SPECIAL EDITION | THE CHOSEN PEOPLE | 2 SPECIAL EDITION Volume XXIII, Issue 8 International Headquarters: 241 East 51st Street New York, NY 10022 212-223-2252 www.chosenpeople.com In Australia: Celebrate Messiah P.O. Box 304 Caulfield South, VIC 3162 61-03-9563-5544 www.celebratemessiah.com.au In Canada: Dufferin-Lawrence PO Box 58103 Toronto, Ontario M6A 3C8 416-250-0177 www.chosenpeople.ca In the United Kingdom: P.O. Box 47871 Golders Green, London NW11 1AL 020-8455-7911 www.chosenpeople.org.uk This newsletter is published monthly by Chosen People Ministries. Visit us on the web at: www.chosenpeople.com. Our Spanish website is www.puebloelegido.com. Scripture is taken from the New American Standard Bible Version. All rights reserved. PRINTED IN THE USA. Every October we prepare a special newsletter for our friends who might not yet believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah. We hope that you will pass your copy along to a friend or loved one who is not a follower of the Messiah yet! If you are that friend or loved one, I hope from the bottom of my heart that you will read this volume and be challenged to consider whether or not Yeshua is the promised Messiah of Israel. I am the president of Chosen People Ministries, an organization founded in 1894 by a Hungarian rabbi who became a follower of Yeshua the Messiah just a few years earlier. Rabbi Leopold Cohn left his native Hungary to seek a better life for himself and his family in what so many Jewish people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries called “the Golden Land”— the United States of America. Jewish people have always had a love affair with America because of the incredible freedoms that our country has nurtured and cherished, especially the freedom of religious expression. In Hungary, it would not have been easy for Rabbi Cohn to hear about Jesus. Although he was born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home and ordained a rabbi, he did hear a little about Jesus from Christians in Hungary. However, it wasn’t until he came to the United States that he heard a sermon by a Polish Messianic Jew who was preaching the Good News of the Messiah at a Dutch Reformed Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This young preacher eventually gave Rabbi Cohn a copy of a Yiddish New Testament, which he read very carefully. The rabbi had many questions and spent months discussing them with this Polish Messianic Jewish preacher. Within a year, Rabbi Cohn accepted Yeshua as his Messiah. This new belief was very difficult for him as his Jewish community ostracized him and his wife even threatened to leave him. She and their youngest son, Joseph, were still in Hungary when Rabbi Cohn came to faith. However, God was merciful and she also came to know Yeshua as her Messiah while he was attending a theological training course in Edinburgh, Scotland. Together, Rabbi Cohn and his wife traveled back to Brooklyn where they established the work of Chosen People Ministries, which I have the privilege of leading today. I am so grateful that someone took the time to speak with Rabbi Cohn about Yeshua and patiently answered his questions. I have been a believer in Jesus for more than 45 years and I still have questions about the Bible! After all, if we stop asking questions, then we stop learning and when we stop learning, well…it’s the beginning of the end! I meet many Jewish people who have questions DR. MITCH GLASER PRESIDENT of CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES about God, the Messiah, and the Bible. They want to know how it is even possible for a Jewish person to believe that Yeshua is the Messiah. I enjoy engaging in these conversations. For this newsletter, we have selected a half-dozen of the most commonly-asked questions I hear from Jewish people. I hope you will read and appreciate what we have put together, but I also hope you will develop questions of your own and then feel free to ask them. We would love to answer your questions either by email or phone. Like the wonderful man
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