looking at the many doors of opportunity that the Lord is opening for us. We are asking Him to open them wide and that, as we step through, our minis...

January 22, 2019

Since Yeshua’s (Jesus’) first disciples, there have always been Jewish Believers in Him. Even so, what today is called the Messianic Movement is relatively new. Its beginning is intertwined with the Jesus Movement of the 1960s. Messianic Judaism comprises identifiably Jewish Believers in Jesus, worship observances and lifestyles. It has much to offer the Body of Messiah and is having a valuable impact within the Church in several ways. Messianic Judaism fits Jewish Believers Mark grew up ...

January 22, 2019

“I hope my child lives.” Your support helped answer a father’s desperate prayer and saved a little boy’s life. But that’s only part of the story… Ballet stared at the clinic workers through empty eyes. His belly was badly swollen. It was clear that death was stalking this child. He was now so weak he could barely stand. It was the water that was making him sick. Every drink Ballet had taken for the last four years had literally been a cup of death. But he had no choice. The contaminated...

January 18, 2019

Iran is keeping the Middle East in turmoil and targeting Israel, charged U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week during half-hour speech at the American University in Cairo. “America’s penchant for wishful thinking led us to look the other way as Hezbollah, wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian regime, accumulated massive arsenal of approximately 130,000 rockets and missiles,” Pompeo explained. “We won’t accept this status quo. Our aggressive sanctions campaign against Iran is also ...

January 16, 2019

Two great reasons to visit Israel with us… The Dead Sea Relax on the beach that’s more than 1,300 feet below sea level, the lowest point of dry land on Earth Float on the salty water that won’t let you sink Enjoy the acclaimed medicinal and beauty benefits of its mineral rich mud Masada Marvel at the fortress symbolizing the determination of the Jewish people to live freely in the Land God gave them and die rather than become slaves of the Roman Empire Take in the...