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17 October 1849 Passing of Frédéric Chopin, Composer, Pianist and Transformer of Musical Language #otdimjh
On this day in 1849, Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin) died in Paris at the age of just thirty-nine. The frail Polish genius, whose heart would later be returned to Warsaw and interred beneath the Church of the … Continue reading
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3 October 2025 British Messianic Jewish Alliance Grieves Heaton Moor Synagogue Attack #otdimjh
BMJA Statement on the Heaton Park Synagogue Attack On Yom Kippur, 2 October 2025, the Jewish community of Manchester was struck by tragedy. Two men, Adrian Daulby (53) and Melvin Cravitz (66), lost their lives when a man drove his … Continue reading
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8th September 2025 Celebrating 100 Years of the International Messianic Jewish Alliance #otdimjh
Celebrating 100 Years of the International Messianic Jewish Alliance On 8th September 1925, Jewish disciples of Yeshua from 18 different countries met in the Wilson Memorial Hall, Islington, to establish the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (now the International Messianic Jewish … Continue reading
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9 August 1942/ 8 August 2025 – Hebrew Catholics in Israel remember Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Jewish philosopher, Carmelite nun, and martyr in Auschwitz #otdimjh
On this day in 1942, Edith Stein—St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross—was murdered in Auschwitz. Born in 1891 to a devout Jewish family, Stein was a brilliant philosopher, a student of Edmund Husserl, and an early phenomenologist. Born on Yom … Continue reading
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1st August 1866 Moses Margoliouth and Tisha B’Av #otdimjh
Today (3 August 2025) is Tisha B’Av, the “Black Fast” of the 9th of Av. We mourn, fast and pray on a day that commemorates a series of national catastrophes, most notably the destruction of the First Temple by the … Continue reading
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10 May 1942: Lev Gillet advises the International Messianic Jewish Alliance #otdimjh
10 May 1942—Amid the darkest days of World War II and before the full horror of the Holocaust was known, the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (today’s International Messianic Jewish Alliance) wrestled with a practical and theological question: Could Jewish disciples of Yeshua … Continue reading
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24 April 1975 – The Hebrew Christian Alliance of America becomes the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America #otdimjh
At the Alliance’s annual conference in Dunedin, Florida, on 24 April 1975, a motion carried—by the votes of a new, younger constituency—that the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America (founded 1915) officially change its name to the “Messianic Jewish Alliance of … Continue reading
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10 April 2025 Recovering the Hidden Remnant: Toward a Messianic Jewish Historiography #otdimjh
With Passover before us it is appropriate to think about the act of remembering that “we were slaves in Egypt and the LORD our God redeemed us with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm from the Land of Bondage”. … Continue reading
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7 April 1891 Birth of Bruno Benfey: A Faithful Witness in the Shadows #otdimjh
Early Life and Ministry Bruno Benfey was born on April 7, 1891 (other sources – September 4 1891), in Rösrath, Germany, into a third-generation family of Jewish descent who had become Protestants. From 1909, Benfey studied theology in Göttingen and … Continue reading
