What framework agreement?

By DARYL HEDDING, ICEJ at ISRAEL ANSWERS— The first thing to note about the framework agreement is that there is no framework agreement. Though an announcement was made at the end of recent talks in Lausanne that a so-called framework agreement had been reached with Iran over its renegade nuclear program, nothing was signed by…

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Quote of the Week

“The Holy One, blessed be He, created days, and took to Himself the Sabbath; He created the months, and took to Himself the festivals; He created the years, and chose for Himself the Sabbatical year; He created the Sabbatical years, and chose for Himself the Jubilee year; He created the nations, and chose for Himself…

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Yom Ha’atzmaut for Kids

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…

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Israel’s Netanyahu Likens Iran To Nazis

By 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…

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Study: Global anti-Semitic attacks increased 40 percent in 2014

By 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…

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Messianic Initiative helps bring Holocaust healing

By 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…

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There is a storm coming

By 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…

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Two by Two: Behind the Music

I 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…

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The creep of anti-Semitism onto college campuses

By 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…

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Countdown to Israel attack: Russia lifts ban to missile sales on Iran

By 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…

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Islam boldly infiltrating America at alarming rate

By 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…

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The Iran deal: Anatomy of a disaster

By 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…

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