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JCBT Fall 2023 Newsletter

BREAKING NEWS Dear friends, dear prayer partners, First comes an extensive GENERAL UPDATE of the situation in Israel today, Tuesday, October 10, 2023 – to be followed by a PERSONAL UPDATE We were just about to send our long overdue newsletter about the events and happenings at JCBT during spring, summer and fall 2023, when suddenly on the last day …

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Newsletter from Mirja

Shalom friends! “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” (Ps. 127:1). This was written in a small scroll in Hebrew and Finnish and hidden in the foundations of Bible home’s log home during its construction phase. The house was dedicated in 2010. From that …

Newsletter from Bob Carter

Shalom to you all from Jerusalem. I am Bob Carter, the new Executive Director of JCBT. It is a privilege to write to you in this newsletter. And it is a privilege to serve our Lord through JCBT in Jerusalem. Serving God in Israel has been a long-time dream for me and my wife Amy, and we thank God for …

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Biblical Semantics at JCBT

We all know that the Bible is an ancient Book, that, at times, can be difficult to understand. Some passages may seem relatively easy, others are almost impossible to comprehend without some help. Sometimes it is like a person standing outside who tries to look into the window of a house. If there is no light on in the room, …

Luka Manevich

My name is Luka Manevich, I was born in the former Soviet Union. The place of my birth is a city far to the north called Yakutsk. This is a capital of a huge region in Siberia. It is the largest city on Earth, built in the permafrost zone, and seems to be the only place that has a mammoth …

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JCBT English Newsletter January 2021

(The zeros here are a model of the COVID 19 virus located in a New York glass museum) Jerusalem Center: 2020 to 2021! Dear friends and co-workers! Let us welcome the new year boldly with a New Song. Let us put the focus on the NEW, so beautifully expressed in Psalm 33:3-4: “Sing unto Him a new song, play skillfully with a …

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JCBT Newsletter March 2021

  From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday! Dear beloved friends and co-workers, Greetings from the Jerusalem Center for Translators! Let us walk through the events of this significant week together in our thoughts and spirits. The week includes the Passover night celebration about the joy of gaining freedom from slavery in Egypt to the joyful celebration of gaining Eternal Life through repentance and forgiveness …

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JCBT English Newsletter February 2021

NEWS of NEW BEGINNINGS: overcoming Corona by Zoom teaching! Teaching sent from Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, to the countries of the students of 2021. “For Instruction will come out of Zion and the Word of the  Lord from Jerusalem”. Isaiah 2:3 Dear friends and co-workers! Greetings from Jerusalem on Feb. 21st, the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MOTHER-TONGUE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. Greetings …

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RESPONSE TO CORONA: SUCCESSFUL PAST & EXCITING FUTURE

Dear friends, alumni and colleagues, “This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it”. Psa. 118:24. HOMECOMINGS Finally, we here at JCBT are in a position to share the news that all the national students of 2020 have reached home. The last 5 had to wait for flights home for one whole month …

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THE GRADUATION CLASS OF 2020

THE WINNERS! In the featured image above: Corona Year: 13 Graduates from 9 countries with the directors and Hebrew instructors. (Several faces blurred for security reasons.) Dear friends,  ” This is the day the Lord has made – let us exult and rejoice in it”. Ps. 118:24 Indeed,  this is the group that came out victorious from a semester during which three …