Weekend violence rocks Israel

By TOMMY MUELLER, ISRAEL TODAY— This past weekend was one of violence in Israel. Immediately following Friday prayers, hundreds of Muslims rioted on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, hurling stones at police officers. On Saturday night, terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired a missile into southern Israel. And, one person was killed when his car…

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A new way to bless Israel and support the Jerusalem Connection

The Jerusalem Connection has partnered with From Israel To You, an exciting online retailer selling jewelry made in Israel. The company is dedicated to helping Christians and Americans support Israel’s economy. With every purchase, you are blessing Israel. The items are crafted by artists from all over Israel, with designs representing each one’s unique style.…

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Iran’s bomb in the basement

By CAROLINE GLICK— It is happening in slow motion, to be sure. But we are witnessing how a nuclear armed Iran is changing the face of the Middle East. For years, US leaders, including President Barack Obama warned that a nuclear armed Iran would spark a regional arms race. And this is happening. As the…

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Iranian commander: We have targets within America

By DAILY CALLER — A top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards boasted Saturday that his forces have plans in place to attack the United States from within, should the U.S. attack the Islamic Republic. “America, with its strategic ignorance, does not have a full understanding of the power of the Islamic Republic,” Brig. Gen. Hossein…

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Kerry has declared a war on God

By JEREMY SHARON, JPOST— Rabbis warn Kerry to stop negotiations “in order to avoid severe Heavenly punishment for everyone involved.” A group of hard-line nationalist rabbis wrote in an open to letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry that through his current mediation efforts between Israel and Palestinian negotiators he had declared war against…

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John Kerry, A bully in a china shop

By MICHAEL FREUND— Last February, barely three weeks after taking up his post as America’s secretary of state, John Kerry did something unprecedented: he invented a country. Speaking to students at the University of Virginia, Kerry was hailing the courage and dedication of American diplomats who serve abroad in the “most dangerous places on Earth.”…

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The Auschwitz Album Revisited: The message and stand of passionate humanism

By Dr. Inna Rogatchi,  curator of The Auschwitz Album Re-Visited exhibition in the Jewish People Memory & Holocaust in Ukraine Museum, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (from  January 2014); co-founder and the president of The Rogatchi Foundation Acclaimed American artist Dr Pat Mercer Hutchens started her work on her The Auschwitz Album Re-Visited series in 2006. The artist…

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Wish I’d said that

“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.  If I were an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.  If I were an atheist of the other…

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Remembering the Holocaust in S. Ukraine

By SHELLEY NEESE— While intense anti-government rallies spread throughout Ukraine, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk refused to let the country’s unrest cloud their recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On 27 January—while President Yanukovych battled with opposition leaders and protestors fortified their barricades—a group of 300 people gathered at the Memory of the Jewish People…

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Why the Palestinians Refuse to Recognize Israel as a Jewish State

By ALI SALIM, GATESTONE— The world watches while the Palestinian Authority is actively promoting a campaign for an academic boycott and economic sanctions to be imposed on Israel, evidently backed by veiled threats from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. First, every Muslim knows that the Jews in Israel are the descendants of the ancient…

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Video: John Kerry Solutions Inc. Israel Tour, February 2014

An Israeli satire group has posted a video to YouTube skewering US Secretary of State John Kerry for proposing purportedly “new” ideas to solve the Middle East conflict, while in fact the diplomat’s plan is made up of rehashed and failed concepts. One telling point in the video has the actor playing Kerry looking out…

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A crime against history and religion

By VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda infamously said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” He told lies about the hapless Jews and millions of Germans and other Europeans believed them and willingly participated in the Holocaust.…

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Trying to scare us

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Finance Minister Yair Lapid delivered a scary speech on Wednesday. At the Institute of National Security Studies conference, Lapid warned that if we don’t accept US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for negotiations, the Europeans are going to take away our money. Lapid claimed that Israel’s economic future is dependent…

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