Last February, right before the world shut down, all of us at The Jerusalem Connection, including Jim Hutchens, attended a long-awaited art exhibit at Liberty University. As many of you know, Jim’s wife, Pat Mercer Hutchens, went home to be with her Savior on March 31, 2014. In the four years before her home going,…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBNISRAEL— Imagine waking up one morning to news that the Eiffel Tower is no longer considered French. That the pyramids are not Egyptian. And that the Statue of Liberty is not a beloved symbol of the United States. Your reaction would be astonishment. Yet, here’s a fact that is barely a…
DetailsBy Cody Levine, JPost— Former National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster for the Trump administration said in an interview with Fox News Thursday that President-elect Joe Biden should not rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal upon taking office in on January 20. McMaster said to Fox host Bret Baier that then-Secretary of State John Kerry…
DetailsBy Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post— The majority-Christian nation of Malawi in southeastern Africa has announced plans to open an embassy in Israel and place it in Jerusalem by the summer of 2021. Malawi, whose president is a former pastor in the Assemblies of God denomination, will be the third country to open an embassy in…
DetailsArchaeology is the study of material culture which is left from previous civilizations. Therefore, biblical archaeology is traditional archaeology, but it is conducted in the lands of the Bible: Egypt, Jordan but primarily Israel. I see biblical archaeology as any excavation or study of epigraphic materials that shed light on the biblical narrative or broaden…
DetailsProverbs 3: 5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. This is what I have had written and rewritten on my heart since last Tuesday, Election Day in the US. No matter whom…
DetailsBy Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute— The Iranian regime has excitingly announced former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s possible victory in the US presidential elections and is celebrating that the next US administration will, they hope, be from the Democrat Party. Iranian authorities view the chance that Biden might take over the White House as a definite…
DetailsBy Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— One would think that with him being so unprecedentedly pro-Israel, Trump’s loss in the US election is Israel’s loss. But these days “pro-Israel” is understood quite differently by rival Israeli political camps. The Right still thinks that to be pro-Israel means a president should support traditional Zionist convictions, such as…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom whose extensive writings and frequent media appearances commanded a global following among Jews and non-Jews alike, died Saturday morning. Sacks, 72, was in the midst of a third bout of cancer, which he had announced in October. Sacks was among…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi © Rain, rain, rain, the rain of tears Unwalled tears know no ceiling. Rain, rain, rain, the rain of sighs Bottomless sighs filling the air. O soul of Ya’akov Zvi ben David Arieh, You left the body of Jonathan Sacks On the early morning of Shabbes. It is a privilege that…
DetailsBy Ilan Berman, Newsweek— How will a Biden administration handle the Middle East? Now that the results of the hotly contested U.S. election are (mostly) known, foreign policy experts and officials alike are turning their attention to that question. Over the coming weeks and months more particulars will emerge, as will the personalities who will…
DetailsBy Joshua Washington, Times of Israel—- In the early 1980s, African-American professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Clayborne Carson published a paper called “BLACKS and JEWS in the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: The CASE of SNCC.” In this paper, Carson gives much needed clarity…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels— We are living in an up-side-down world. In Isaiah 5:20, the brilliant prophet describes our culture today, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” Propaganda is an ugly word that most Americans avoid using but it’s time to abandon…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN— Is it possible that overlooking one of Jesus’ most profound declarations could have been a leading cause of the cancerous spread of anti-Semitism in churches and communities throughout the world? This cancer has endured for centuries, and the diagnosis is clear: It’s a malignant melanoma. Left untreated, this cancer is…
DetailsBy International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)— The IHRA is the only intergovernmental organization mandated to focus solely on Holocaust-related issues, so with evidence that the scourge of antisemitism is once again on the rise, we resolved to take a leading role in combatting it. IHRA experts determined that in order to begin to address the…
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat spent the past two decades calling for the boycott and isolation of Israel. In the past few months, Erekat, a PLO leader who previously headed the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel, came out against the agreements to normalize relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates…
DetailsBy ICEJ— The road to reach Jerusalem for the remainder of Ethiopia’s Jewish community has been a long and hard-fought effort. As God brought Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea so we are able to live in this exciting time as God, once again, clears every obstacle to bring His people back to…
DetailsBy JNS— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday expressed the Jewish state’s strong support for Austria in the wake of the terrorist attack in Vienna on Monday. “Israel condemns the brutal attack in Vienna and stands in total solidarity with Austria. Civilized peoples everywhere must unite to defeat the savagery…
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