Jesus was a Jew. The writers of Scripture were Jews. The early churchemerged in a Jewish environment. So why the tension between Jews andChristians, and why have so few Jews come to believe in the Messiah? In "The Fig Tree Blossoms, "Paul Liberman uncovers the Jewish roots of theChristian faith and helps Gentile believers come to a deeper understandingof the historic issues that have fed Jewish suspicion of Christians andChristian prejudice toward Jews. But in these last days, Liberman writes, God is using the emerging Messianicmovement to bring many Jews into His kingdom and to awaken...

Paul Liberman believed in Destiny. He believed he had a Destiny. But what was behind Destiny? What made it work? Paul was obsessed with finding out. "I am certain there is more to life than can be seen." The Liberman family arrived in New York from Minsk, Belarus in 1906. Paul's grandfather, Bernard, was 12. The Libermans derived from a European world that for centuries consisted of two populations -- Christians and Jews. Living side by side, but frequently in conflict, the line between the two groups was distinct -- observed by all and frequently legally enforced. In 1918, Bernard founded...