Adat HaTikvah

Adat HaTikvah is a Messianic Jewish congregation in Deerfield, Illinois. Its name means "congregation of the hope." Every Saturday at 10:00 a.m., the community gathers for a Torah service. Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg leads the congregation.

The mission is simple and stated plainly: "To Be and Make Disciples Of Yeshua The Messiah." Jewish and Gentile believers share congregational life here, and the community hopes to unify all disciples of Yeshua in the Chicago area. Its teaching runs "to the Jewish people first" and also to the nations. The biblical calendar sits at the center of that teaching. Scripture is read as one story from beginning to end.

The congregation's roots go back to 1934. David and Ester Bronstein founded it that year as the First Hebrew Christian Church of Chicago, growing out of a Jewish mission house ministry called Peniel Center. In 1974 the name changed to Adat Hatikvah. Over the decades it met in Albany Park, East Rogers Park, West Rogers Park and Evanston before settling in Deerfield. Past leaders include Larry Rich, Dan Juster, Barry Budoff, Jeff Feinberg and Roy Schwartz. Many of them went on to plant other congregations and organizations around the world.