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Messianic Jewish Leaders Oppose Presbyterian Divestment from Israel

By The Jerusalem Connection June 22, 2014

By the International Messianic Jewish community Amid continuing efforts to pressure and marginalize the state of Israel through boycotts and economic sanctions, the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, meeting in Detroit, June 14-21, will consider proposals to pressure Israel through financial divestment. Amid reports of growing worldwide anti-Semitism, the church’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network offers “Zionism Unsettled,”…

Judaism: Parashat Korach and President Truman

By The Jerusalem Connection June 22, 2014

By RABBI NACHMAN KAHANA, ARUTZ 7— When Harry Truman replaced F.D. Roosevelt as President of the United States it never dawned upon him that he would order the use of the Atomic Bomb. So what were the horrendous circumstances that forced him to unleash the most lethal weapon ever devised by man until that time?…

Presbyterians narrowly vote to divest from companies used by Israel

By The Jerusalem Connection June 22, 2014

By FOX NEWS— The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday became the most prominent religious group in the United States to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, voting to sell church stock in three companies whose products Israel uses in the occupied territories. The General Assembly voted by a razor-thin margin —…

Wish I’d said that

By The Jerusalem Connection June 22, 2014

“If there had been no Jews, there would be no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible, and no Savior. How much would any of us have without those five things? No wonder Jesus Himself said in John 4:22: Salvation is from the Jews. Every person who has received salvation through faith in Jesus owes…

Video: Mother of Kidnapped Teen Naftali Frenkel

By The Jerusalem Connection June 20, 2014

Racheli Frenkel, the mother of kidnapped yeshiva student Naftali Frenkel, 16, made an impassioned plea for her son on Sunday, as well as for the lives of fellow captives Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Gilad Sha’ar, 16. “They were just boys on their way home from school,” she stated, tearfully, to reporters. Frenkel thanked the outpouring…

Europe’s and U.S. Complicity in Kidnapping and Violence

By The Jerusalem Connection June 20, 2014

By RICHARD KEMP, GATESTONE— The world has undergone gut-churning revulsion this week at the videos of rows of kneeling young Iraqi men callously gunned down by Al Qaida terrorists in Mosul. But time and again, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Hamas has shown itself to be just as capable of such brutal…

ZOA says US policy on PA ‘nothing less than Kristallnacht’

By The Jerusalem Connection June 20, 2014

BY YNET NEWS— The Zionist Organization of America issued a harshly worded condemnation of the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, and slammed the US’ policy as “nothing less than a diplomatic Kristallnacht.” In the statement, the group described Hamas, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said is…

Families of terrorist-abducted Israeli teens refuse to succumb to despair

By The Jerusalem Connection June 19, 2014

By JNS— By Nitzi Yakov, Shlomi Diaz, Shlomo Cesana, Yael Barnovsky, and Ilan Gattegno, Israel Hayom/JNS.org— As the days pass following the abduction of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, the boys’ families are refusing to succumb to despair despite the uncertainty surrounding the situation. Hamas terrorists kidnapped Gilad Shaar (16), Eyal Yifrach (19), and Naftali Frenkel…

Spot Report: Messianics speak out against Presbyterians USA

By The Jerusalem Connection June 18, 2014

Think on this: “Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already…

UN, PA Suggest Israel Made Up Abduction Story

By The Jerusalem Connection June 18, 2014

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Senior officials from both the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday suggested that Israel might have fabricated the story that three Jewish youths – Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel – were abducted by Hamas terrorists last week. In remarks cited by Voice of Israel, Farhan Haq,…

Ignoring the elephant

By The Jerusalem Connection June 18, 2014

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it’s their own damned fault. As Honest Reporting documented, everyone from The Guardian to CNN, to Sky News to the Christian Science Monitor…

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Yad Vashem

By The Jerusalem Connection June 17, 2014

FOR THE NAME AND THE PLACE On the 60th anniversary of Yad Vashem Excerpt from DARK STARS, WISE HEARTS: Personal Reflections on the Holocaust in the Modern Times forthcoming book by Inna Rogatchi By Dr INNA ROGATCHI (C) Inna Rogatchi, 2014 – The Law to Remember I do not know anyone who visited Yad Vashem…

Time to topple the Palestinian Authority

By The Jerusalem Connection June 17, 2014

By MICHAEL FREUND— For over two decades, ever since the signing of the Oslo Accords, Israel has had to endure one atrocity after another at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Enough already! We were told that patience was in order, even as our ostensible peace partners sent young men strapped with explosive vests to blow…

Security Checkpoints prevent Terror

By The Jerusalem Connection June 17, 2014

By RON JAGER-— For the past four days, we the people of Israel have been holding our breath and praying for the safe release of Eyal Yifrah, 19, from Elad, Gil-Ad Shayer, 16, from Talmon and Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon. Both Frenkel and Shayer study at the “Makor Haim” yeshiva in Kfar Etzion,…

Truth Report: Romans 9:27

By The Jerusalem Connection June 17, 2014

Romans 9:27-29 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.” It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants,…

Rewarding terrorists with US tax dollars

By The Jerusalem Connection June 16, 2014

By EARL COX— Anyone paying the slightest attention is shaking their heads in disbelief over developments between two Middle East neighbors, the Israelis and Palestinians. The circumstances become more worrisome with a third party halfway around the world meddling in their affairs, the United States. Will President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry act…

PA condemns Israel for wide-scale arrest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members

By The Jerusalem Connection June 15, 2014

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— The Palestinian unity government on Sunday condemned Israel for arresting more than 100 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members in the West Bank in response to the Thursday kidnapping of three Israeli youths. The government also condemned Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip in response to the firing of rockets…

Blast heard as security forces surround Hebron house in search of Israeli teens

By The Jerusalem Connection June 15, 2014

By REUTERS— Gunfire and a blast were heard as Israeli troops searching Hebron for three Israeli teenagers abducted by terrorist surrounded a house on Sunday, witnesses said. Witnesses also reported that IDF forces fired a rocket at the house. Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported that three Palestinians were injured in the incident after the IDF…