This is a response to a recent article by Conservative Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple, Los Angeles. The article "Why Jews Should Not Accept Jesus Whatever George W. Bush Thinks" appeared in the Jewish Daily Forward. You may read that article here Dear Rabbi Wolpe, This letter comes to you with high regard for the continuing […]
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Too often I bump into people, even theologically educated Christian people, who are impatient with talk about the Jewishness of Yeshua and the place the Jewish people have in the consummating purposes of God. Recently, someone commented that Yeshua coming to and through the Jeewish people is simply an accident of history. After all, he […]
In the Messianic Jewish world I am known for insisting that Jewish repentance entails a return to covenant faithfulness expressed in loving adherence to the mitzvot, the commandments we have received in Torah. I have been teaching this for decades, intensifying my efforts in recent blogs here at www.interfaithfulness.org Whenever I produce biblical arguments for […]
One day early in the history of the Yeshua movement in Jerusalem, some of his sh'lichim [apostles] got in trouble with the authorities in the Temple area and were brought before the Sanhedrin. Here is part of what happened on that occasion: And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And […]
In general we have been examining my proposition that Jewish repentance is different from that repentance required of Gentiles. Under that umbrella, we have seen that the pathway of Jewish deparature from God is departure from his mitzvot/commandments, and that therefore the pathway of return includes a return to obeying them. In addition we saw […]
In some naïve areas of Christian consensus people imagine that Jews obey Torah because they believe that this will save them. However, a simple conversation with the average religious Jew, or reading in books by religious Jews will demonstrate this to be a fantasy. And which of us has not heard the proposition that Judaism […]
Here at Interfaithfulness, our vision statement speaks of “Exploring the synergy between Judaism and Christianity, partnership between Christians and Jews, and the relationship between God’s tomorrow and our today.” I want to look at that last component with you for a few minutes: “the relationship between God’s tomorrow and our today.” One of the aspects […]
This is a detailed review of a book that has much to commend it. The book is: Calvin L. Smith, ed., The Jews, Modern Israel and the New Supersessionism. New Revised and Expanded Edition (Broadstairs, Kent, UK: King’s Divinity Press), 2013. This much-needed work deals with the old phenomenon of supersessionism but in a new […]
In part one of this little series on Moses' marital life, we considered interfaith conflicts he had with his fiery wife, Tzipporah. This second study takes place later in his life, when Moses is already established as the leader of Israel. He marries again. This time he marries a Cushite, whom we would term an Ethiopian. […]
Andrea King, If I’m Jewish and You’re Christian, What Are the Kids? [New York: UAHC Press], 1993. This blog post supplements the previous one which covered the first half of this book. Here is the second half. Anyone who knows anyone in a Jewish/Christian intermarriage would benefit from reading and thinking about both reviews and […]
