In this special podcast interview, Jeff meets up with Joel Chernoff at the National Religious Broadcaster's Conference (NRB) in Nashville in 2026. Joel Chernoff is General Secretary and CEO of Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. Founded in 1915, it is the largest institution representing the Messianic Jewish community worldwide (www.mjaa.org). He is also Founder and Executive Board Chairman of the Joseph Project International (josephproject.org), the humanitarian arm of the MJAA responsible for providing more than $170 million worth of humanitarian aid to Israel. The Joseph Project International is the largest importer of humanitarian aid in the state of Israel.

Chernoff is also Board Chairman of MJAA Ethiopian Relief (www.mjaaer.org), caring for and advocating for the final exodus of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. In 2024, the Ethiopian government recognized it as one of top three non-government organizations (NGOs) in the country.

Founder and Board Chairman of Alliance for Israel Advocacy (www.israeladvocates.org); and Executive Secretary of International Messianic Jewish Alliance (www.theimja.org), encompassing national Alliances in 18 countries.

Chernoff is the founder, composer, and lead singer for the music group, LAMB, which pioneered and popularized the genre of music known today as Messianic Praise and Worship and has recorded 12 albums that have sold hundreds of thousands of recordings with numerous songs on the Top 10 Contemporary Christian Music charts in the 1970s and 80s (www.lambmessianicmusic.com).

For more information about Joel and the Messianic Jewish Alliance, please visit the following websites: 
https://mjaa.org/
https://mjaa.org/ethiopia/  
https://mjaa.org/joseph-project/

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