Originally Posted by Qnts2
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1809 - The London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews founded
1813 – 41 Jewish believers form a fellowship in London, Beni Abraham
1823 – A group of Jewish believers and their supporters attempt to purchase 20,000 acres in southern New Jersey for a communal farm to house persecuted Jewish believers.
1840 – Sixty prominent Jewish believers in England publish a defense of the Jewish community against the false charge of the “blood libel”
1842 – Jewish believer Michael Solomon Alexander establishes a major protestant church in Jerusalem
1866 - The Hebrew Christian Alliance was formed in London.
1885 – Joseph Rabinowitz begins a genuinely Messianic Jewish, independent Jewish congregation in Kishinev
1885 – Jacob Freshman establishes a group of Jewish believers with Presbyterian help in New York City
1894 – Rabbi Leopold Cohn establishes a Jewish outreach in Brooklyn that would eventually become The American Board of Missions to the Jews, now known as Chosen People Ministries.
1915 – The Hebrew Christian Alliance of America (HCAA) was established with Sabbati Rohold, born into an Orthodox Jewish home in Jewish Palestine as its first President. The “driving motive” of the early HCAA was deemed to be evangelism. In 1917, the HCAA began publishing the HCA Quarterly with a Yiddish supplement. The early HCAA was a fellowship of Jewish believers, and issued statements viewing with caution or outright opposition the establishment of Congregations that were specifically intended to maintain a Jewish culture. HCAA members were generally allied with Protestant Christian churches, although a minority within the HCAA favored a Messianic Jewish stance.
1920’s - The HCAA took part in the fight against rising anti-Semitism, strongly denouncing Henry Ford’s distribution of the hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.
1930’s - The HCAA protested the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, and called attention to the plight of the “one and three-quarter million Christians of Jewish descent, who were all treated as Jews while the Jews of Germany considered them Christians”. They had trouble finding relief. The HCAA helped many of them to relocate, and continued to aid victims of the Holocaust after World War II.
1934 - The First Hebrew Christian Church of Chicago was established by Presbyterians. It had a Christian worship service with a Jewish “flavor,” and was headed by David Bronstein. A similar congregation exists in Los Angeles.
1939 – On the even of WWII, over a million people of Jewish origin are attending churches & fellowships in Europe
1938 thru 1945 – Between 100,000 and 250,000 Jewish believers die during The Holocaust.
1950’s – Congregations and stable fellowships of believers practicing Jewish culture exist in Baltimore, Detroit, Toronto, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.
1966 – 1968 - Under the auspices of the HCAA, the Young Hebrew Christian Alliance (YHCA) was started by Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Manny Brotman & Joe Finkelstein. Holding its first separate conference in 1970, they chose Messiah College in Pennsylvania for their meeting place. The entire Alliance would eventually meet there.
1970’s – This time period would see very large numbers of Jewish young people coming to faith
1971 - Martin Chernoff, a Jewish believer and Assemblies of God pastor, became the President of the HCAA. Chernoff would go on to lead Beth Yeshua Congregation of Philadelphia. His Pentecostal background influenced Messianic Judaism, and that of his sons Joel and David would continue to shape the Alliance for decades to come.
1973 – Moishe Rosen establishes ‘Jews for Jesus’, an evangelistic mission outreach.
1975 – In a divided vote, the HCAA voted to change its’ name to the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA). It signaled an intentional move toward unique self-identity for Jewish believers, semi-separate from the larger church body.
1977 – Ariel Ministries founded by Arnold Fruchtenbaum with dual goals of Jewish evangelism & discipleship.
1979 - The Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC) was formed with Daniel Juster as President.
1980’s – Expansion of the Messianic Movement, growing use of American synagogue culture
1998 - Nazarene Yisrael Alliance is formed as an umbrella for groups teaching the “Two-House” false doctrine that Gentile believers in their groups are of the Tribe of Ephraim. Many in these groups reject the teaching of the Trinity and promote obligatory Torah observance. They influence over 20% of Congregations and recruit deceptively using various names. Notables include: Michael Rood, Marshall Koniuchowsky, Batya Wooten, Ed Chumney, Monte Judah, Brian Samtur and James Trimm, who all maintain separate organizations. The Internet fuels their popularity.
2003 – The Association of Messianic Congregations (AMC) founded by ‘Grace oriented’ Jewish believers who cite the “need for a new association of messianic congregations, those who would continue to hold to a messiah centered, joyfully Jewish, grace embracing messianic Judaism.”
www.MessianicAssociation.org
Gxg (G²);60539337 said:
Joel Chernoff, who was one of the Pioneers of the Messianic Jewish movement, spoke on the issues raised by Ariel ministries back in 2008 when discussing the reality of the ways the Messianic Jewish movement developed....as seen here.
Television - Programs - Transcript - Messianic 1: The Messianic Jewish Movement..." /
Television - Programs - Transcript - Messianic 2: Messianic Jewish ..and he also shared way back in 2006 as well:
Another one of the Messianic Jewish members on the board
mpossoff noted before how he was associated with Messianic teacher David Chernoff...with with David noting many of the same things as brother Joel Chernoff--as seen here at
Congregation Beth Yeshua. As he noted best:
Is it Jewish to Believe in Jesus?
To some, the concept of a Jew believing in Yeshua seems to be a contradiction. The reason is, many people have a dichotomy set up in their minds. On the one hand, you have Jews and Judaism and on the other hand, Christians and Christianity. You are either one or the other...so the thinking goes.
But this simple dichotomy is in reality not so simple. If we go back 2000 years we find that Yeshua was a Jew living in a Jewish land among Jewish people. All the apostles were Jewish as well as the writers of the New Covenant and for many years this faith in Yeshua was strictly a Jewish one. From the Book of Acts and other historical evidence, many believe that in the first century there were literally hundreds of thousands of Messianic Jews (Acts 2:41, 2:47, 4:4, 6:7, 9:31, 21:20). In addition, there were Messianic Synagogues scattered throughout the Roman Empire and beyond (James 1:1, 2:2).
These first century Messianic Jews remained highly loyal to their people. Whether it was Jewish to believe in Yeshua was never an issue. Of course it was Jewish! What else could it be? The big question back then was whether Yeshua had been sent for the Gentiles also. .
Still as valid today as it was decades ago..and that understanding has pretty much remained constant for years since, even today. Pretty much goes right back into the bottom line reality of what has often been noted multiple times over the decades/accepted by most Messianic Jews, as it concerns the entire intent behind MJism in reaching the Jewish people but not necessarily considering itself as disconnected from Christianity...and instead seeing itself as a restoration of Biblical Jewish Christianity, to be exact..