Shabbat — the Lesson of Slowing Down

Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator Shabbat is a special time here in Jerusalem. Most of my neighbors are religious Jews —not ...
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A Worthwhile Investment

Bible School students on tour of Israel
Kristoffer Eknes, Director of Return2Sender I’ve always known that Jesus was Jewish, but I never fully understood how that affected ...
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What’s Happening Online?

Debby, teacher of the online teaching course for shabbat school teachers
Margarita Kantor, Project Coordinator Debby, one of our online teachers, lectures about how it’s natural for us to feel threatened ...
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Discussing “Taboo” Topics

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Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator What do we do when someone close to us appears to be in a desperate state, ...
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“Bnot Yeshua”: A Forum for Women to Share Their Stories

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Elisabeth E. Levy, Director of Caspari Center The second Thursday of January was a stormy day. The locks of heaven ...
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Longing for Paradise

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Katariina Leskelä Standing in the Herodion palace, I admire the frescoes on the wall. The colors are bright and beautiful ...
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December Dilemma

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Alec Goldberg, Israel Director As a Russian Jew, I don’t think I had even heard of Hanukkah before the glasnost ...
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Grateful for this autumn!

teaching a group of students of the Discovering Jesus study tour
Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator We have had a very active autumn at the Caspari Center, and have launched some exciting ...
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The “Taboo” Forum: Discussing Difficult Issues

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Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator We have embarked on a new project in collaboration with Machaseh, a non-profit charity association. The ...
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Children’s ministry is now online!

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Margarita Kantor & Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinators, with Jennifer N. In just the past few years, our Shabbat school seminars ...
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How Many Messianic Jews in Israel?

Two Caspari employees, Alec and David, in the Caspari Center library, holding a book called Facts and Myths About the Messianic Congregations in Israel
As many of our readers are aware, in 1999, Caspari Center was the first to publish in-depth research on the ...
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What Does the Future Hold for Us?

The Alliance Church building in Jerusalem, premises of the Caspari Center
Elisabeth Eriksen Levy, CEO The Messianic Movement in Israel is growing and maturing. Nearly 40 years ago, when the Caspari ...
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From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth

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Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator I’m sitting in Christ Church’s beautiful historical garden with Michael Kerem. Here, one can enjoy a ...
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Moving with the Times

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 Margarita Kantor, Project Coordinator One of our more consistently successful areas of ministry has been our seminars for Shabbat school ...
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News from Our International Ministry

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Terho Kanervikkoaho & Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinators Encounter Between a Pastor and a Rabbi This past spring, we had two ...
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How to Do It Wrong

Domenico Gargiulo's painting of David carrying the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem
Terho Kanervikkoaho, Project Coordinator Once upon a time there was a pastor. (It wasn’t me. Honest.) This pastor had just ...
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