Bagels and Blessings
243 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsProclaiming the Jewishness of the Gospel!
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Lori Kate Lowenhar again!
April 27, 2024 21:44Lori returns to Bagels and Blessings to discuss life in Israel in the midst of the current conflict. Originally from Elkhart, Indiana, Lori grew up playing the flute and clarinet. She graduated with a Music Education degree from Cedarville University and began traveling internationally performing Jewish Gospel Music with the Liberated Wailing Wall. Upon moving to Israel, her musical training allowed her to teach a variety of instruments to students in various schools in the Jezre'el Valley. ...
Eric Tokajer - 7th Time!
April 20, 2024 18:59How wonderful to have Rabbi Eric on the show again! Rabbi Eric was raised in a traditional Jewish home. After his bar mitzvah, he began to study the Hebrew Scriptures more closely which brought many questions to his mind. Questions like if a sacrifice had to be made once a year on Yom Kippur to cover the sins of Israel from year to year how were those sins covered now. When he was unable to find answers from the different rabbis that he asked, he became an agnostic. While serving in the US...
Sharon Settel Interview
April 13, 2024 19:20What a joy to interview Sharon Settel, widow of Jonathan Settel. I especially loved this show, hope you will enjoy it for years to come! Sharon Settel was born and raised in Miami, Florida into a Bible believing family. She studied and worked in the medical field for fifteen years. Sharon met her husband by divine appointment at the age of 19-years-old. They married in 1980 and were blessed with three beautiful children and four grandchildren. Sharon worked and traveled with Jonathan for ov...
Dawn Reaves and Heather Frykberg
April 06, 2024 19:04I met Dawn and Heather last year at the Messiah Conference. Heather and Dawn are Messianic believers and have collaborated on a Trilogy being published by Olive Press Publisher. Their books have a very Hebraic understanding. The 1st book, "Slivers of Hell-Mosaic Steppingstones to Heaven" reveals the ancient pictographs of Hebrew that reveal the plan of salvation for all mankind. The pictographs are woven in the three realms between earth, heaven and hell. The second book, "More than Hea...
Ben Volman Returns
March 30, 2024 19:32It’s been several years since Ben Volman was on Bagels and Blessings. It was great to have him on the show again. Ben Volman is the Canadian Regional Director of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations. He came to faith in Yeshua while he was a university student in philosophy and was a founding member of Canada's first Messianic Jewish congregation. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. Ben has had a highly varied career...
Debora Weiss Interview
March 23, 2024 19:07Debora is a lover of Yeshua and was born and raised both Catholic and 7th Day Adventist in São Paulo, Brazil, where she started her career as a pharmacist and researcher. Her great great grandfather was Jewish. She discovered Messianic Judaism after her son showed interest in the Old Testament scriptures. They started attending Beth Yeshua in Philadelphia. In the late 90’s, she met Tom in a conference in the United States. They have been married for 25 years.
Phillip Cohen Interview
March 16, 2024 19:38Phillip Cohen describes growing up Jewish in a strongly anti-Semitic culture and what it’s like “crossing the line” to giving his life to Jesus. It has been a long journey that is not over yet. Crushed by a violent, anti-Semitic world and a troubled alcoholic father, Phillip Cohen begins searching early in life for healing and love. He grew up in inner-city Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami before wandering around in three countries, searching for a life that matters. This long, difficult yet ...
Ted VanLandeghem Interview
March 09, 2024 20:26Here’s some info about my interesting guest: A Believer in Jesus, who grew up in Arnold Missouri, Ted VanLandeghem is the CEO & Founder of TheReadyBag.Com /Goshen Kingdom Solutions/Kingdom Tactical Advisors which seeks to provide emergency preparedness training, community, solutions & tools to the body of Christ. Ted also serves as a speaker for Ancient Hebrew Scroll Project. The Scroll Project is the only complete set of Old Testament Manuscripts in Ancient Scroll form in the world that can...
Faith Crowley Interview
March 02, 2024 21:44Faith has enjoyed worshiping the Lord in Messianic Judaism for 45 years, though she is not Jewish. She first realized the Lord’s love for her when she was 19 years old. The Lord brought her to Congregation Beth Yeshua in Philly, in 1978, and she was blessed to worship under the loving care of her shepherd at that time, Martin Chernoff with his wife, Yohanna Naomi Chernoff. And now, almost 76 years old, Faith is blessed to be under the shepherding of their son, Rabbi David Chernoff and his wi...
Jacob Cohen Interview
February 24, 2024 20:08Jacob Cohen was born in Israel, immigrated to the United States when he was five years old and was raised in Brooklyn, NY in a traditional Jewish home. When he was ten, he attended Hebrew school at a conservative synagogue and certain passages in the Old Testamentstartled Jacob: “What’s Jesus doing in my Hebrew Bible?” Jacob assumed he was mistaken, after all, Jewish scholars would notice something this important. But is it possible. . .? When Jacob was in his mid-twenties, he reexamined t...
Joshua Brumbach Returns
February 17, 2024 22:01Rabbi Joshua Brumbach is the Senior Rabbi of Simchat Yisrael in West Haven, CT and serves as adjunct faculty at Messianic Jewish Theological Institute (MJTI) and The King's University. He is an accredited Jewish Educator, studied in an Orthodox yeshiva in Europe, and is ordained by the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations and the MJRC. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in early rabbinic literature at Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership, holds an MA in rabbinic writin...
Catherine Wriston Interview
February 10, 2024 22:00Catherine Wriston is the Praise & Worship Leader at Brit Ahm Messianic Synagogue in Pensacola, FL. She was raised Southern Baptist and found Messianic Judaism when God led her to it as a college student. She's a writer, an artist, and now a blessed wife and mother. Catherine and her husband, Jonathan (the Assistant Rabbi at Brit Ahm), live with their wonderful little boy, Eliezer, in Pace, FL.
Dr. Ivan Paul Mehosky
February 03, 2024 20:10Dr Mehosky is the author of “The Story of a Soldier” about his dad as a paratrooper during WW II. He is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church and holds a Th.D. from Chesapeake Bible College & Seminary, and is the Dean and Professor of Messianic Jewish Studies at CBCS. Dr. Mehosky and his wife Charlotte live in North East, Maryland. They raised two wonderful children who are both married. They are blessed with 8 grandchildren.
Lydia Jacobs Interview
January 27, 2024 21:30I enjoyed my interview with Lydia Jacobs. She is another person I saw at the Messiah conference in July. Lydia Jacobs is a Jewish believer in Jesus. Both her parents are also Jewish believers and she was raised in a Messianic Jewish home in Upstate New York. Growing up, she attended Shema Yisrael in Rochester and Brith Hadoshah in Buffalo. For four years she traveled with the Liberated Wailing Wall, a traveling music missionary team through Jews for Jesus. Lydia is currently a special edu...
Amy Stewart Interview
January 20, 2024 20:18Amy has been a lover of Israel and the Jewish people all her life and longs to see them come to know their true Messiah. She now serves as the worship director of Or HaOlam Messianic Synagogue in Overland Park Kansas.
The Whittens
January 13, 2024 20:06I had a great interview with Baht Rivka and George Whitten. George Whitten is Founder and Director of leading pro-Israel Christian news website, worthynews.com and the “Worthy Brief”, a devotional/news brief with a daily readership of over 35,000. Focusing on Israel, persecution, prophecy, outreach, and discipleship, Worthy News has reached millions in over 120 countries since 1999. George is a visionary, journalist, astute observer and advocate for Israel. He brings a fresh, insightful ...
The Return of Anthony Cardinale
January 06, 2024 21:01What fun to reconnect with my friend Anthony! Anthony Cardinale is an award-winning Christian Zionist who began writing about Israel and the Jewish people long before discovering his own Jewish bloodlines. A college instructor and member of the National Association of Scholars, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize three times during his years as a reporter with the Buffalo News. Anthony has written four books and has written religious articles for the Messianic Times, Jewish Voice Today,...
The Smiling Sheep and Ethel Chadwick
December 30, 2023 21:44Today’s interview was taped at the Messiah Conference this past July. Marc Vidito, from "The Smiling Sheep" interviewed me, I interviewed him as well and we also chatted with Becca Chefran from "Stones of Witness." Marc's Bio: Marc has been in ministry since 1995 serving the Young Messianic Jewish Alliance as conference planner, worship ministry coordinator, worship leader, percussionist, speaker, and youth mentor. He has co-led worship and the high school youth ministry with his bride, Da...
Crystal Buchhalter Interview
December 23, 2023 22:49Crystal grew up in Detroit, MI singing choral, traditional Jewish, Tin Pan Alley, musical theatre and liturgical music in her synagogue under the apprenticeship of well known Cantor, Harold Orbach; at which time she also started performing around Metro Detroit. She then began studying classical voice at Interlochen Fine Arts Camp where she first considered a career as a classical artist and Cantorial Soloist. She has a degree in classical voice from Oakland University in Detroit and has sinc...
Jamie Ellen DeOliveira
December 16, 2023 20:07Jamie Ellen De Oliveira is a Jewish Born, Messiah Yeshua Believing, Messianic Recording Artist! Born to a mom that was on Broadway, and a dad who was a music publisher, the writing seemed to be on the wall! Before coming to faith in 1981, Jamie performed in various venues in the U.S. singing Musical Theatre, Opera, and even traveled with The Fred Waring Singers! In 1984, Jamie traveled as the Soprano Soloist for a Christian touring group called the "Spurrlows". Jamie Ellen has been a fea...
Jocelyn and Corey Brown
December 10, 2023 00:16This sweet couple attend Shema Yisrael Congregation here in Rochester, NY and it was a delight to interview them. Jocelyn and Corey Brown, a married couple like so many, both decorate the Christmas tree and light the menorah, raising their Jewish children to develop their spirituality within the Messianic culture. Jocelyn was brought up in a secular Humanist Jewish family. Corey’s aunt and grandmother were the only ones to expose him to the Christian teachings of the bible as a child. Now ...
Yochanan Marcellino Returns
December 02, 2023 20:33It was great reconnecting with Yochanan Marcellino at the Messiah Conference this past July. Here’s a little background on him: Yochanan Marcellino was the son of legendary Motown A&R producer Jerry Marcellino (Michael Jackson, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Lionel Richie & the Commodores and Smokey Robinson). Yochanan Marcellino was also the founder of FM Management, managing such artists as Kerry Livgren of Kansas ("Dust in the Wind"), Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes, Kyle Henderson of The Pro...
Simeon Greenberg Interview
November 25, 2023 20:21What fun to interview Simeon recently! Here's some background: Simeon Greenberg grew up in ministry with his family, beginning in his father’s synagogue as a volunteer and worship leader until becoming the videographer for the Tree of Life Bible Society. Simeon has spent the past 6 years recording and editing hundreds of videos full of biblical content. Simeon is happily married to his wife of three years and now works as the Media Manager for the TLV Bible Society, distributing biblical s...
Stephen Segal Interview
November 18, 2023 20:02Stephen grew up in a very Jewish section of Boston was Bar Mitzvah at 13. He attended synagogue but knew nothing of the God of Israel. Stephen’s first occasion to have real Jewish pride was when he had his first work study job during the summer of 67 working with a couple of other Jewish students at Boston State hospital during the 6 day war. The next occasion was around 1970 at Northeastern University when he was approached by an older hip guy who worked with Avi Brickner who told him that ...
Josh Turnil interview
November 11, 2023 20:25Joshua Turnil is the director of Jews for Jesus in France and Switzerland, overseeing the work in francophone Europe. Joshua was born in New York, and has a bachelor’s degree in French literature. His wife, Delphine, who is French, also serves with Jews for Jesus. They have three children: Ilan, Lilya, and Levia. Joshua has participated in, and produced five music albums, as well as video projects such as the life story of resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor, Ruth Gottlieb. Joshua is ...
Dr. Walter Kaiser Interview
November 04, 2023 19:30 Audio/mpegDr. Kaiser is a retired theology professor and old testament scholar. He taught at Wheaton Graduate School and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has written about 90 books on the Old Testament and loves Israel and the Jewish people. Dr. Kaiser has 6 more books waiting for publication and he has led over 25 tours to Israel. He considers himself an "armchair archeologist," having never actually participated in a dig. Dr. Kaiser is a respected author, speaker and Bible teacher. Curre...
Rabbi Ron Cantor Returns
October 28, 2023 20:06I had a chance to speak with Rabbi Ron a few months ago. Here is some info about him: Rabbi Ron serves as President of Shelanu TV, the only 24.7, Hebrew language TV channel sharing the message of Yeshua. He also serves as the Israel Director for God TV, where he hosts two TV shows—Out of Zion and Get Real. Ron was born into a Jewish home, circumcised and Bar Mitzvah'd, but he did not know God! He realized at age 17, there must be more. This led him on a journey where he discovered that Y...
Lori Kate Lowenhar returns
October 21, 2023 21:49It's been many years since I last interviewed Lori. She is an amazing woman and will share how life is in Israel since the tragic events that recently took place. Plus we will hear some of her music from One Lev, her wonderful singing group. Originally from Elkhart, Indiana, Lori grew up playing the flute and clarinet. She graduated with a Music Education degree from Cedarville University and began traveling internationally performing Jewish Gospel Music with the Liberated Wailing Wall. U...
John Ross Interview
October 14, 2023 21:48Rabbi John and his wife Becky have been members of Congregation Beth Messiah since 1994. John became the worship leader and youth pastor in 1995 and served in that role for 23 years. After that he transitioned to a role as a teaching elder before becoming the congregational leader in 2021. John and Becky have four grown children and one grandchild. John received his education from Houston Baptist University (B.S. in Biology and Theology), Masters International University of Divinity (Doctor ...
Mary Rose Schneider Interview
October 07, 2023 22:13I met Mary at the Messiah Conference this past July. She is a lovely lady! Mary Rose Schneider is a born-again believer in Yeshua who is working on making her life a praise to God. As a music teacher for 27 years, she works with highschoolers with varying challenges. She is a Klezmer clarinetist who has played with other Klezmer musicians from all over the world. She has a daughter, who is married, and is a photographer.
Gay Block Interview
September 30, 2023 19:18Gay was raised in a Jewish and when she asked her orthodox grandmother about Yeshua, she was smacked in the face. She had no clue that there was a God that cared to speak to us! However, after losing a five year old daughter at 37 years old, the Lord revealed himself to her in miraculous ways, and her life has been totally different ever since. This program also has special Sukkot music and info about the holiday.
Pastor Greg Stone Interview
September 23, 2023 19:04Pastor Greg is the Director of Jewish Ministries at Gateway Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Pastor Greg is a Jewish believer who accepted Yeshua almost 32 years ago. He has taken special joy in teaching the church and community about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. "Many people see me as an 'Old Testament' scholar," Stone said. "Really I am about the bridge between the two testaments.” Saturday’s broadcast also provides information on Yom Kippur and special music.
Rick Fisher Returns
September 16, 2023 19:26It was great seeing Rick at the Messiah Conference! Rick Fisher is a 76 yr old man that was raised in a Jewish home, attended Hebrew School, was Bar Mitzvah and did a year towards confirmation before he got tired of all of it because it was curtailing his social life. Rick did not begin actively searching for G-d until his early 40s. He found Yeshua and for the last 33 years, he has been privileged to serve Him as a worship leader in Davidic dance (among other things) at Congregation Beth Y...
Dawn Bell Interview
September 09, 2023 22:30Dawn Bell was born in a Gentile home and became a believer at an early age. Later on after starting her career as an airline pilot she met Joe Bell, fell in love and married. The Bells served with Jews for Jesus on the Liberated Wailing Wall for 2 years and then moved back to Dawn’s home town where they started a congregation, and a bagel business. She currently serves with Rabi Joe at Ari Yehudah Messic Congregation as Rebbetzin and worship leader while working as a 737 pilot.
Rabbi Michael Oyler
September 02, 2023 19:17Rabbi Michael grew up in Ohio and accepted an invitation to receive Yeshua from Reverend Curt Thomas in May,1988. Rabbi nurtured his commitment to Yeshua at Cathedral of Life under the ministry of Bishop C. Herschel Gammill and Pastor Dana Gammill. Approximately a year after earning his degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, Rabbi Oyler began a three year internship under Rabbi Murray Silberling of Beth Emunah Messianic Congregation in Agoura Hills, CA and returned to Ohio in April of 199...
Rabbi Greg Hershberg
August 27, 2023 00:10Rabbi Greg Hershberg was born in New York City and raised in Orthodox Judaism. In 1989, he married Bernadette and while on his honeymoon in Israel had a visitation from the Lord that turned his heart to serving God.In 1992, Rabbi Greg became involved in the Messianic Jewish Movement and was ordained through the International Association of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS). He became the leader of Beth Judah Messianic Congregation. In 2002, the Lord moved Rabbi Greg and his fami...
Rabbi Henry Morse
August 20, 2023 16:57Henry M. Morse is an ordained Messianic Rabbi with a degree in Bible and Theology from Central Bible College in Springfield, MO. Formally known as “The Great Benafucci,” Rabbi Henry did acrobatic tricks and rode a unicycle to reach many young people. He has been in full time ministry for over 40 years; serving as youth minister, evangelist, missionary and congregational leader. Henry has ministered in twenty countries and 45 states. He has authored 2 books. Henry lives in Stoughton, MA, wit...
Brian Slater Returns!
August 12, 2023 20:35It’s always a pleasure to chat with my dear friend Brian Slater. Here is his bio: Brian is a Messianic believer who lives in Israel. Brian is CEO/Director of Abundant Bread of Salvation and has managed and established several others of the same works in Tel-Aviv. He has also established an additional Food Pantry in the center of Netanya that serves many Holocaust Survivors amongst the 350 families he serves on a monthly basis. This same facility now also houses the ministry headquarters. H...
Valerie Long Interview
August 05, 2023 19:26Valerie grew up in a Baptist family in an Italian Catholic neighborhood. She invited Yeshua into her heart in the 70s, during the Jesus Revolution. The Lord helped her through a broken engagement, later she met her Jewish husband Lou in 1985. They married at a chapel at Brown University in 1988. In 1998 they got involved in Messianic Judaism after Valerie’s brother sent them some information. Her husband heard Stan Telchin's testimony about finding the Jewish Jesus and he was very touche...
Kassia Pereira Interview
July 29, 2023 20:13What a blessing to meet Kassia at the women’s retreat this past April. Since childhood Kassia has had a hunger and curiosity to know God. She found Jesus reading the Gospel, or actually He found her. The Bible became a passion and the people in the Bible became her people, her friends, brothers and sisters. Their lives became her inspiration. Deep inside Shabbat had always been a mystery and when someone told her she could not teach Hebrew because she is a woman, Adonai led her to Congreg...
John Kanter Interview
July 22, 2023 21:31John Kanter was born in Los Angeles to Jewish parents of Russian ancestry. At age 16, he trusted Yeshua (Jesus), the Messiah of Israel, for forgiveness of sin and eternal life. John has been involved in Messianic ministry for over 30 years. He has served as a Messianic pastor, para-church minister, national ministry representative, and radio broadcaster; preaching and teaching the Jewish context of the Scriptures to numerous churches both domestically and internationally. John is a graduate ...
Paul Bukzbazen Interview
July 15, 2023 23:00My good friend Diane told me she met an interesting Messianic believer while visiting family in South Carolina. I called Paul Buksbazen and had a delightful conversation with him. I know you will enjoy this interview! Paul Buksbazen is a 4th generation Messianic Jew. His grandfather Victor Buksbazen started the Friends of Israel organization and wrote the first book on the connection of the Biblical Feasts to the New Covenant and Yeshua. It’s called the Gospel and the Feasts of Israel. V...
Michele Rosenbaum
July 09, 2023 00:00I have known Michele for many years and finally got to interview her! Michele grew up in a Catholic family and attended a Catholic High School. Michele’s Dad died in 1983 and in 1986 a friend shared the Lord with her. Michele gave her heart to the Lord and learned that she could be close to Him. Michele married a Jewish man and she discovered Shema Yisrael Messianic Congregation where she served as Office Manager for a few years. In 2000 Michele was diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder an...
Elaine Fawcett Interview
July 01, 2023 18:59Recently I attended a wonderful Women's Retreat and met some lovely ladies from Rhode Island. This is the first of three interviews that I did while attending the retreat. Elaine Fawcett was raised Catholic and in her college years she was interested in science. She met a scientist who believed in God and seeds were planted. Years later a co-worker invited her to his church and she went to an Easter service. Still not interested in Jesus, she felt more drawn to Judaism. After her gra...
Judith Benhamou Returns
June 24, 2023 19:48It was fun chatting with my long-time friend Judith Benhamou. Judith was raised in a Jewish home but was drawn to Jesus when she was a little girl. She met her Jewish Messiah at 25 years old and fell in love with him. She discovered many other Messianic Jews and has never looked back. This year Judith celebrates 50 years (herJubilee) as a Jewish believer in Yeshua. Judith’s professional career has been in Education and she loves working with children and helping them to discover the joys of...
Peter Oliveira
June 17, 2023 19:09I really enjoyed interviewing Rabbi Peter Oliveira! Formerly the Messianic Rabbi of Congregation Mishkahn David in Rhode Island (Rabbi Brian Samuel is the current Rabbi) Rabbi Peter and his wife Lisa felt called to work at an orphanage in Haiti. They sailed with their children on a sailboat from Rhode Island and it took almost a year to arrive there. They saw miraculous healings while there. It’s truly an amazing story. Currently Rabbi Peter is the Rabbi of Congregation Mishkahn Nachamu ...
Ellen Herr Interview
June 10, 2023 20:08Gotta love social media! I found another Messianic believer! Fun interview! Here is some background on Ellen Herr: Ellen was born into a Jewish family and raised in Lancaster, CA where her parents started the first synagogue. As a young adult Ellen moved to Los Angeles and began to search for a relationship with God. This was during the Jesus revolution where many young Jewish people came to faith in Yeshua. Ellen visited a Messianic congregation in the San Fernando Valley and gave her ...
Joe Miterko Interview
June 03, 2023 23:17I enjoyed getting to know this talented young man. Joe Miterko grew up in a Messianic gentile home and has been involved in music ministry for as long as he can remember. In 2008 while on a trip to Israel, he felt the powerful presence of the Lord, and it changed his life forever. Originally from the Connecticut area, he now lives in Boston, teaches piano, plays at various Messianic functions, and has a deep love of the Lord.
Dr. Jay Christianson Interview
May 27, 2023 19:56I was delighted to find Dr. Jay on Facebook. He is a fascinating man. Here is some background: Dr. Jay Christianson is the founder and President of High Beam Ministry and has faithfully served in ordained ministry since 1994. He is a pastor, teacher, worship leader, speaker, Israel tour leader, independent researcher, Jewish-Christian Dialogue participant, and outspoken advocate for Israel and the Jewish community. Through his online High Beam Ministry, Dr. Jay hosts the weekly Truth ...
Rabbi Jim (Appel) Returns!
May 20, 2023 19:23It's always an honor to chat with my Rabbi. Here's a little bit about Rabbi Jim: Rabbi Jim Appel has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Shema Yisrael since 1996 and a Jewish follower of Yeshua since 1977. He is ordained by the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues. Rabbi Jim previously worked for Xerox Corporation in Webster, N.Y., for 24 years as an optical engineer and engineering manager. He holds more than 45 patents in the areas of copier imaging sys...