By Amy Zewe Just a few bits of ministry updates from our end. Spring is in the air, we just celebrated Easter and Passover. The world is slowly opening back up with COVID mortality and hospitalization rates going down and vaccination rates going up. All good news! And as life is reborn this spring, we…
DetailsBy Aryeh Savir, Jewish Press— US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was received by his host Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Sunday in the IDF’s Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv. He is the first senior Biden administration official to visit Israel. Austin held a series of professional meetings with Gantz, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.…
DetailsBy Jacob Nagel and Jonathan Schanzer, Gatestone Institute—- Israel reported significant progress last month on an underground fence around the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Officials say Israel is close to completing the underground component and can see the finish line with the above-ground elements (roughly 80% complete). Once fully assembled, the three-layered barrier may be the…
DetailsBy Israel National News—- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Thursday night with Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett to discuss efforts to form a right-wing coalition. Before entering the meeting, Bennett said that “since the election, countless Israelis have appealed to me, really begging me, to get the State of Israel out of this ongoing chaos. I…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— The story of two Alexes appeared to me from old photographs, new documents, all kinds of papers, maps, clips, and fact leads of my ongoing art historical research with regard to the art looted by the Nazis during World War II, and on my family history as well. This…
DetailsBy Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe— LAST SEPTEMBER, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — an international organization that provides financial support and social services to survivors of the Nazi genocide — reported on a study of basic Holocaust knowledge among Americans younger than 40. The study comprised interviews with 11,000 millennial and Generation…
DetailsWhat is the latest campus craziness? And why do we care? We care because university professors are teaching our young adults how to critically think (or at least they are supposed to) and university professors are very influential on students and can, either on purpose or inadvertently, skew and frame students’ perspectives and knowledge on…
DetailsBy Daniel Salami,Yoav Zitun, AP, Ynetnews— The New York Times reported Wednesday that Israel informed the United States it had struck an Iranian vessel off the coast of Eritrea in the Red Sea on Tuesday. An unnamed U.S. official told the newspaper that “the Israelis had called the attack a retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes…
DetailsBy Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker— The Biden administration has made clear its intention to talk with Iran. Since every negotiation has to have an endgame, consider both parties to the proposed conversation and what they intend to get. Before the election, Biden told a journalist he wants to “build on” the JCPOA with a new…
DetailsBy Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN— Holy Week took on a new dimension for me on Palm Sunday night. My husband and I attended a Turner Classic Movies Fathom event on the big screen. The epic movie The Ten Commandments was shown as a tribute on its 65th anniversary. Stunning in every way, the movie had…
DetailsBy Tovah Lazaroff, Jpost— The Biden administration on Wednesday clarified that it considers the West Bank to be occupied territory, but ducked a question as to whether it held that settlements were illegal. “It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after the 1967 War,” US State…
DetailsBy Shelley Neese— On June 10, 2000, I married my college sweetheart. We met when we were both working as youth ministers at a chapel right next to Louisiana State University. Three weeks after our nuptials, we moved to Beer Sheva, Israel. I still had two semesters left of college to finish my undergraduate degree,…
DetailsBy Amy Zewe— Jewish students face widespread hostility—as told by Isaac De Castro, a Cornell student, who published in NEW YORK DAILY NEWS on MAR 29, 2021 I wanted to bring this article to your attention because it is vital that we all understand that bigotry and hatred have many forms, and some longstanding types are…
DetailsBy Gerald McDermott, Patheos—- I step with trepidation when I visit a new church in Holy Week. Typically the pastors and readers know little or nothing of the debates over the supposed anti-semitism in the gospel of John, from which many of the Holy Week texts are taken. So the readings often seem to pit…
DetailsBy Sharon Wrobel, Algemeiner— Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) issued a warning Monday that Iran is expected in the near future to continue targeting Israeli citizens overseas, as the country forecasts an uptick in international air travel. The warning comes as Israel has begun to lift travel restrictions this month that were imposed due to…
DetailsBy Israel National News— A senior member of the United Arab List (Ra’am) said that the party’s chairman, Mansour Abbas, is leaning towards supporting a right-wing government led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Kan News reported. According to the senior official, the support will be conditional on Itamar Ben Gvir not serving as a minister…
DetailsBy Shelley Neese— On the evening of March 27th, Passover begins. Last year, I remember thinking how horrible it was that Israel’s first lockdown for coronavirus had to take place on the most festive night on the Jewish holy calendar. Normally, throughout the Seder meal of matzah, wine, bitter herbs and charoset, the story of…
DetailsBy Ruthie Blum, Jpost— For the past two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s detractors have claimed that if he would only get out of the way – resign, retire or expire – the problem of electoral impasse would instantly be solved. The bulk of the media and left-wing public began chanting the mantra after elections…
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