April 19 – 2020

During the week covered by this review, we received 2 articles on the following subjects: Christian Organizations / Christians and the Holocaust   Christian Organizations / Christians and the Holocaust Israel Hayom, April 17, 2020; The Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2020 Both articles told the story of Bet Eliezer, a nursing home for Holocaust survivors […]

April 14 – 2020

During the week covered by this review, we received 5 articles on the following subjects: Anti-Semitism Anti-Missionary Activity Anti-Missionary Attitudes  Bible / Biblical Scholarship    Anti-Semitism Haaretz, April 8, 2020 This was a piece about a current iteration of anti-Semitism which links Jews to the novel Coronavirus. The author began by saying that anti-Semitism has […]

April 5 – 2020

During the 2 weeks covered by this review, we received 2 articles on the following subjects: Book Reviews Christian Tourism Book Reviews  Iton 77, March 24, 2020 This was a review of Moshe Granot’s book, The Three Books of Horror: the Bible, the New Testament, the Quran. Granot’s thesis in his book is that “torahs” […]

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Discussing “Taboo” Topics

Sanna Erelä, Project Coordinator What do we do when someone close to us appears to be in a desperate state, perhaps even expressing the intent to harm themselves? How do we support someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide? In Israeli society, the value of human life is immeasurable […]

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“Bnot Yeshua”: A Forum for Women to Share Their Stories

Elisabeth E. Levy, Director of Caspari Center The second Thursday of January was a stormy day. The locks of heaven had opened up and were showering down rain. When you live in Israel, you don’t complain about pouring rain. You are grateful for it, because there isn’t much water in Israel, and the demand is […]

Get to Know Our Staff

Margarita Kantor, Project Coordinator Who are you?  My name is Margarita Kantor. I’m originally from Russia, and I’ve been working at the Caspari Center for a little over a decade, as a project coordinator. Not long ago, while I was visiting Germany, I met a woman who happened to be the only Jewish believer in […]

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Longing for Paradise

Katariina Leskelä Standing in the Herodion palace, I admire the frescoes on the wall. The colors are bright and beautiful. It’s almost impossible to believe that the renovation of this room was completed over 2,000 years ago, in 15 BC. Above the red-toned frescoes, you can see lovely painted patterns of flowers and vines, and […]