Daily Archives: March 31, 2013

How the exodus story created America

UncategorizedBy The Jerusalem Connection March 31, 2013

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— OF ALL the festivals on the Jewish calendar, it is Passover which contains some of the boldest and most powerful imagery. The departure of our ancestors from Egypt, their pursuit by Pharaoh and his chariots, and the climactic splitting of the Red Sea, are just some of the themes that we…

Repentance for Sin Against the Jewish People

UncategorizedBy The Jerusalem Connection March 31, 2013

By Peter D. Hocken In the second half of the twentieth century, a sea change took place in the attitudes toward the Jewish people within the Christian world. This change was triggered, above all, by the Holocaust, and the massive shock to the Christian psyche caused by the fact that this organized attempt to eliminate…