What is Yom Ha’atzmaut? Israeli Independence Day (known in Hebrew as Yom Ha’atzmaut) celebrates the creation of the Jewish State. Most countries have a birthday, a day each year that they remember their country’s start. In America, we celebrate our birthday on the 4th of July. This year, Israel’s Independence Day is on May 11th…
DetailsBy ASSOCIATED PRESS— As Israel marked its Holocaust memorial day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Iran to the Nazis on Wednesday and warned the Islamic Republic must be prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons. Netanyahu linked the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews in World War II to Iran’s contested nuclear program and some of the…
DetailsBy BREITBART— Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that documented incidents of anti-Semitic attacks increased by almost 40 percent from 2013 to 2014. The research found that at least 766 anti-Semitic attacks occurred in 2014, compared with 554 incidents in 2013. The authors of the report explained that the anti-Semitic acts were “perpetrated with…
DetailsBy DAVID LAZARUS, ISRAEL TODAY-— “When I stood before the actual baby clothing, little dresses and tiny shoes that had been stripped off the infants being thrown into the gas chambers, I just couldn’t take it,” said Tehilah, one of the young Jewish girls who came to Auschwitz with a Messianic initiative called Yad B’yad, which…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— April 15th this year was not just the day to pay our taxes to an all-powerful and intrusive government. No, this year April 15th marked Holocaust Remembrance Day which should remind us of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its European allies against the stateless and hapless Jews a mere 70…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47, “Shemini” (Eighth … ) Haftorah: II Samuel 6:1 – 7:17 New Testament: Hebrews 8:1 – 6 Gospel: John 8:52 – 59, “Ani hu” (I am … )
DetailsBy ADL— Below is a partial listing of anti-Semitic incidences in France since the time when the Second Intifada spread to France. This is the continuing story of the uprising which began in Africa in the 1950 and today continues with the uprising led by the Islamic State. We need to bring 1,000 French Jews…
DetailsRomans 10: 13 “Everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved.”
DetailsI would like to introduce to our readers a new addition to The Jerusalem Connection team: Andrew McKain. Andrew is joining us as a contributing artist. He is an immensely talented singer and songwriter who has a unique talent for rapping as well, as he makes evident with his intense lyrics and rhymes in “Two…
DetailsBecause of the support of our generous donors, we have been able to help the Cabaret family move from France to Israel! Celebrate their homecoming with us! See below for their initial letter requesting help. There are many more just like this and we continue our efforts to help all the French Jews who are eager to…
DetailsBy NATHAN TAFT, THE DAILY— Earlier this year at UCLA, sophomore Rachel Beyda was initially denied a spot on the student council’s Judicial Board. Why? Because she was Jewish. As an openly proud, Star-of-David-wearing Jew who goes to school on a college campus, this didn’t surprise me as much as I wish it had. I’ve…
DetailsBy JOEL B. POLLAK, BREITBART— Russia announced Monday that it will sell Iran advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles. The decision, which ends an embargo dating back to 2010, shows that President Barack Obama is rapidly losing control of the international consensus on Iran. It also sets Israel a deadline to attack Iran–since Israel has treated the S-300…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— A brand new, first-of-its-kind Muslim college at Berkeley, California, received its accreditation March 15, 2015 from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Zaytuna College has two co-founders. One, Hamza Yusuf, states that this first Muslim college gives “our community its first accredited academic address in the U.S. And we…
DetailsBy CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST— It was but a year and a half ago that Barack Obama endorsed the objective of abolition when he said that Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility, its plutonium-producing heavy-water reactor and its advanced centrifuges were all unnecessary for a civilian nuclear program. The logic was clear: Since Iran was claiming…
DetailsThink on this: “I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.” (Revelation 3: 10) Pray on this: Father, we thank you that your Holy Spirit will reveal to us things to come. (John 16:13) and you…
Details“VICTOR’S CROWN” Written by: Darlene Zschech, Israel Houghton, Kari Jobe You are always fighting for us Heaven’s angels all around My delight is found in knowing That You wear the Victor’s crown You’re my help and my defender You’re my Saviour and my friend By Your grace I live and breathe To worship You At…
Detailsby JEFFREY HERF, TIMES OF ISRAEL— In the coming weeks, debate about the P5+1 deal with Iran will focus, as it must, on the details of the deal itself and whether, as President Obama claims, it will prevent Iran from getting the bomb or rather, as Prime Minister Netanyahu has warned, it paves Iran’s way…
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