One night outside the festival auditorium in Riga, I met another Jewish woman who said that she loves to sing the songs of the Jewish people. She had some advice for us about how we should sing an old Jewish song, "Yiddishe Mama." I asked her to sing, and she...
Tatyana's grandfather was a rabbi in Ukraine. Five years ago she moved to the United States. I met her at a Messianic synagogue where I had been speaking. This was her first visit to a Messianic congregation, and she was filled with questions. Tatyana's English was...
In August 1997 when we were holding the International Festival of Jewish Music and Dance in Riga, I met a woman in her seventies. She told me she was an obstetrician and midwife. Along with thousands of others that evening, she had come to one of the largest...