Shalom! Welcome to the Jewish Outreach Homepage! I decided to make this website to inform people of this rural college community (Morris) in west central Minnesota. We don't have any Jewish synagouges (I've been to Messianic Synagogues in the Twin Cities-see Judaism); however, we do have a small minority population of Jewish people.
How does the small nation of Israel (about the size of Delaware according to some sources) get so much attention in the world news media?
Q: Did you know where the name "Israel" came from?
A: "Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, [ Israel ] means [ he struggles with God ] . ] because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."-Genesis 32:28
This has been a topic for many many years since Israel became a state in 1948. Below are some links I found relating to the peace process:
My first recollection of learning about the Jewish people was through the movie "Ten Commandments", starring Charleston Heston. Known as Hebrews before being name "Israelites" or "Jews", they were slaves in the land of Egypt before being delivered to the "Promise Land". I loved and still love watching this movie, especially during the Easter Holiday season. After coming to a personal relationship with God-Jehovah, I've came to a more fuller knowledge and understanding of God's "chosen people".
Back in High School, I remember going through the emotional inspiring book "Diary of Anne Frank". This book touch me and many of my classmates when we were required to read this. I didn't really have much of a understanding why Jews were treated the way they were. After my increase in knowledge of Scripture, I've become more sensitive and open to understanding the "chosen people".
What is Zionism?
After reading about Jewish people on the internet, I ran into the word "zionism". I've heard about this before, but I decided to research more on this...
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*see GoodnewsEverybody.com Science: Biology, Animals, Biological Warfare, etc...
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From:Clint W.
I vote Ben Stein for head of state
Friday, December 18, 2009 7:29 PM
Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late!!
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay..
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
-"They will look on me, the one they have pierced (NT: John 19:37), and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son."-Zechariah 12
How a Jew comes to faith in his Messiah
"This is my story of how I came to know Jesus(Yeshua) as my Messia"
Articles
Books
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"On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them. 9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem."-Zechariah 12
-Survivors Stories
Holocaust Survivor Music Video
"Benefit Concert at Royalty Theatre Gods Embassy Ted Pearce and Sons play Zion's Sake. April 2007 Messianic Jews march with decendents of Nazis across southern Germany proclaming there is Hope for the King of the Jews. Holocaust survivor Rose Price forgives the German People.who then march to the death camp Dachau where she survived"
-"They will look on me, the one they have pierced (NT: John 19:37), and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son."-Zechariah 12
Religious
-Torah
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie
Ten Boom. Corrie Ten Boom,John Sherrill / Mass Market Paperback / Bantam Books, Incorporated / September 1974
Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith
Marvin R. Wilson / Paperback / Eerdmans, William B. Publishing
Company / March 1991
Raising Your Jewish-Christian Child: How Interfaith
Parents Can Give Children the Best of Both Their Heritages
Lee F. Gruzen,Foreword by Rabbi Lavey Derby,Foreword by Ev. Canon
Gibson,Canon J. Gibson / Paperback / Newmarket Press /
January 1990
Holocaust
-Diary of Anne Frank
-Escape from Sorbibo,
-Hidden Place
-Jacob's Liar (reviews (1) (2)), w/Robin Williams as Jacob, who uses humor to help a group of Jewish people get through the Holocaust
-Life is Beautiful
-Shindler's List
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