by Elyshia Johnson | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Friend, Happy New Year! You will probably receive this letter just after the New Year, at a time when you have finally put the holidays behind you and are adjusting back to the routines of a new year. The New Year’s resolutions have been made and now is the...
by Elyshia Johnson | Dec 16, 2019 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel, Word to the Nations
December 17, 2019 by Kimberly Troup Christmas is a time that brings mixed emotions for me. I grew up in a Christian home that did not celebrate Christmas. I was taught as a child that Christmas is a completely pagan holiday and shouldn’t be celebrated in any way, so...
by Elyshia Johnson | Dec 3, 2019 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
My sisters and I returned home from school on that first night of Chanukah the year we moved, myself only nine years old, ears and nose bright red from cold. Inside the house, hand-drawn decorations crowded the walls and a fire crackled merrily in the fireplace,...
by Elyshia Johnson | Dec 2, 2019 | News from the Land, Newsletters
Neve Zuf is a lovely, yet relatively isolated community. Founded in 1977, it was one of the first communities to be settled in Samaria. When my husband Ed and I came to Israel in 1982 for a visit, in anticipation of our Aliyah, we were asked by our Aliyah group in...
by Elyshia Johnson | Nov 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Friend, Irving Roth survived Auschwitz, a death march, and Buchenwald as a teen-ager, and I was recently privileged to spend a weekend with him and his wife. Today he is a sweet and funny 90-year-old man, who shares his experiences in the hopes of making the...
