By Israel National News— MKs from the Religious Zionism party toured the area of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon following the violent riots which occurred at the site yesterday. The party’s chairman, MK Bezalel Smotrich, said that “sovereignty in Jerusalem cannot be captured in the hands of Mansour Abbas. We came here because…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— Calling Israel “Palestine” is commonplace today. However, the history of that name goes back millennia. First coined by the ancient Greeks for the five-city area in the Philistine confederacy and then adopted by Roman emperor Hadrian, Palestine was more recently copied by former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat in…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe—- Suppose you were teaching a middle school class a science lesson on gravity. You explain how it works; you even show its consequences by dropping an apple on the floor. Do you think the lesson warrants an examination of an opposing perspective of gravity? Maybe, a lesson from Hindu swamis who practice…
DetailsBy Lahav Harkov, JPost-— Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for an official visit to India. The message was relayed by India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who met with Bennett in Jerusalem on Wednesday. “In the name of the State of Israel, I want to tell you, we love India,”…
DetailsBy Marie Fischer– Before the cease-fire, Hamas terrorists rained down over 3,000 rockets on Israel. Such hostility is nothing new, since Jewish-Muslim tensions trace back to the times of Avraham (Abraham), with respective Jewish and Muslim progenitors Isaac and Ishmael. But enemies of Israel are armed with new social justice weaponry to advance their cause…
DetailsBy Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The newly installed head of Military Intelligence warned on Wednesday night that Iran was enriching more nuclear material more quickly than ever before and said that the Israel Defense Forces would “continue to constrain” it. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, who entered his position earlier this week, said Tehran…
DetailsBy Shelley Neese Welcome to Bible Fiber where we are encountering the textures and shades of the prophetic tapestry in a year-long study of the twelve minor prophets, one prophet each month. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel. Joel…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN— In a stunning upset on October 9, “The Twelfth Man” seemed to play a significant role in the victory in College Station, Texas, when the Texas A&M (Aggies) football team beat the No. 1 University of Alabama Crimson Tide. It ended Alabama’s 19-game winning streak in a game that Aggies…
DetailsBy Reuters— The United States is ready to consider all options if Iran were not willing to return to the constraints of the 2015 nuclear deal, US Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley said on Wednesday. “We will be prepared to adjust to a different reality in which we have to deal with all options…
DetailsBy Ynetnews— Israeli lawmakers flanked by former president Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law launched an initiative in Jerusalem on Monday to advance the Abraham Accords that saw Arab states normalize ties with Israel. Jared Kushner, a former White House adviser married to Ivanka Trump, was a major architect of the deals between Israel and the…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe— Antisemitism, traditionally called Jew-hate (since the term antisemitism is but a few decades old) is arguably the oldest form of hate on human record. The Jewish people have been an identifiable “people” for millennia; empires, communities, nations, and religions have come and gone, but the Jews remain a target with each passing…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— On the late night of October 2, 2021, Simon returned to the place he knew so well . He used to live here with his beloved wife Cyla and their only daughter Paulinka before she moved with her family to Israel, for so many years. Almost six decades. It…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe— I am going to start with some good news out of The University of Bristol in England. I mentioned a few weeks back that a professor there is quite antisemitic in the classroom and on his own time. David Miller, who calls for the end of Zionism, has been fired. This professor…
DetailsBy Stephen Flatow, Israel Hayom— Well, she got the headline she wanted. “Kamala Harris ‘Strongly Disagrees’ With Student Who Said Israel Was Carrying Out Ethnic Genocide,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports. But a closer look at the vice president’s “denial” suggests that it was, in fact, a classic non-denial. The controversy began when the vice…
DetailsBy Zev Stub, JPost— Iranian threat actors are running a highly targeted cyberespionage operation against global aerospace and telecommunications companies, stealing sensitive information from targets around Israel and the Middle East, as well as in the United States, Russia and Europe, according to a report published Wednesday by Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason. Cybereason identified the…
DetailsBy Yaakov Katz, JPost— Here’s the good news: unless something extreme and dramatic happens, we will not be seeing Israeli F-35s or F-15s taking off in the next couple of years to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Here’s the bad news: Iran is continuing to advance toward a nuclear weapon at an unprecedented pace, and in…
DetailsWelcome to Bible Fiber where we are encountering the textures and shades of the prophetic tapestry in a year-long study of the twelve minor prophets, one prophet each month. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel. All of September, we…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe—- When it is applied to our colleges and universities. All us–Jews, Christians and others–must apply critical thinking to the curriculums and lectures and speeches that professors, administrators and campus activists are espousing. The amount of poison leaching into our academic arenas is overwhelming. Schools were once the safe haven for questioning, seeking…
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