God's growing work among Orthodox Jews

Are more and more Orthodox Jews discovering Jesus as their Messiah? Are scales beginning to fall from the eyes of Jewish people everywhere?

It is hardly surprising when Jews the world over – pilloried and persecuted for millennia – express their longing for peace and security. It’s a cry of the heart that was heard through many of the magical musicals of the 20th century that came to be known as the Great American Songbook.

Many of the composers and lyricists were Jewish, and I believe it was significant that, on the eve of the Holocaust in 1940, Yip Harburg, whose Jewish parents immigrated to the United States from Russia, won a Hollywood Oscar for his song Over the Rainbow, composed by Harold Arlen and famously sung by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz: