Chag Sameach - Wishing You a Joyous Shavuot!

May 23, 2015

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Shavuot is called the Feast of First Fruits because of the celebration of the harvest when the Israelites brought the first fruits of the soil as a free will offering to God. It is also known as the Feast of Weeks because we count seven weeks from a particular day during Passover.

Iran Nuclear Deal Presents Serious Challenges for Israel

May 21, 2015

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I know I don’t have to tell you that the Middle East is already a volatile, incendiary powder keg. Even so, it seems the current U.S. Administration’s policies in the region are about to make it much more so.

Hatred Toward Israel and Her People

May 14, 2015

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“The world’s oldest hatred has reached surrealistic levels.” This was the sad but credible assessment of author and human rights activist Isi Leibler in an opinion column in the Jerusalem Post this week.

Prayer Points: How Lives Were Changed in Zimbabwe

May 13, 2015

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Thank you for praying for our Mberengwa, Zimbabwe Medical Outreach two weeks ago, and the Messianic Leadership Training that took place simultaneously. Because of your prayers and the gracious blessings of Yeshua, we saw challenges overcome, needs met, and lives changed.

Medical Missions: 641 People Met their Messiah in Zimbabwe

May 08, 2015

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7,659. That’s the number of patients who received treatment in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe last week during the Jewish Voice medical outreach there. Some walked for hours just to get to us and then stood in line for hours more. But they were desperate for treatment.

Medical Missions: They Are Waiting For Us to Return

April 30, 2015

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Zemzem is 70 years old and she lives two hours away from our Gondar clinic site. She came too late to receive treatment the previous year. The $1.00 bus fare was expensive for this impoverished woman, but far less costly than the price of a visit to a doctor, if not for our clinic.

Anti-Semitism, a Boundless Hate Toward Jewish People

April 28, 2015

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The family was staying at an upscale hotel in Southern Europe when the son returned to their room visibly shaken. He told his dad about a man who had just spewed insults at him while he was at the hotel’s pool.

Yeshua and Bible Prophecy

April 24, 2015

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“But this is so the Scriptures would be fulfilled” (Mark 14:49 TLV). Yeshua (Jesus) spoke these words to the band of people sent by the religious leaders into the Garden of Gethsemane to arrest Him. Bible prophecy conveys two very different portrayals of the Messiah.

ISIS and Modern-Day Martyrs

April 23, 2015

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You probably saw or heard news reports this last weekend that the Islamic State (ISIS) released a new video depicting the execution of 30 Ethiopian Christians by beheading or shooting on a beach in Libya. mideast-crisis_islamicstate-killings-3.jpg, Middle East, martyrs, ISIS

Jewish Voice Connections Newsletter - 2015 Issue 2

April 23, 2015

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Bumping and lurching down the long, rough dirt roads, we finally made it into the remote Ethiopian village of Woliso, where the people of the Gefat reside, which happened to be the location of our next medical clinic.