Let’s talk about one of the key concepts here at Interfaithfulness: The More Jewish Jesus. We will be talking about him in this way frequently, but today, I want to do so in interaction with one area of discussion found in the e-book, The Torah’s Goal?, produced by the people at the Israel College of the […]
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As part of a series of blogs interacting with the position advanced by the recently released e-book The Torah’s Goal? (TTG), this is the second dealing with their broad characterization of the compositional strategy of the Torah in which they state that Moses designed the first chapters of Genesis to be a prophecy of the […]
This is the first in a series of blog posts interacting with a recent e-book by some stand-out experts at the One for Israel Project affiliated with Israel College of the Bible. The e-book is titled The Torah's Goal? Here is how they state their goal. Our thesis about the purpose of the Torah (Gen through […]
September 2, 1979. The seats are dark velvet and I stroke them with my hand, a kind of self-comforting gesture. Beside me sits my mother, married nearly 50 years to the man we just put in the ground, my father. It is summer in New York. And it is dark. It was then that Mom shared […]
The Leap Frog Fallacy is a concept I developed in 1990 for a course I taught about the siddur from a missiological perspective. From recent response to one of my blog posts, it is still needed. Commenting on my advocacy of Jewish believers in Yeshua living Jewish lives, that is, covenantal Torah living, a respondent complained, […]
Once in while, people who don't know me, who have heard nasty things about me or who don't feel comfortable with the positions I hold will accuse me of being weak on outreach, that is, they will accuse me of being indifferent to promoting Yeshua-faith among Jews. As soon as they say that, one thing […]
It occurred to me the other day that what I see developing around me could be termed a kind of Messianic Jewish Karaism. If you don’t know who the Karaites were, you need to know. Wikipedia has a nice article about them, and in part it says this: Karaite Judaism or Karaism יהדות קראית , […]
I am sad today, quite sad. I was talking to a young believer in Yeshua and getting a read on what many of his generation think of the things I stand for. Not nice. Not nice at all. What made me sad was not so much being discounted and disparaged, although that was there, and […]
Here at Interfaithfulness, especially through our HaB'er initiative, we are involved in mentoring Jewish and Intermarried families in Jewish life, Yeshua faith, and relationship with God. And families include people of all ages! But if you think that people beyond a certain age have outlived their usefulness, then don't waste your time reading this because, after […]
Many people bewail how fathers are absent from the black family in urban America. But when was the last time you heard someone bewail how not only white evangelical fathers but also Jewish fathers in modern urban America are absent as spiritual mentors to their children? Most Jewish parents, and here I am focusing especially […]
