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.…
Over the past 10+ years, our weekly Red Alert videos highlight issues surrounding the anti-Judaism, antisemitism, and antizionism that pervades our culture and society, worldwide. I discuss the historical underpinnings of the overarching Jew hatred, whose beginnings are documented in the Hebrew Bible and its history recorded through two millennia in Europe. Often anti-Judaism was…
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 2. We left off with Nehemiah on his knees, praying and fasting as he prepared to speak directly to…
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. We finished Ezra and we are now launching our study of Nehemiah. Remember that in the Septuagint and the Masoretic text, Ezra and Nehemiah were…
By Inna Rogatchi LITVAK ARTISTS IN PARIS EXHIBITION IN VILNIUS PART II. CELEBRATIONS & CHAGALL UNIVERSE In a remarkable way, additionally to the feast of Chagall, this exhibition also created three very special celebrations of great artists, Arbit Blatas born Neemia Arbitblatas, Rafael Chwoles and Michel Kikoine. In all three cases, there are not a single or couple of works of…