Blogs and Updates
John Fieldsend
First Generation Holocaust Survivor
…we need to develop our own sense of right and wrong that can withstand any pressure to conform to the herd mentality which can so easily take over our lives.
- John Fieldsend in A Wondering Jew 2014
Jew in the Pew
Richard Harvey
Weekly updates and bloggs by Richard Harvey
Chair: British Messianic Jewish Alliance
Dr Richard Harvey writes and teaches on the history and theology of Messianic Judaism. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Wales (Lampeter), where his dissertation “Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology: A Constructive Approach” was supervised by Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published in 2009. He was previously Academic Dean and Director of Postgraduate Studies at All Nations College, UK, and continues to direct the Masters in Messianic Jewish Studies, the first post-graduate program on Messianic Judaism in the United Kingdom, validated by the Open University (UK). His recent publications include “Towards a Messianic Jewish Theology and Practice of Reconciliation” and “Holocaust Theology in the Light of Yeshua? Messianic Jewish Reception of Eikah.”
Martin Goldsmith
Writer, Speaker, Missiologist
Blogs, books and much more
International speaker, teacher and missiologist, Martin Goldsmith is a Jewish Christian who trained as a Russian interpreter. He and his wife Elizabeth spent ten years as missionaries in South East Asia, and were involved from the start with All Nations Christian College.
Roni and Elisheva Mechanic
Roni and Elisheva Mechanic are a Messianic Jewish couple whose ministry blends art, theology and cross‑cultural engagement.
Roni came to faith in Yeshua in 1969 while studying industrial design in Johannesburg and went on to earn an MA in Christian Holiness (Manchester), serve as an ordained Anglican minister in South Africa and the UK, pioneer Beit Ariel (South Africa’s first Messianic congregation), and create in oils, acrylics, silk paint and digital media while blogging on Shalom Radio UK. Elisheva, a Montessori‑trained educator, holds degrees in Theology and Pastoral Studies (Manchester) and Practical Theology (Cambridge), has served as an Anglican pastor, retreat leader and lecturer in cross‑cultural ministry across South Africa, Israel, Ghana, Australia, Pakistan, the US and the UK, and brings her passion for photography to their shared life and work in the UK.
Nation 2 Nation
Madeleine Kerzner
Jewish believer in Yeshua, A second generation holocaust surviver, Her father came on the Kindertransport from Vienna, She is Pastor ,Teacher, Radio Broadcaster.... worship leader (2 Albums)
came to faith after a damascus road experience .. blogs & vlogs on jewish feasts of Adonai ..and much more -
Brian Greenaway
Maoz Israel
A journey of discovery that Jesus is Israel’s Messiah
Londoner Brian Greenaway grew up in a loving family very much aware of his Jewish identity – but from a political Zionist rather than a religious point of view.
“I was born in south London in the late 1960s and grew up in a loving family, but without any faith or any kind of religious observance,” Brian told Prophecy Today.
“However, two things greatly impacted me. My father taught me about my Jewish identity, but very much from a political Zionist viewpoint, which gave me a strong link with Israel and the Jewish people. But I was prejudiced against the Arab people as I saw them as trying to destroy us.
“I also hated Christians and churches, and could not even face going into a church. It used to give me shivers and, if I ever saw Christians on TV, I would hurl abuse at them and not want to listen. I didn’t really understand why at the time, but now I realise that it was because of the history of terrible persecution of Jewish people by the Church.
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A Year like no other
7th October 2023
A year like no other, October 7th 2023 so much written and so much to be said about that awful day .
by Gerry Cohen