By Amy Zewe To follow up on our conversation last week (August 9, 2023) regarding the antisemitic tide that many university faculties, administrations, and associations are engaging, this week my goal is to examine a bit more of what it means to equate antisemitism with anti-Zionism. Many of those in education and politics will tell…
Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. This week we are studying Nehemiah 6. The city wall was almost complete. All that remained was setting the doors in the gateways. With the…
By Amy Zewe and Shelley Neese Today we have Shelley Neese, The Jerusalem Connection President, joining us to discuss the detrimental implications of universities or members therein boycotting or otherwise singling out Israel and its citizens for discrimination. Join us to hear Shelley’s insights regarding the connection between academic departments and associations being politicized and…
Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. This week we are studying Nehemiah 5. Thematically, Chapter 5 is an awkward fit in the book, an insertion that interrupts an otherwise continuous narrative.…
Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. This week we are studying Nehemiah 5. Thematically, Chapter 5 is an awkward fit in the book, an insertion that interrupts an otherwise continuous narrative.…
…..more than you could imagine. By Amy Zewe Rachel Lipman of Loew Vineyards and active member of 3GDC joins the July 26, 2023, Jerusalem Connection Red Alert Report to share her family’s story. Affluent and innovative winemakers in Poland, the Loew family legacy and business were destroyed as Nazis dominated Europe. William Loew, Rachel’s grandfather,…
Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts!https://youtu.be/2rvyloAcOiE?si=39mvB828URdiJJXn Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. This week we are studying Nehemiah 4, an extra dramatic passage that is mined more than…
Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. This week we are studying Nehemiah 4, an extra dramatic passage that is mined more than any other chapter in Nehemiah for application that applies…
Antisemitism is a relatively new word. Prior to the 20th century, the hatred of Jews was often called Jew Hatred (which does the job well in assigning a term to a concept) and anti-Judaism. For centuries, even millennia, throughout the European ages and through the biblical ages before, the drumbeat to snuff out the line…
Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. This week we are reading Nehemiah 3. In chapter 3, Nehemiah paused his first-person narrative and inserted an archival record of the Jerusalem wall project.…