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This Jewish Christian Webring site is owned by david@sandalphon.com

Shalom, Peace, and Welcome!

Thank you for considering our webring

as one you might like to join and share with!

The Jewish Christian Webring is for religious theme web pages that are active in including Jewish ideas and traditions in their definition of Christianity, or Christian (Messianic) ideas and traditions in their definition of Judaism. The webring is open to personal pages, teaching organizations, ministries, churches and synagogues.

NEW!  Jewish Christian Beliefs and Practices Page  NEW!

(with combined Jewish and Christian calendar of upcoming observances)

I'm excited about this new feature to the JCW.  We are taking our witnessing further by showing what we do and what others can do to enrich their religious lives and observance through Messianic Jewish practices.  Some contributors belong to organized Messianic communities.  Others are not part of a group, but have found fulfillment and identity through the practices and observances in a different, not so exact or structured, way.  My vision is that Christians who may want to observe Jewish customs (Passover, for example) can come to this page and read how other Christians have adopted the Jewish custom for their Christian practices.  Whether the Christian is seeking to fulfill the Jewish Torah, or just honoring through imitation, that is left to the individual.  This page is here to encourage and help, and show that there are many who go through the same practices.

TO JOIN THE JEWISH CHRISTIAN WEBRING:

This is how the webring works:

(1) Over at www.webring.org they have thousands of webrings of every kind of subject matter. These rings are associations of similar web pages, so that if a surfer were visiting one page, he could click on the webring and visit a similar page. Now that person could also go to that web page's links page (if there is one), but a webring is a cleaner, classier, more efficient way to do it. Plus, a webring is a community. Links are just one person's opinion of what is cool or of a common interest.

(2) If you have a page that witnesses Jewish Christian beliefs, and you want to add your page the the JCW, you need to go to webring.org and locate the Messianic Driectory.  This link is hopefully working--click here.    When you obtain your webring.org ID, and then submit your site to the JCW, the JCW ringmaster will be notified that there is a new submission.

(3) Before you are added to the JCW, you need to copy the HTML code, or Script, which creates the webring banner and links.  Add this code to your web page.  The e-mail you received from webring.org when you submitted your site should have given you a Site ID.  This needs to be added to the code where indicated.   You can click here for a copy of the script ***SCRIPT*** (CLICK on the word script).  Also, webring has a smaller banner that some use.  The majority of members in JCW prefer to use the custom banner with the Wailing Wall and Fish and Loaves, and JCW logo.

The JCW banner MUST remain on the members main page!  No links page!  NO separate Webrings page!!  See discussion below for why we do this...

This script MUST be on the page that you list as your SITE URL below. Otherwise the system will delete your page from the webring. The common practice in webrings is to put the script on your main page. The reason for this is to encourage others to see the variety of Jewish Christian religious pursuits, and being dumped into a links page (if that's where your script is) is not as encouraging as seeing one's main page.

Also, this practice discourages those people who like to join as many webrings as they can in order to increase their hits. Instead, this webring is envisioned as a serious attempt to encourage fellowship among those who have Jewish Christian web pages, and those who are interested in the subject matter.

Since the creation of this webring in 1998, this issue of banner placement has come up several times. Some potential members and current members have wanted to place the banner on their Links page or on a separate webring page instead of on their main page. When surfing the ring, a person would come to a main page, but in order to visit the next member they would have to navigate into the separate webring page, wait for it to load, and then select "Next". The JCW banners are only to be placed on main pages so that those who are investigating Jewish Christianity can navigate from main page to main page easily. As a hopefully future member of the webring you will see that you are a better witness to Jewish Christianity when surfers can navigate main pages in this way. Some webrings obviously allow separate webring pages, and they have dozens and even hundreds of member pages as a result of this allowance. But I think it is a hardship to navigate a ring that way, and they do bad service to those they are witnessing to.

Any ring pages found without the JCW banner and working links on their main page will be suspended, notified, and eventually removed.

Thank you again for your interest, whether you joined or not.  The members are committed to witnessing to their combined Jewish and Christian beliefs, and we hope to build a strong community of like-minded people and their web sites.

Shalom.

David Beall, Ringmaster JCW

(Revised Sept. 2002)

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