Before you check out this website, please read this important Statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This website is on my bucket list. It’s also a work in progress, so please bear with me.

About Me: I’m an Associate Pastor at a Hebraic Christian congregation, so I get a lot of questions about biblical Judaism. As it happens, I do have a secular Jewish background. I was born in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in 1943, at a moment in time when the city of New York was the demographic center of the Jewish world. At the time I was born, my father was a Jew who didn’t go to synagogue and my mother was an Episcopalian who didn't go to church.  I spent my formative years in a secular, almost completely Jewish neighborhood near Pleasantville, New York, that spent its formative years as a close-knit cooperative community that would eventually become known as the Usonia Historic District.  (If Usonia had actually had a rabbi, that rabbi would have been Frank Lloyd Wright.)

When I went off to college, I had to choose between Jewish or Christian on a pre-admission form. I chose Jewish because I had to check a box by something, but I self-identified as half and half.  Today, I identify as 100% and 100%.  I’m 100% Jewish because in the Bible a person's Jewishness is inherited through their father.  I’m 100% Christian because I’m a born-again, water-baptized believer in Jesus. I’ve been one of the pastors at Shalom Hebraic Christian Congregation since 2009. And since 2011 I’ve been married to my husband Will. (It was an answer to prayer for both of us—and in my case it “just so happened” to take place 40 years and 4 days after the day I accepted Jesus.)

Why This Website Is on My Bucket List

First and foremost, I want everyone who reads this to establish a relationship with God if you haven’t already.

I want to tell you about some of the many miracles I’ve witnessed firsthand and others that I’ve experienced myself.

I also want to tell you about some other topics like:

• What the Hebrew Bible (aka the "Old" Testament) actually says about the Jewish holidays. I get asked about this a lot.

• The difference between biblical Judaism and rabbinic Judaism. People don’t think to ask me this, but the difference is actually HUGE.

• The best places to learn to read and speak biblical Hebrew and Greek for free, no matter what your native language is.
  (If the alphabet is all you want to learn, you can find the biblical Hebrew alphabet song here and the biblical Greek alphabet song here.)

• I want you to know what the Bible says about Jews and about Israel.

• I want everyone to know that born-again Jews and Gentiles are equally important to God.

• And yes—I do plan to tell you about lots of miracles.  Because I’ve seen and experienced many miracles, and I want you to experience them too.

Margot Armer