Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council
Rooted in Torah, instructed by Tradition, faithful to Messiah Yeshua
A series from 2012–2015 profiling the life of MJRC congregations.
by Rabbi Nathan Joiner What’s Cooking? Camp Or L’Dor is a 10-day summer adventure where Jewish life and Messiah Yeshua combine to create an exciting, action-packed, and transforming spiritual experience for Messianic Jewish teens. Every year, Jewish teens fly in from around the country to our serene camp location in the Northeast. In addition to…
by Rabbi Jason Forbes Liturgical worship must employ the art of blending kevah with kavvanah, a pairing of order and holy intention. Our worship spaces must be holy spaces where we all pray in unity, yet have the ability to let our intention, orkavvanah, be led by divine inspiration. This is why it has been…
by Rabbi Joshua Brumbach This past February, Ahavat Zion celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special gala dinner featuring special guests, joyous music and historical trivia and insights into the congregation’s past forty years. This momentous occasion brought together current and past members, as well as other special guests, for an evening of recollection, celebration…
by Rabbi Jason Forbes We never could have foreseen the impact a single local synagogue program could have on so many communities… In 2010 our community developed the Riverton Mussar program. The concept was formed out of years of questioning how better to be a light of Mashiach Yeshua in a very practical and everyday…
Remembering Yeshua Together by Rabbi Mark Kinzer On the night before his arrest and martyrdom, in the context of a Passover (or Passover-like) meal, Yeshua commanded his disciples to remember his atoning sacrifice through a ritual act. The early followers of Yeshua obeyed this commandment of their Master, and celebrated regularly a ritual meal in…
Despite the Jewish people being spread throughout the world, and speaking many languages, one of the things that has kept us together is the Hebrew language. Because of it we have been able to stay engaged, and connected with one another over vast distances of space and time. The corpus of learning that has come…