Grandma Bessie never wanted to have anything to do with the person of Yeshua for as long as I could remember. Whenever I would try to broach the subject, she would flick the back of her hand in the air to indicate her disinterest. She refused even to pronounce the name, “Yeshua.” It was a […]
Born in Berlin, I grew up in a Jewish family and survived the Holocaust. We observed the Jewish holidays, thanked God and asked His blessing. I was never told that I had to believe in God, He was just there. In 1938, my father was arrested and held captive during the ‘Kristallnacht’. I was ten […]
I am a survivor of Hitler’s Holocaust, I survived the concentration camp Dachau. My family was very orthodox and we lived in a little city in Poland. My mother instilled in me that Judaism was life and that mealtimes were family times. Father would come home from synagogue and recite the Kaddish, the blessing over […]
Michael Brown has written books and articles that have been translated into more than a dozen languages, debated and dialogued with rabbis on radio and TV and earned a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University. He has lectured as a visiting professor at leading theological institutes and served as president […]
I was raised in a warm, musical, traditional Jewish family in the heart of a large Jewish community in Hackney, in the East End of London. Our extended family, although not a very orthodox group, was nevertheless totally Jewish in identity and heritage. I always believed in God I suppose I believed in God from […]
I was only two years old when I ended up in a strongly orthodox Jewish orphanage. One day, when I was 11, something happened which left a mark on the rest of my life. On my way back to the orphanage from school, some children threw stones at me and the other children from the […]
Daniel grew up with much hatred of Russians and Germans. “Since that moment in 1991 when I became a believer in Jesus as the Messiah, my life has never been the same again!” Love came instead of hate.” Fear and shame As the son of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust I was, at a […]
Bob Mendelsohn (1951) is the leader of Jews for Jesus Austral-Asia, a territory that now includes Singapore and New Zealand. He lives in Sydney with his wife and children. Since he came to believe in Yeshua as his Messiah, he wants to share the Gospel with everyone, but especially with his Jewish people. As a […]
Sharon Allen was active in the ultra-orthodox Chabad centre in Southern California, but then she started to search for the truth about the Messiah. I was born and raised in an observant Jewish home. As a young adult I married a man from a similar Jewish background and we had a daughter, whom we named […]