Mazel Tov! You've Found Jesus! 
"Mommy, why don't we believe in Jesus?"
My question startled my Jewish family. We'd recently watched Ben Hur and Spartacus, and the movies had kindled my desire to know more about Jesus. The people at my temple acknowledged Jesus as some sort of radical rabbi, but my mom didn't know if she believed in his existence. My dad wasn't even sure God existed, let alone Jesus! The answer I received from my ...
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Sheryl, author of article
Hi - I just noticed my article on being a Jewish beliver is still here, but my comment answering "Vi" in 2008 didn't get posted somehow. Vi, just in case you return...I was bat matzvahed, and when my article ran in Today's Christian Woman magazine in 1997, it was printed as such. I believe the word "bar" is an online printing error.
Vi
Er. I have to ask. Why was a Jewish girl bar mitzvahed? I thought that the Bar Mitzvah was for boys and the Bat Mitzvah was for girls.
Elana-Beth
Thank you for sharing your story. I too am Jewish by blood and accepted the Lord in 1997. I have been so blessed since recognizing the Lord as my Savior. My family has accepted my beliefs although my grandma never understood why considering I graduated from Hebrew High School, had my Bat Mitzvah and was a co-cantor in the synagogue. My testimony is not as calm and tranquil as yours was but your story is a true inspiration. I am glad to see others willing to accept being Jewish even as a Christian.
Kathleen Lupole
This was a EXCELLENT article! I am not Jewish, but my first husband was. His family was like your's. I am now a "Born Again Christian" married to a wonderful man. Like your mother-in-law, my own mother-in-law had been praying for my husband and I for years to find the Lord. Well, we walked into a little church this past Easter, and nobody knew who we were, but when they found out who my husband's mother was, they knew very well! Like your church, our new church had been praying for "Larry & Kathy" for years, but did not know us. It is so strange that we just happened to pick that church as his family does not go there regular. The pastor of the church is a friend of my husband's family, and we met her twice and felt she was special. So we felt we HAD to go to her church and things would change for us. And it has! I admit, I am new at this. But my huband was raised this way so he knows the answers to my questions and it has brought us closer. Now Jesus is the center of our life!
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