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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Video: Victor’s Crown

“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…

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The Iran deal and anti-Semitism

by 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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“Peace, Peace, but there is no Peace”

By VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— Islam, which was described by no less than Winston Churchill as an ideology wrapped in a religion, will never allow its adherents to accept a non-Muslim state in land previously conquered in the name of Allah. That applies to Israel and equally to European countries it once occupied – Spain,…

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Messianic Judaism Flourishes in Holocaust Towns

By CHRISTIANITY TODAY— Nearly one year after Jews for Jesus launched one of its most successful and controversial evangelism campaigns, more than 1.3 million people worldwide have watched That Jew Died for You. The three-minute YouTube video depicts Jesus carrying the cross to a gas chamber. The film’s goal was to “reshape views of Jesus…

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‘A dream deal for Iran, a nightmare deal for the world’

By ISRAEL HAYOM— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to speak out against the framework nuclear deal reached between six world powers and Iran last week in Switzerland. On Sunday, Netanyahu did a round of interviews with American media outlets, appearing on ABC, CNN and NBC. “I think this is a dream deal for Iran…

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Israeli document poses 10 key questions about ‘irresponsible, dangerous’ Iran deal

By TIMES OF ISRAEL— Israel on Monday posed 10 questions to the US-led negotiators with Iran that it said underlined “the extent of the irresponsible concessions given to Iran” in the framework agreement reached last Thursday, and made clear “how dangerous the framework is for Israel, the region and the world.” The questions were listed…

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