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12 January 1903 Birth of Theodor Carlebach, Farmer, Pastor and Vicar #otdimjh

Theodor Carlebach came from a well-respected Jewish family in Germany, which spread in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Ernst Carlebach (1838-1923) moved from Mannheim to Heidelberg in 1863 and founded a book and art antiquarian business there.  His son Rudolf (1870-1917) came to Mannheim as a notary in 1900 and married Lili Goldmann in 1901.  They had two sons: Theodor and Alfred (born February 4,…

23 March 1831 Death of Hebrew Scholar Giovanni De Rossi #otdimjh

23 March 1831 Death of Christian Hebraist, Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi #otdimjh

Jews, Christians and Messianic Jews owe a profound debt of gratitiude to the life and scholarship of this great student of Hebrew.

Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (October 25, 1742, Castelnuovo Nigra, Piedmont – March 23, 1831, Parma) was an Italian Christian Hebraist. He studied in Ivrea and Turin. In October 1769, he…

11 April 1820 Pioneer Aaron Stern #otdimjh

11 April 1820 Birth of Aaron Stern, pioneer missionary explorer and founder of the Hebrew Christian Alliance #otdimjh

  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…

10 April 1985 LCJE debate on Messianic Judaism #otdimjh

10 April 1985 Bill Currie and Rich Nichol on Messianic Judaism at LCJE Conference

The Lasusanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism -North America chapter – devoted time at its conference in Dallas for two papers on Messianic Judaism –  from William Currie of the American Messianic Fellowship (now “Life in Messiah”) and from Rich Nichol, Messianic Rabbi of Ruach Israel, Boston.

Currie’s paper rep…

9 April 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer executed #otdimjh

9 April 1945 Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for his resistance to Hitler and protection of Jews #otdimjh

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person,…

8 April 1927 Warsaw/Budapest Conferences on Jewish Evangelism

8 April 1927 “The Christian Approach to the Jew” Conferences in Warsaw and Budapest #otdimjh

90 years ago an important conference on Jewish evangelism was held in Budapest. Indeed two important conferences were held in 1927: one in Budapest (April 7-13) and one in (April 19-25). Kai Kjaer-Hansen gives some glimpses from them.

“The Eighth International Jewish Missionary Conference was held in…

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…

6 April 1903 Pogrom scatters Kishinev Messianic Congregation #otdimjh

6 April 1903 Pogrom in Kishinev scatters remnant of Joseph Rabinowitz’s Messianic Congregation #otdimjh

The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, which was back then part of the Bessarabia province of Imperial Russia (currently Chişinău is the capital of independent Moldova).  It started on April 6 and lasted until April 7, 1903.The riot started after a Christian…