Christians in Crosshairs

By LELA GILBERT, HADASSAH MAGAZINE— July 21. I arrived in Israel in 2006, eager to explore a land that had always fascinated me, as an American Christian, writer and news commentator. My father had taught me about the “miraculous re-gathering” of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland and I had heard wonderful reports of…

Wish I’d said that

“The Jews gave us a whole new vocabulary, a whole new Temple of the Spirit, an inner landscape of ideas and feelings that had never been known before…Because of their unique belief—monotheism—the Jews were able to give us the Great Whole a unified universe that makes sense and that, because of its evident superiority as…

Video: Hamas rap

Hamas, a terrorist organization similar to Isis, rules over the Gaza strip. In the summer of 2014 Hamas provoked a war with Israel. Hamas is Palestinian, but it oppresses the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza and launches rockets into Israel to terrorize Israeli civilians. Hamas calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of…