A quarter of a million Jewish people live in the UK – and this month, most of them will be celebrating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. But for Randy Newman, author of Questioning Evangelism, it was this Jewish Festival that started his journey to faith in Christ. Everything changed when he looked down at his shoes…
I was born into a Jewish family in the suburbs of New York City.
At the time ‘maintaining Jewish identity’ was a high priority. My father fought in World War II, and my parents were of that generation that first learned of the horrors of the Holocaust, that demonic explosion that slaughtered one third of the world’s Jewish population (6 million out of 18 million).
