I believe that God is calling Christians and Jews together to bless Israel
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein not only distributed more charity for the Jewish people than anyone else in history, he brought about a revolution in Jewish-Christian relations.
On a miraculous transformation.
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Yael Eckstein had known that she would be taking over for her father at the fellowship.
Olim on the flight were from Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov and Kropyvnytskyi.
Ori Ansbacher, 19, was brutally murdered in Jerusalem’s Ein Yael forest on February 21, and was buried in her hometown of Tekoa the next day.
In Chicago, Eckstein was the first Jew many of the Evangelical pastors had ever met and they were willing, even eager, to support Jews, Israel and Soviet Jewry.
“He felt that the best way to touch them would be to address them in their own language, to lower as much as possible all the barriers.”
“Yechiel was like the sun that shines one the world, and he shone on all Jews everywhere,” said Rabbi Berel Lazar.