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Bagels and BlessingsTuvya Zaretsky InterviewTuvya Zaretsky is one of the founders of the Jews for Jesus ministry, beginning his service in February 1974. He was raised in Northern California in the institutions of American Judaism. And he came to believe in Yeshua (Jesus) in 1970.During his career, Tuvya has provided leadership of Jews for Jesus branches in Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv. Tuvya is also the founder of JewishGentileCouples.com, a free counseling service for intercultural couples, operating out of the Jews for Jesus LA branch.Tuvya earned an M.A. Missiology in Judaic Studies at T...
2025-10-2500 min
Jewish Gentile CouplesThey Just Knew: Aden and Cara FriedmanAden came from an ultra-Orthodox background. One of the most difficult things he ever had to do was tell his family that he was interested in a girl, and she wasn't Jewish.Cara was raised Christian, so her family was also surprised by Aden. But in spite of their many differences, Cara knew she'd met Aden for a reason.
2025-04-2329 min
Bethel Church of HoustonLuke 24:1-9 and 13-20 | Guest Speaker Tuvya ZaretskyBethel Church of Houston
Sunday April 6, 2025
Tuvya Zaretsky
2025-04-0737 min
Jewish Gentile CouplesA Jewish Israeli And an Ethiopian Christian Face War TogetherD’vora is an Israeli mother living in Toronto. When she heard that war had broken out back home last year, she knew she had to go and help. Her non-Jewish husband, Teddy, supported her 100%. Hear them tell the story.
2024-11-1518 min
One New Man MInistriesThoughts on Jewish Evangelism and Other ThingsJerry interviews Tuvya Zaretsky, long time Jews for Jesus Missionary and their Director of Jewish Gentile Couples Ministry. Tuvya also served for 20 years with the Lausanne Consultation of Jewish Evangelism, a group of Jewish and Gentile missions organizations, collaborating on reaching Jewish people around the world with the Gospel. We talk about how that mission has progressed over the past 50 years, as well as the church's role in witnessing to the Jewish Messiah. We wrap up in a discussion about intercultural sensitivity and the power of love in all cross cultural missions.
2024-08-091h 00
Jewish Gentile CouplesPersevering Through Rising AntisemitismSam and Valeria Botbol are a Jewish-Gentile couple living in Southern California. They both grew up in Latin American cultures with many similarities but with different experiences and ideas around antisemitism. Now, in the wake of October 7 and an increasing surge of antisemitism, they’re learning how to persevere and care for each other as a newly married couple.
2024-06-1933 min
Grace Crossing Bible Church Sunday SermonsWhy Israel Still Matters - Tuvya Zaretsky (Jews for Jesus) - 4/28/2024Please visit our website for more information about how to connect with this local church family of believers. (www.gracecrossingbc.org)
2024-04-2833 min
Jewish Gentile CouplesHope in Times of Cultural CrisisElize and Rob Berman from South Africa are navigating increasing antisemitism as an intermarried couple. We invite you to listen to their inspiring story.
2024-03-3022 min
2024-03-2448 minSermonsWhy the Nations MatterActs 17:26 and Other Scriptures | 2/11/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Last week, our guest speaker Dr. Tuvya Zaretsky preached on “Why Israel Still Matters.” This week, Pastor Matt builds on this foundation with “Why the Nations Matter.” What is God’s plan for the nations in coordination with Israel? With the Super Bowl today that attracts nations around the world to watch our culture, it is a unique Sunday for us to consider how Christ’s church and the people of Israel are used by God to attract a much bigger global audience to display something far greater than American football, that is, the Savior o...
2024-02-1100 minSermonsWhy the Nations MatterActs 17:26 and Other Scriptures | 2/11/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Last week, our guest speaker Dr. Tuvya Zaretsky preached on “Why Israel Still Matters.” This week, Pastor Matt builds on this foundation with “Why the Nations Matter.” What is God’s plan for the nations in coordination with Israel? With the Super Bowl today that attracts nations around the world to watch our culture, it is a unique Sunday for us to consider how Christ’s church and the people of Israel are used by God to attract a much bigger global audience to display something far greater than American football, that is, the Savior o...
2024-02-1100 minSermonsWhy Israel Still Matters | Tuvya ZaretskyOur guest preacher Tuvya Zaretsky of Jews for Jesus tells us why Israel still matters. The modern state of Israel has been in the news a lot in recent months with the attack by Hamas and its counter-attack. Tuvya will explain why Israel matters in God's unchanging, eternal plan. Because God chose Israel. Because God shows His love and loyalty in His relationship with Israel. Because God proves His character to Israel His people.
2024-02-0400 minSermonsWhy Israel Still Matters | Tuvya ZaretskyOur guest preacher Tuvya Zaretsky of Jews for Jesus tells us why Israel still matters. The modern state of Israel has been in the news a lot in recent months with the attack by Hamas and its counter-attack. Tuvya will explain why Israel matters in God's unchanging, eternal plan. Because God chose Israel. Because God shows His love and loyalty in His relationship with Israel. Because God proves His character to Israel His people.
2024-02-0400 min
2023-04-061h 00
Jewish Gentile Couples18. Alex and Drew HeftyeDrew is a church director of youth and family ministry. Alex is a trained clinical counselor and child welfare social worker. She is Jewish and both identify as followers of Jesus. They are parents of one small child. What can happen if two spiritually mature, emotionally healthy people hit a cross-cultural snag after one makes a remark, they intended for humor, but deeply wounds a loved one. We all can learn valuable insight from their candor and gained understanding.
2023-01-1232 min
The Marriage ProjectTuvya Zaretsky from Jewish-Gentiles Couples on Spiritual Harmony in Cross-Cultural RelationshipsTuvya and his wife Ellen have been married for 41 years. Both are from traditional Jewish backgrounds but identify as Messianic Jews for Jesus (Jews who believe in Jesus). They have 3 adult children, two daughters and a son, and one daughter who is intermarried.
Tuvya holds a Doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is the founder of JewishGentileCouples.com, a free counseling service for intercultural couples. JGC ministry helps people who are in Jewish-Gentile relationships (dating, engaged, married, together with or without children) create greater cross-cultural understanding.
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2022-07-0637 min
Jewish Gentile Couples17. Marisa and Andrew AlexanderMarisa and Andrew are a Jewish-Gentile couple in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their eyes are wide open to the wonderful cross-cultural richness of their country, home and marriage. It's natural for Marisa to be Ashkenazi Jewish and fluent in Zulu. Andrew is comfortable almost anywhere having grown up as a Scotsman in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Now he is discovering the Jewishness of faith in the Old and New Testaments!
2022-06-1832 min
Jewish Gentile Couples16. David and Jennifer GoldsteinThe journey to find spiritual harmony can feel as distant as east is from the west. Dave and Jennifer Goldstein made it and found one true God. His parents were Jewish academics living as Buddhists in Japan. Hers were middle American evangelicals in Indiana. Theirs is a story of finding a mutually satisfying spirituality and a soulmate.
2022-01-0420 min
Jewish Gentile Couples14. Aaron and Becky LewinAaron is from Israel and England. Becky is from German-speaking Switzerland. They speak to one another in different languages but that doesn't keep them from relating with deep appreciation and mutual respect. They also share the intimacy of a spiritual harmony as well. Theirs is a fascinating story of cross cultural communication and love.
2021-12-1433 min
Jewish Gentile Couples13. Martin and Elizabeth GoldsmithMartin Goldsmith's family endured anti-Semitism in Germany, America and England. His wife, Elizabeth endured the hardship of a Communist Chinese internment camp for children. Yet both of them found purpose and joy in life together as cross-cultural ambassadors to various countries of S E Asia serving the God and Messiah of Israel.
2021-12-1400 min
Jewish Gentile Couples12. Simone and Mark GrismoreSimone and Mark are a couple of Millennials, now happily married. Their wedding was a filled with the typical cross-cultural challenges and interesting ways to navigate them. That's their story. You might also appreciate Simone's blog about what shaped he identity from an interfaith family. Enjoy.
2021-12-1420 min
Jewish Gentile Couples11. Sahar and Maria SadlovskySahar is an Israeli Sabra and Maria is his thoughtful and gracious wife from Sweden. These two Millennials couldn't be from more different cultural worlds. However, they've found joy in daily discovery and the challenges of a complex cross-cultural relationship. Enjoy the story of our current front page faces at www.JewishGentileCouples.com
2021-12-1426 min
Jewish Gentile Couples10. Mike and Victoria SteleThe story of Mike and Victoria Stele has a little Rom-Com, adventure and spiritual grounding to it. How do a Jewish guy and a Latina/Filipina Christian girl come together through a complex of cross-cultural religious challenges? Mike and Victoria are a Southern California couple that met in a water park, married in a rush and today are together and solid as a rock. How'd they do that? Give a listen. They'll make you think.
2021-12-1443 min
Jewish Gentile Couples9. D'vora and Teddy LemaD'vora and Teddy are a mixed ethnicity couple from Ethiopia. He was raised through separation and hardship by his grandparents and reunited to his mother in Canada at age 12. D'vora's family are Ethiopian Jews who were airlifted to Israel during Project Solomon. Their love story will lift your heart in how they found unity and spiritual harmony.
2021-12-1435 min
Jewish Gentile Couples8. Irina and Tim OrfIrina is Jewish and raised in Ukraine where the Jewish intermarriage rate was above 70%. She followed her passion for things cross-cultural to become a world class performer within a Ukrainian Irish Step Dance troupe and a professional translator. As a teenager in Minnesota, Tim began playing the electric guitar in garage rock bands. These two Gen-Xers met in an unlikely, but perhaps providential, way. Their love story is one of hope and healing.
2021-12-1435 min
Jewish Gentile Couples7. Ephraim Radner and Annette BrownleeEphraim Radner and Annette Brownlee are an intermarried couple and scholars serving at Wycliffe College, an evangelical graduate school of theology at the University of Toronto. Jewish identity, the biblical history of Israel and deep faith in Jesus are important to both partners in this thoughtful Jewish-Gentile couple.
2021-12-1433 min
Jewish Gentile Couples6. Karl & Kristen deSouzaHow do two people from different parts of Asia, one Jewish and the other Korean find spiritual harmony? Karl and Kristen deSouza came a long way geographically and spiritually to find oneness in their marriage. They share what guided them to one another and keeps them on solid ground together.
2021-12-1429 min
Jewish Gentile Couples5. Lucy and JesseLucy and Jesse are from California and Illinois - West Coast and Mid-West meet in their lives. Woven throughout their cross-cultural conversations are the biblical backgrounds, meaning in rituals and different festival celebrations. They love each other, learn from one another and grow into new understandings together. Enjoy hearing how they do that.
2021-12-1430 min
Jewish Gentile Couples4. Ron and Liessa RandleHe's a Black Christian and she's a traditional Jewish woman. They're both from St. Louis. They both experienced ethnic prejudice before and after they were married to one another. They also found spiritual strength and joy together through their mutual faith in the Messiah of Israel, who they call Yeshua (Jesus). Ron and Liessa love God, love one another and they love other people as they are loved.
2021-12-1438 min
Jewish Gentile Couples3. Mike and Sarah MillsHe is a Gentile "none" raised with some exposure to Catholic traditions and culture. Her parents lived and practiced traditional Judaism in a near north suburb above New York City. They met while attending college, fell in love and then discovered each faced serious and unique cross-cultural challenges. Mike and Sarah are Millennials who were married just two years at the time of this interview. Give a listen to their honest description of how they resolved those challenges enough to find spiritual harmony.
2021-12-1435 min
Jewish Gentile CouplesJewish Gentile Couples Q + A: Isaac Brickner interviews Tuvya ZaretskyIsaac Brickner interviews Tuvya Zaretsky about the background for the Jewish-Gentile couples podcasts. What is happening within global Jewry that makes this formerly ignored topic so relevant today? Why would anybody start asking Jews and Gentiles to describe the challenges they experience in their relationships? Since Jewish intermarriage is common today, does hope exist for a mutually satisfying spiritual harmony with a gentile that doesn't violate someone's conscience or identity?
2021-12-1432 min
Jewish Gentile Couples1. Daryl and Stacy McKillianFinding spiritual harmony requires giving mutual respect within two different cultures. Ethnicity is an important and unchangeable feature of ancestry. It is sort of our "brand," like the different hardware models of laptop computers. Culture is like the software that enables us to operate, interacting socially. Different elements of our culture may change, some more easily than others. Listen as Daryl and Stacy McKillian describe how being true to their unique cultures, while also respecting and loving one another, brought about culture change in both of them as they found spiritual harmony together.
2021-12-1432 min
Jewish Gentile Couples15. Susan and Christian WilderSusan Wilder is all about Jewish New Jersey! Her husband Christian is a professor of theology and Old testament. They found life and spirituality together through common faith and very different cultural backgrounds. This is their story.
2021-11-1928 min
Simple Faith with Rusty George142: What The Passover Can Teach Christians with Tuvya Zaretsky from "Jews for Jesus"Tuvya Zaretsky, a leader at "Jews for Jesus", joins me to discusses the importance & significance of The Passover for Christians today. A rerun episode from last year, we discuss Tuvya's background in Judaism, his faith transformation to becoming a Christian, and what we can learn from Jesus' growing up as a Jew. I know that Tuvya's message will illuminate your path of faith this Holy Week.
2021-04-0137 minLeading Simple with Rusty George142: What The Passover Can Teach Christians with Tuvya Zaretsky from "Jews for Jesus"Tuvya Zaretsky, a leader at "Jews for Jesus", joins me to discusses the importance & significance of The Passover for Christians today. A rerun episode from last year, we discuss Tuvya's background in Judaism, his faith transformation to becoming a Christian, and what we can learn from Jesus' growing up as a Jew. I know that Tuvya's message will illuminate your path of faith this Holy Week.
2021-04-0137 min
Simple Faith with Rusty GeorgeBonus Episode: A Conversation with Tuvya ZaretskyThis bonus episode is a conversation with Tuvya Zaretsky about being raised Jewish, coming to faith in Jesus, and advice on how to help others who question if Jesus is the Messiah. Part One of this powerful conversation can be found at our Real Life Church Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNKqdrjaoo
2020-04-1117 minLeading Simple with Rusty GeorgeBonus Episode: A Conversation with Tuvya ZaretskyThis bonus episode is a conversation with Tuvya Zaretsky about being raised Jewish, coming to faith in Jesus, and advice on how to help others who question if Jesus is the Messiah. Part One of this powerful conversation can be found at our Real Life Church Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNKqdrjaoo
2020-04-1117 min
Big Valley Grace Community ChurchWhy Israel Matters :: Week 1 :: Tuvya Zaretsky :: Why Jews For Jesus?Tuvya Zaretsky of Jews For Jesus speaks at Big Valley Grace Community Church in Modesto, CA.
2015-05-2800 min
Judaism's response to Christian Missionaries with Rabbi Tovia SingerRabbi Tovia Singer Debates Jews for Jesus Leader Tuvya ZaretskyRabbi Tovia Singer Debates Jews for Jesus Leader Tuvya Zaretsky
2009-07-2600 min