Alec Goldberg, Israel Director As a Russian Jew, I don’t think I had even heard of Hanukkah before the glasnost times. My parents themselves, though each fully Jewish, weren’t aware of the meaning of Passover, let alone the less significant Jewish holidays. In the USSR, believing in God and going public about it was not […]
Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator We have had a very active autumn at the Caspari Center, and have launched some exciting new projects. Follow along with us through the semester and enjoy the pictures! Our new children’s ministry video course began in November – you’re invited to read more about that here. Seminars and courses In […]
Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator We have embarked on a new project in collaboration with Machaseh, a non-profit charity association. The project is a “Taboo” Forum discussion panel which will address topics most of us would generally prefer to avoid. The first discussion panel, on November 26th, was on the topic of domestic violence. We had […]
Margarita Kantor & Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinators, with Jennifer N. In just the past few years, our Shabbat school seminars have served over 600 people from around 120 local Messianic congregations. As much as we rejoice in having reached so many people, we are aware that there are always people who wish to participate, but […]
As many of our readers are aware, in 1999, Caspari Center was the first to publish in-depth research on the Messianic Movement in Israel, in the form of a book entitled “Facts & Myths About the Messianic Congregations in Israel”. Twenty years on, the Messianic movement has grown tremendously, through the immigration of believers from […]
Elisabeth Eriksen Levy, CEO The Messianic Movement in Israel is growing and maturing. Nearly 40 years ago, when the Caspari Center was established, the movement of Jewish Believers in Jesus could have been compared to a small child who needed to be carefully nurtured and spoon-fed. Today, the situation is vastly different. The child has […]
Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator I’m sitting in Christ Church’s beautiful historical garden with Michael Kerem. Here, one can enjoy a cup of coffee in peace and quiet, oblivious to the Old City of Jerusalem hustle and bustle just outside. Michael Kerem is a Messianic Jew living in Jerusalem, and a long-term missionary to Muslims in […]
Margarita Kantor, Project Coordinator One of our more consistently successful areas of ministry has been our seminars for Shabbat school teachers. In fact, we are currently in our 21st year of Shabbat school ministry. As gratifying as that success is, the danger of repeatedly organizing the same seminars, year after year, is that we might […]
Terho Kanervikkoaho & Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinators Encounter Between a Pastor and a Rabbi This past spring, we had two very interesting happenings in our International Teaching Ministry, here at the Caspari Center. In April, we hosted a friendly debate between Pastor David R. Parsons from the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) and Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi […]
Terho Kanervikkoaho, Project Coordinator Once upon a time there was a pastor. (It wasn’t me. Honest.) This pastor had just stumbled upon an allegorical method of reading Old Testament stories and through it had made some wonderful discoveries. Now he was tempted to apply this method in every situation. And as this pastor was from […]