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7 April 1807 Ridley Haim Herschel born #otdimjh

7 April 1807 Birth of Ridley Haim Herschel #otdimjh

Ridley Haim Herschell was founder of the British Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Jews (now CWI) and the Evangelical Alliance. Herschell was also one of the founders of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain (now BMJA) – come and celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Letter of Invitation to found the Alliance on 25th…

24 August 1870 Death of Karl Solomon Schwartz, First Chairman of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain #otdimjh

Next year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain, now known as the British Messianic Jewish Alliance (BMJA). Today we celebrate one of its founders, a great preacher, man of letters and Jewish believer in Yeshua.

Schwartz, Rev. Dr. Karl (Solomon), was born at Meseritz in Posen in 1817. His father, Isaac Schwartz was a merchant, and…

Talk given by Rev. Harcourt Samuel, O.B.E. (Office of the Order of the British Empire, and the IHCS Executive Secretary) at the centenary celebration of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain (now British Messianic Jewish Alliance).

[Harcourt Samuel was the son of Elijah Bendor-Samuel, Director of the Messianic Testimony after David Baron. Harcourt was General Secretary of the…

Noting the existence of previous Hebrew Christian brotherhoods and other groups of Jewish Christians that met in the 19th century, Hugh Schonfield observes:

But while these movements have interest as expressing the need of Jewish Christians for mutual dependence both in prayer and charity, they have no claim to be regarded as forerunners of a revived Jewish Christianity.

Haim Ridley Herschell

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Henry Aaron Stern was born in Unterreichenbach, near Gelnhausen. He was an Anglican missionary and captive for four years in Abyssinia.

He was the youngest son of Aaron Stern, a Jew, and Hannah his wife. He was born in the Duchy of Hessen-Kassel. He received his education at a school in Frankfurt, to which place his parents had removed when he was young. His father destined him for the medical…