The majority of Christians have knowledge on the subject of the seven feasts, or festivals of Israel. God required all men – over twenty years of age in Israel, to attend three of the seven feasts in Jerusalem and celebrate in His presence. These were Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. 

     Presently, VOE hosts a Partner’s conference in June and the Main Event in fall (with plans to add a prophetic conference in the late spring.)  Some partners have asked why we do not select the exact date of the three festivals to host our conferences. The fact is, this city has many large conferences and college events, and we must work our calendar around the events in the city to ensure our attendees will have hotel rooms when participating in our major conferences and meetings.    

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Alan Cooperman, deputy director of the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, presented an overview of the findings of the Pew Research survey of U.S. Jews at an Oct. 1 event in New York City, hosted by the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. To see more video by the Pew […]

One of the first decisions that had to be made in conducting this study and analyzing its results was to answer the question, “Who is a Jew?” This is an ancient question with no single, timeless answer. On the one hand, being Jewish is a matter of religion – the traditional, matrilineal definition of Jewish […]

American Jews overwhelmingly say they are proud to be Jewish and have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, but their identity is also changing: 22% of American Jews now say they have no religion.

The survey suggests that intermarriage is common among Jews; 44% of all currently married Jewish respondents – and 58% of those who have married since 2005 – indicate they are married to a non-Jewish spouse. The survey also shows that in some important respects, U.S. Jews have a distinctive demographic profile: They are older than […]

The Jewish community in the U.S. has a long tradition of conducting pioneering social scientific research on the size and characteristics of U.S. Jewry. The last major national survey effort undertaken by the U.S. Jewish community to enumerate and describe the Jewish population was the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS), sponsored by the United […]

The size of the U.S. Jewish population has been a matter of lively debate among academic experts for more than a decade. Because the Pew Research survey involves a representative sample of Jews, rather than a census of all American Jews, it cannot definitively answer the question. However, data from the survey can be used […]