by The Jerusalem Connection | Apr 29, 2018 | Quote
“From beginning to end, the Holy Scriptures testify that the predicament of fallen humanity is so serious, so grave, so irremediable from within, that nothing short of divine intervention can rectify it.” ― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Apr 16, 2018 | Quote
As the historian of antisemitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Antisemitism is the longest and deepest hatred of human history. Other hatreds may have surpassed it in intensity for a historical moment, but...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Apr 8, 2018 | Quote
“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.” – Isaac Newton
by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 19, 2018 | Quote
“Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools. Nowhere is this more evident than on Passover, when the entire ritual of handing on our story...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 4, 2018 | Quote
“We are all surrounded by things which we apprehend but cannot comprehend.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 26, 2018 | Quote
“I had thought of the New Testament to be impure, a source of pride, of selfishness, of hatred, and of the worst kind of violence, but as I opened it I felt myself peculiarly and wonderfully taken possession of. A sudden glory, a light flashed through my soul. I...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 18, 2018 | Quote
“The Jewish people’s unbreakable bond to this sacred city reaches back more than 3,000 years. It was here, in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, that Abraham offered his son, Isaac, and was credited with righteousness for his faith in God. It was here, in Jerusalem,...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 11, 2018 | Quote
“In a place where there are no men, endeavor to be a man.”–Rabbi Hillel
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 4, 2018 | Quote
“The Jew – is the symbol of eternity…. He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind…. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.”—Leo Tolstoy
