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7 October 2025 – Two Years On #otdimjh

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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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17 March 2025 Schaffer’s “Unorthodox History” Reviewed #otdimjh

“Most controversially of all, I have given a chapter to Messianic Jews” Gavin Schaffer is Professor of Modern British History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on race, ethnicity and immigrant history. When … Continue reading

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1st January 1866 Carl Schwartz launches “The Scattered Nation” #otdimjh

On 1st January, 1866, the first issue of The Scattered Nation was published under the leadership of prominent Hebrew Christian Carl Schwartz, who founded the Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain also in 1866. The quarterly periodical became a significant … Continue reading

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20 January 1889 Birth of Herbert Danby, Christian Hebraist and Friend of the Jewish People #otdimjh

Herbert Danby (20 January 1889 – 29 March 1953) was a Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism at the start of the twentieth century. He was the Regius professor of Hebrew … Continue reading

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21 September 1771 Birth of Joseph Frey, founder of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews #otdimjh

Life Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey (1771–1850) was born in Germany and became a Lutheran in 1798. Trained in Berlin and later in London, he became deeply involved in witness and evangelism. Frey’s background as a Jewish disciple of Yeshua … Continue reading

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1 January 1897 “To the Jew first” – Hudson Taylor sends donation to John Wilkinson #otdimjh

Happy New Year to all our readers! “On this day in Messianic Jewish history” enters its 10th year – and more than 700 posts. We bring you significant events in the lives of Jewish disciples in Yeshua. How has the … Continue reading

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4 June 2008 CBN News Reports on Opposition to Messianic Jews #otdimj

Turning Up the ‘Heat’ on Messianic JewsBy Chris Mitchell Mideast Bureau Chief, CBN News CBNNews.com – JERUSALEM, Israel – In the latest in a growing number of incidents against Israeli Messianic Jewish believers — Jews who believe that Yeshua (Jesus, in Hebrew) is … Continue reading

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15 May 1948 Fledgling State of Israel now home to Messianic Jews #otdimjh

From the article “Hebrew Christianity in the Holy Land from 1948 to the Present” by  Ole Chr. M. Kvarme [p.43ff, footnotes omitted]: A celebratory crowd outside the Tel Aviv Museum to hear the Declaration David Ben-Gurion declaring independence beneath a large portrait … Continue reading

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8 January 1917 Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points Acknowledges Principle of Self-Determination in Middle East #otdimjh #onthisday

In 1917-18, combined British and Arab forces ended over 400 years of Turkis administration in various parts of the Arab world, including Palestine. The nationalities in these territories, stated Wilson in his famous “Fourteen Points” speech of January 1917, “should be … Continue reading

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