The following Video is a great one about the resilience of Israeli’s:
Tag Archives: YESHUA
THE HISTORY OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
When you watch this Video you will learn what you have not been taught before.
TRUTH STATEMENTS THAT ARE WORTH GOLD
I love it when someone is able to express TRUTH in a way that anyone is capable of perceiving. I hope you enjoy these statements about Torah and Yah’s ways:
LIVE AS HE LIVED WALK AS HE WALKED
This is an excellent article:
LIVE AS HE LIVED OR WALK AS HE WALKED
If you love Elohim (known to many as “God”) and claim to be serving or united with Him, you must live as Emmanu’El HaMashiyach lived.. He lived by the observance of the Torah (known as the poor title of “Mosaic Law”)..
“A person who claims to be continuing in union with Him (Y’shua HaMashiyach) ought to conduct his life the way He did.” 1 John 2:6 (CJB)
“Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.” 1 John 2:6 (NLT)
LIVE AS HE DID….Think about it… He lived by the Torah- SINLESS, because SIN IS transgression of the Torah (1 John 3:4) so He HAD TO live out the Torah to be sin-less!… This is a fact 
Emmanu’El HaMashiyach (Yeshua/Yahusha the Messiah – known to most English speakers as “Jesus”) observed 7th day Shabbat (NOT SUNDAY), kept the Scriptural Feasts (Pesach, etc NOT “EASTER”).. He wore tzitziyot – not wwjd bracelets (Matthew 9:18-26, Matthew 14:36) and he followed the Torah perfectly (2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Peter 2:22). He rebuked the hypocritical P’rushim (Pharisees) but much of what “Yeshua taught agreed with the ethical teachings of sages of His day (eg; Hillel on loving your neighbor, Shammai on divorce and centrality of the Shema” – hebrew4christians.com (quote).. This wasn’t Yeshua claiming ALL P’rushim (Pharisees) were bad teachers, but the hypocritical ones are a problem, MUCH LIKE TODAY! Pastors, ministers, reverends, priests -OR WHATEVER TITLE- who lie, cheat, steal and commit adultery are no better than the P’rushim Yeshua rebuked!..
Problem with Pharisees? Matthew 23:3 makes it very clear, to do what the Pharisees teach, but NOT WHAT THEY DO; they were hypocrites! Still He said tho, DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU! They tell you Torah from the “seat of Moshe” (Moses).. DO THE TORAH but not what they do because they do not do the Torah! lol
YESHUA, the Messiah, Emmanu’El HaMashiyach followed Torah, observed it, born under it (Gal 4:4), HE IS THE LIVING WORD because the Word became flesh… The “written Word” is the Torah, the LIVING Word is the Torah in Flesh- YESHUA..
BTW the 7 Scriptural Feasts–
1. Passover/Pesach
2. Unleavened Bread
3. Firstfruits/Grain Harvest
4. Weeks/Shavuot
5. Yom Teruah (Trumpets)/Rosh Hashana
6. Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur September
7. Tabernacles/Sukkot
Shalom Shalom Chaverim Tovim
DO YOU HAVE THE MIND OF THE MESSIAH?
You will discover the answer to my question after you watch this Video:
TO THE JEW FIRST AND THEN TO THE GENTILE
WHAT PART DO GENTILES PLAY IN ELOHIM’S KINGDOM?
WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE HEAVENS?
You will be astonished when you learn what the Creator placed in the Heavens.
THE PROPHETS AND THE MESSIAH
You will be fascinated when you learn what the Prophets said about the Messiah.
ANTI-SEMITIC U.S. COURT
The following article will show that Antisemitism IS ALIVE AND WELL in America, and display the arrogance of people who favored that Law:
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| WASHINGTON – A US federal appeals court on Tuesday invalidated a law that was designed to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to list Israel on their passports as their birthplace.The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds a longstanding US foreign policy dictate that says that the president – and not lawmakers – has the sole authority to say who controls Jerusalem.
In the government, the president “exclusively holds the power to determine whether to recognize a foreign sovereign,” Judge Karen Henderson wrote for the panel. Since the founding of Israel, US presidents have declined to state a position on the status of Jerusalem, leaving it as one of the thorniest issues to be resolved in possible future peace talks. The US State Department, which issues passports and reports to the president, has declined to enforce the law passed by Congress in 2002, saying it violated the separation of executive and legislative powers laid out in the US Constitution. When president George W. Bush signed the law, he said that, if construed as mandatory rather than advisory, it would “impermissibly interfere” with the president’s authority to speak for the country in international affairs. Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, whose son Menachem was born in Jerusalem and is a US citizen, filed a lawsuit in 2003 demanding that the government enforce the law. Menachem’s passport lists the city of birth as Jerusalem and does not mention a country. The issue reached the US Supreme Court last year on the preliminary question of whether it was so political that it did not belong in the courts. The high court ruled 8-1 that the case could proceed, setting up Tuesday’s ruling. The Zivotofskys plan to ask for the Supreme Court’s opinion once again, their lawyer, Nathan Lewin, said on Tuesday. “Today’s majority and concurring decisions acknowledge that the constitutional issue presented by this case is significant and calls for resolution by the Supreme Court,” Lewin said in a statement. While Israel calls Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital, few other countries accept that status. Most, including the US, have their embassies to Israel in Tel Aviv. American Jewish organizations have been following the case closely, having lobbied Congress for the original legislation. After applying pressure on consecutive administrations, both Democrat and Republican, to recognize Jerusalem-born citizens as Israelis, the court decision represented a setback to their efforts. “The core question is simply factual: Can somebody be born in a city that’s not part of a state?” Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told The Jerusalem Post. “The court ruled on the constitutional issues, not on the substance. It’s not their prerogative to deal with the substance, so it’s not like it addresses the status of Jerusalem.” The American Jewish Committee had submitted a brief in the case arguing the constitutionality of the law, and in a statement to the Post said that its leadership was “not pleased” with the decision to gut Section 214(d). “The appellate court’s ruling that section 214(d) is unconstitutional is unfortunate, as it undermines the existing balance of power between the Congress and Executive branch in foreign policy,” said AJC General Counsel Marc Stern. “No one should be surprised if the Zivotofsky family petitions the US Supreme Court to hear their case again.” An estimated 50,000 American citizens were born in Jerusalem and could have used the law, if it were enforced, to list Israel as their birthplace. |
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‘Islamic Rights in Jerusalem’ Why No ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ Decision (VIDEO)
Published: July 24th, 2013
9-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky sued the U.S. government for refusing to include “Israel” alongside “Jerusalem” as his place of birth on his passport.
A federal court released its decision regarding whether it is permissible for the United States to refuse to enter “Jerusalem, Israel” on the passport of an American born in Jerusalem on Tuesday, July 23. The result was not unexpected. The court decided that a portion of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which congress enacted in order to allow Israel to appear alongside Jerusalem on such a passport, was an unconstitutional law. The basis for that decision was that in enacting that law, congress had impermissibly intruded upon the exclusive power of the Executive branch to conduct diplomatic relations with foreign entities.
But the surprise, and the anger – for those who disagree with the decision – should be directed at the Executive branch for its long–held position that Jerusalem is not part of Israel. And we learn in this Opinion, what is driving this long-held position. It is a fear of anger and violence if the U.S. does something to “undervalue” “Islamic rights in Jerusalem.”
Got that? The U.S. is afraid of undervaluing “Islamic rights in Jerusalem.” Perhaps the decision makers in the U.S. Department of State and all the Secretaries of State never had the opportunity to view the very important interview of Arabic Studies professor and scholar Mordechai Kedar gave to an Al Jazeera anchor. See that interview at the end of this article.
Congress sought to correct what it viewed as an incorrect decision by the Executive branch. But the judiciary branch could not allow that.
BACKGROUND
Menachem Zivotofsky was born in Jerusalem to American parents. Shortly after his birth, Zivotofsky’s parents applied for a passport for him. In the application, Zivotofsky’s mother listed his birthplace as Jerusalem, Israel.
But the U.S. State Department issued the child’s passport listing only Jerusalem – no country was listed – as his place of birth.
That year, 2002, Zivotofsky’s parents filed a lawsuit against the State Department on their son’s behalf, seeking to have a passport issued to their son which would list, as requested in the original application, Jerusalem, Israel, as the child’s birthplace.
This case has traveled up and down the federal court system, stopping in some courts more than once. It even reached the U.S. Supreme Court where a subsidiary issue was heard two years ago, before being sent back down the court system for further development.
The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declared unconstitutional a portion of the 2002 Foreign Relations Authorization Act which would permit a passport to be issued listing as the place of birth Jerusalem, Israel for Zivotofsky and others in his position.
This is the relevant portion of the FRAA which the court declared unconstitutional:
(d) RECORD OF PLACE OF BIRTH AS ISRAEL FOR PASSPORT PURPOSES. For purposes of the registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary shall, upon the request of the citizen’s legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel.
What the court did was – not surprisingly, even if one disagrees with the result – rule that congress exceeded its powers by passing legislation which, the court found, wrongly interferes with matters over which it does not have ultimate authority. That exclusive authority instead rests with the Executive branch. The power to recognize the sovereignty of another country and to determine foreign policy, is one of the powers which the U.S. government’s separation of powers doctrine grants to the Executive branch.
What is significant about this case is not that the Court of Appeals has ruled that Jerusalem is not part of Israel.
The more interesting question is why the Executive branch is so set against even something so small as to allow a child’s passport to state that when a child was born in Jerusalem, he was also born in the country of Israel.
The D.C. court noted that it has always been the position of the Executive branch to remain neutral on the question of who has sovereignty over Jerusalem. It quotes from the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual which was in effect in 2002, when Menachem Zivotofsky was born and when his parents sought to have his passport list Jerusalem, Israel as his birthplace. The FAM explicitly states that, “for an applicant born in Jerusalem: ‘Do not write Israel or Jordan’ on his passport.” It also states that “Israel ‘[d]oes not include Jerusalem.'”
SAME ISSUE AS IN THE JERUSALEM EMBASSY ACT
In Zivotofsky, the court treated the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, passed in 2002, the way the Jerusalem Embassy Act has been treated, in other words: “no dice.”
But what is perhaps the most interesting portion of the opinion – for people who like this kind of thing – is the court’s discussion of what was animating the passage of the Foreign Authorization Act, and then a peek into why congress believed it was forced into taking this action.
WHAT ANIMATES THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH’S HOSTILITY TO STATING JERUSALEM IS IN ISRAEL
“Our reading of section 214(d) as an attempted legislative articulation of foreign policy is consistent with the Congress’ characterization of the legislation,” the Opinion states.
Yes, that wily rogue congress was, through the FRAA, attempting to “alter United State policy toward Jerusalem.” The Opinion quotes snippets of statements made by members of congress during the hearings on the legislation. Rep. Tom Lantos, Senator Jesse Helms, Rep. Diaz-Balart, and Rep. Henry Hyde all stated that the FRAA was an effort to force the United States to recognize that Jerusalem is part of Israel.
But why is the Executive branch so dead set against recognizing that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel? That question is answered in Tuesday’s Opinion, as well. The Secretary of State responded to questioning during the discovery phase of the litigation. The Secretary addressed the reason the Foreign Affairs Manual is so explicit and so emphatic about not including Israel as the country in which Jerusalem is located:
Any unilateral action by the Untied States that would signal, symbolically or concretely, that it recognizes that Jerusalem is a city that is located within the sovereign territory of Israel would critically compromise the ability of the United States to work with Israelis, Palestinians and others in the region to further the peace process.
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The Palestinians would view any United States change with respect to Jerusalem as an endorsement of Israel’s claim to Jerusalem and a rejection of their own. [emphasis added by the court] Thus, ‘within the framework of this highly sensitive, and potentially volatile mix of political, juridical and religious considerations, U.S. Presidents have consistently endeavored to maintain a strict policy of not prejudging the Jerusalem status issue and this not engaging in official actions that would recognize, or might be perceived as constituting a recognition of, Jerusalem as either the capital city of Israel, or as a city located within the sovereign territory of Israel.” [emphasis added by the court]
And just to be clear about which party is the one the Executive branch is fearful of offending, the court again quotes testimony provided by the Secretary of State at an earlier stage of the litigation, who reported that “various Palestinian groups issued statements asserting that Section 214(d) ‘undermined the role of the U.S. as a sponsor of the peace process,”undervalued … Palestinian, Arab and Islamic rights in Jerusalem” and”raised questions about the real position of the U.S. administration vis-à-vis Jerusalem.’
And with that, the court rejects the relevant portion of the FRAA as a conscious effort of the congress to usurp a “considered exercise of the Executive branch’s recognition power.”
International law expert and legal professor Eugene Kontorovich explained to The Jewish Press, “The response of the U.S. government to the Zivotofsky claims really presents a much larger problem, which is the complete refusal of the U.S. to recognize Jerusalem as part of Israel at all. Even if this lawsuit was resolved satisfactorily for Zivotofsky, it still would not address that underlying problem.”
“The Jerusalem exception also illustrates the ease with which U.S. foreign policy can bend in the face if Islamic intimidation – even to the point of adopting a surreal and counterfactual policy,” Kontorovich continues. “Yet the possibility of peace with the Palestinians would depend on robust American guarantees to stand by Israel if the going got tough. The unwillingness to accede to reality on such a basic and longstanding truth does not auger well for this.”
About the Author: Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the US correspondent for The Jewish Press. She is a recovered lawyer who previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools.
THE FATHER OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM
The following article will display how Messianic Judaism came about in the 20th Century . It is a beautiful thing to be born a Jew and Die a Jew:
The Father of 20th Century Messianic Judaism
Ron Cantor — July 21, 2013 — 2 Comments
Any student of Israel knows that Theodore Herzl is the father of modern Zionism. His book, The Jewish State, called for the creation of a Jewish homeland as the only safe haven for the Jewish people. Eliezer Ben Yehuda is considered the father of Modern Hebrew, a dead, unspoken language in 1880, now spoken by over 10 million people.
But equally impressive as the rebirth of the Jewish nation and the language of Hebrew is the rebirth of the Messianic Jew—the Jew who professes faith in Yeshua, and, like the first believers, continues to live as a Jew. There are many men and woman who were influential in the Messianic revival. Moishe Rosen birthed Jews for Jesus and raised up an army of Jewish emissaries. Joseph Rabinowitz started the First Assembly of the Israelites of the New Covenant in 1885. Our own Ari and Shira pioneered spirit-filled Messianic Judaism in Israel with their first house congregation in 1977 and then by birthing the first Hebrew only spirit-filled congregation in 1995. As far back as 1959, Victor Smadja started Keren Ahava Mishihit in Jerusalem. My spiritual father, Dan Juster has also played a major role in shaping Messianic Jewish expression through the Tikkun Network and the UMJC.
MARTIN CHERNOFF
Martin and Yohanna Chernoff
However, if there is one figure who stands out as the father of Modern Messianic Judaism it would have to be Martin Chernoff. His father Solomon fled the Russian army in the early 1900s in order to give his family a better life in America. But, after arriving in Amsterdam, he was broke. For three years he worked and saved in order to buy tickets to cross the Atlantic. However, thinking he had arrived in New York, he was shocked to find himself in Argentina!
After another three years, he and his family took a train through South America to New York City. However, when he got off at the last stop he was in Toronto, Canada, missing New York for the third time! This time, Solomon settled his family in Toronto, as there were already 4,000 Russian Jewish immigrants living there, and continued his trade as a tailor.
A SECRET HE HELD TO THE GRAVE – ALMOST
One day Solomon heard a Jewish believer preaching. He sat down to listen and secretly professed faith in Yeshua. He knew this would send shockwaves through his orthodox Jewish family so he decided he would never tell a soul.
Many years later, their son Martin would make a similar decision, embracing Yeshua as His Messiah, but instead of keeping it to himself would seek to bring as many Jewish people as he could to faith in Yeshua. On his deathbed, his father confessed his secret faith to his son.
ASSIMILATION VS. JEWISH IDENTITY
Martin and his wife Yohanna worked for many years for an organization seeking to bring Jewish people to faith. He was constantly at odds with them, as he began to realize the need for Jewish believers to have their own meetings in a Jewish context. The organization emphasized winning Jewish people to the faith and then funneling them into local churches to be discipled (where they would often lose their Jewish identity).
Martin was told he was not qualified to disciple “Hebrew Christians,” as they were called then, and once, when he immersed several new Jewish believers in water at a conference, the leader of his organization saw red, as he rebuked Martin, telling him again that it was beyond his scope of authority.
THE JESUS REVOLUTION AND THE JEWS
The biography that Martin’s wife, Yohanna, wrote.
In the midst of a prayer meeting in 1963, just after the assassination of President Kennedy, Martin had the second of three visions. He saw, in addition to scores of Jewish people coming to faith (as in his first vision) a group of unkept and shabby young people – dressed in rags. He had no idea that the coming years would usher in the hippy phenomenon and that God would use his wife, Yohanna and him to bring many of these young Jewish people to Yeshua.
In addition to ushering in the sexual revolution, psychedelic rock and popularizing LSD usage, the hippie movement revealed a deep spiritual hunger inside that generation. In April 1966 Time Magazine ran the headline: Is God Dead? However, just five years later, after this massive revival, their headline in June 1971 was, The Jesus Revolution.
Scores of young Jewish people came to faith in Cincinnati forming the nucleus of the Chernoff’s home congregation. Thousands more Jews embraced Yeshua all across the U.S. as God raised up a leadership for a new thing he was about to do.
FROM HEBREW CHRISTIANITY BACK TO MESSIANIC JUDAISM
In 1970 Martin had his third open vision. “Two electrifying simple words stretched across the sky in the form of a banner.” He saw the words: Messianic Judaism.
This vision would define the rest of Martin’s life and his legacy. The small group of Jewish believers in Cincinnati confessed:
“We are Jewish believers in Yeshua as our Messiah. We have our own destiny in the Lord. We will no longer be assimilated into the Church and pretend to be non-Jews. If Yeshua Himself, His followers and the early Jewish believers tenaciously maintained their Jewish lifestyles, why was it right for them, but wrong now? Gentile converts are not expected to forsake their families, culture, holidays and traditions; nor shall we do so.”
No longer would they call themselves Hebrew Christians, but Messianic Jews.
Despite the fact they were seeing dozens of young Jewish people receive Yeshua, the leader of the organization who paid their salary gave them an ultimatum. Either disband their congregation, hand over the names to the organization (so these Jews could be placed in churches), or leave.
Marty had a major decision to make: Stay with the organization, get paid, disband their congregation and funnel new believers to churches or resign his position, officially birth congregation Beth Messiah, and trust God to provide for their needs. Other than a few isolated cases, there was no example of a self-sustained, independent Messianic Congregation. It was virgin territory.
After a lengthy discussion between the leaders and the congregants, it was decided that disbanding was not an option. Martin would become their rabbi and they would support Yohanna and him. Congregation Beth Messiah was birthed.
NATIONAL INFLUENCE
Soon Martin was elected to be president of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America. More and more Jewish believers were calling themselves Messianic Jews instead of Hebrew Christians. The moniker Hebrew Christian emphasized that the believer was of Jewish background, whileMessianic Jew, emphasized that the believers continued to live as Jews, after believing in Yeshua.
However, changing the name of the HCAA would not be easy. Many old-timers strongly objected to the new Messianic theme and Jewish identity. They didn’t like the dancing or the singing of Klezmer (Yiddish sounding) songs with Messianic lyrics. The first vote was defeated, but not without controversy. Rather than fighting, Martin wisely put the issue to rest, realizing that it was only a matter of time.
Two years later the young hippie believers far outnumbered the old guard and the name was changed to the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA).
BETH YESHUA IN PHILADELPHIA
Eventually the Chernoffs would move to Philadelphia and take over the “Fink Zoo”—a group of young Jewish believers who met in the home of Joe and Debbie Finklestein. They called their new congregation Beth Yeshua.
When I first heard of Messianic Jews in 1984, the orthodox community had declared war on Beth Yeshua and they were fighting for their survival. By 1985 they were calling for a nationwide protest – with the goal of destroying the Messianic Jewish movement. Jews from all over were bussed in to protest and Beth Yeshua was their target. If Beth Yeshua could be toppled, then maybe they could crush the whole movement.
I drove right by Philadelphia during Hurricane Gloria just before this mass demonstration, as my Long Island-based Bible School released us for our own safety. The folks at Beth Yeshua were hoping that Gloria would ruin the planned protest. However, Pat Robertson rebuked the storm just before it hit his Virginia Beach-based CBN and Gloria headed out to sea. Pat was happy; the Messianics in Philadelphia were dismayed.
However, when Beth Yeshua took their worship team outside in the midst of the anti-Messianic demonstration, the entire protest was diffused. Some protesters ended up actually dancing with the Beth Yeshua congregants. After a short time, leaders called off the protests and fled.
LEGACY
So many leaders that lead congregations today were discipled by Martin Chernoff. His legacy lives on in these many men and women, not to mention his own children Joel, David and Hope, all leaders in the Messianic Movement today.
(All quotes are taken from Born a Jew, Die a Jew, the biography of Martin Chernoff, written by his wife Yohanna.)
YAHOWAH THE ONLY ONE 