Get to Know Our Staff!

My name is Tanja Shoshani, and as of December 2020, I am the Caspari Center’s newest project coordinator. I’m originally ...
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Cross-cultural Encounters With Shame

Cross-cultural Encounters With Shame
Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator Photo by klimkin on Pixabay In the Finnish Church, one Sunday every summer we are given ...
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Names of God in the Bible (Part II)

stained glass windows
Stained glass at Immanuel Church in Tel Aviv Elisabeth E. Levy, Director of Caspari Center We learned about some of ...
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Names of God in the Bible (Part I)

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Photo of a stained glass window in St. Ann’s Church, Manchester, England, courtesy of Pvasiliadis (Creative Commons) Elisabeth E. Levy, ...
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Eating Flesh, Drinking Blood

Holy communion pic
Alec Goldberg, Israel Director Like other practices, the order of the Communion service differs from one Christian denomination to another, ...
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Shabbat — the Lesson of Slowing Down

Shabbat elevator plate
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 of Medallion, co-creator of the course and also one of our online teachers, lectures about ...
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Discussing “Taboo” Topics

person sitting on a chair and thinking, with words surrounding like, like "hopeless" and "broken"
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

circle of women's hands
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

people on a study tour at an archeological site in Israel
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

a lot of different hanukkiot, all lit up
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

main presenters of the Taboo Forum lecture
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!

teacher teaching children in Shabbat School
Margarita Kantor & Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinators, with Jennifer N. In just the past few years, our Shabbat school seminars ...
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