Knut Høyland One of the Norwegian participants at BridgeBuilders, Andreas Masvie, will serve as a volunteer at Caspari Center this coming year. The following article contains some of his reflections on the conference and the work of reconciliation. How can the deep-rooted conflict of the Middle East be resolved? Is it at all possible? Is […]
Knut Høyland The third BridgeBuilders reconciliation conference was held in western Norway August 3–13, 2012. Twenty-nine young adults from Israel, the Palestinian territories, and Norway took part in the conference. All believers living in the Holy Land face the realities of the conflict every day. Jewish believers, Arab believers, expatriate believers—we all need to relate […]
Many surveys are conducted in Israel. There, in the flow of new information regarding what Israelis think about an attack on Iran, whether they trust the prime minister, and where they would prefer to live, there is also a survey that calls for greater attention from those who are interested in work among Jewish people. […]
Lisa Loden For many Israelis, Judaism has failed to bring inner peace, answers to the Mideast conflict, or meaning to the chaos of the world. For these people, the religions of the Far East have a strong power of attraction. Israelis (and Jews) can be found throughout the Far East, where they take part in […]
Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a […]
Alexander Goldberg “The power of prayer depends almost entirely upon our apprehension of who it is with whom we speak.” (Andrew Murray) June has been a month of much driving: I’ve been to Haifa 6 times, teaching at the Haifa Theological Institute. Four hours of driving (at best) for the sake of three and a […]
Heidi Maskell A walk on the streets of downtown Jerusalem quickly reveals the diversity of religious and cultural expressions. So where better a place to come on a spiritual quest. Lisa from LA, a girl with Jewish roots, came to explore the Holy Land and find some way of tangibly connecting her faith teachings with […]
Joel Goldberg, has much experience in youth ministry and is also the founder and leader of ‘Netivah’ – an organization that focuses on youth. The following is an interview with Joel. What drew you to youth ministry? I realized the need for ministry to youth while still in my teen years, watching friends of mine […]
Workshop for Teenage Girls It is a truth universally acknowledged that one of the most important – and challenging – tasks of the teen years is learning to fit in with peers. For Messianic youth in Israel, this is compounded by the fact that their peers, average Israeli teenagers, don’t know much (if anything) about […]
In Israel, Passover and the week of matzot (unleavened bread) is over, and the country is back to normal. In fact, it is only Jerusalem that gets filled with people (tourists) that week, while the rest of Israel’s cities become half-empty. This year, for the first time ever, I stayed in Tel-Aviv for the Feast […]