Red Alert: How Can YOU Help?

By Amy Zewe— How can you fight antisemitism and BDS and get a few holiday tasks completed? Simple! The Jerusalem Connection has several ways you can fight antisemitism, bring comfort to Israel and the Jewish people, and check off some of your to-do list. Pat Hutchens’ collection of paintings titled “Auschwitz Album Revisited” is now…

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The Auschwitz Album Revisited Booklet

Last February, right before the world shut down, all of us at The Jerusalem Connection, including Jim Hutchens, attended a long-awaited art exhibit at Liberty University. As many of you know, Jim’s wife, Pat Mercer Hutchens, went home to be with her Savior on March 31, 2014. In the four years before her home going,…

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The United Nations Attempt to Delete Israel’s Ancient History

By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBNISRAEL— Imagine waking up one morning to news that the Eiffel Tower is no longer considered French. That the pyramids are not Egyptian. And that the Statue of Liberty is not a beloved symbol of the United States. Your reaction would be astonishment. Yet, here’s a fact that is barely a…

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Former Trump advisor: Israel may act against Iran before Biden admin.

By Cody Levine, JPost— Former National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster for the Trump administration said in an interview with Fox News Thursday that President-elect Joe Biden should not rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal upon taking office in on January 20. McMaster said to Fox host Bret Baier that then-Secretary of State John Kerry…

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Malawi announces plans to be first African country in decades to open embassy in Jerusalem

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post— The majority-Christian nation of Malawi in southeastern Africa has announced plans to open an embassy in Israel and place it in Jerusalem by the summer of 2021. Malawi, whose president is a former pastor in the Assemblies of God denomination, will be the third country to open an embassy in…

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Enews: The Point of Biblical Archaeology

Archaeology is the study of material culture which is left from previous civilizations. Therefore, biblical archaeology is traditional archaeology, but it is conducted in the lands of the Bible: Egypt, Jordan but primarily Israel. I see biblical archaeology as any excavation or study of epigraphic materials that shed light on the biblical narrative or broaden…

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Red Alert: What Now?

Proverbs 3: 5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. This is what I have had written and rewritten on my heart since last Tuesday, Election Day in the US. No matter whom…

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Iran: Mullahs Celebrate What They Hope Will Be the Return To Their Nuclear Bomb

By Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute— The Iranian regime has excitingly announced former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s possible victory in the US presidential elections and is celebrating that the next US administration will, they hope, be from the Democrat Party. Iranian authorities view the chance that Biden might take over the White House as a definite…

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Copy-Paste: How Israelis Dealt With News of Biden’s Victory

By Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— One would think that with him being so unprecedentedly pro-Israel, Trump’s loss in the US election is Israel’s loss. But these days “pro-Israel” is understood quite differently by rival Israeli political camps. The Right still thinks that to be pro-Israel means a president should support traditional Zionist convictions, such as…

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UK’s former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks passes away at 72

By Times of Israel— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom whose extensive writings and frequent media appearances commanded a global following among Jews and non-Jews alike, died Saturday morning. Sacks, 72, was in the midst of a third bout of cancer, which he had announced in October. Sacks was among…

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The Rain That Becomes a Forest; Elegy of Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

By Inna Rogatchi ©   Rain, rain, rain, the rain of tears Unwalled tears know no ceiling. Rain, rain, rain, the rain of sighs  Bottomless sighs filling the air.  O soul of Ya’akov Zvi ben David Arieh,  You left the body of Jonathan Sacks  On the early morning of Shabbes.  It is a privilege that…

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Will Biden Pivot On Iran?

By Ilan Berman, Newsweek— How will a Biden administration handle the Middle East? Now that the results of the hotly contested U.S. election are (mostly) known, foreign policy experts and officials alike are turning their attention to that question. Over the coming weeks and months more particulars will emerge, as will the personalities who will…

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The Palestinian Appropriation of Black Pain

By Joshua Washington, Times of Israel—- In the early 1980s, African-American professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Clayborne Carson published a paper called “BLACKS and JEWS in the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: The CASE of SNCC.” In this paper, Carson gives much needed clarity…

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The Five Twenty Age of American Digital Propaganda

By Arlene Bridges Samuels— We are living in an up-side-down world. In Isaiah 5:20, the brilliant prophet describes our culture today, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” Propaganda is an ugly word that most Americans avoid using but it’s time to abandon…

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Jesus’ Overlooked Statement That Could Have Changed Jewish History

By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN— Is it possible that overlooking one of Jesus’ most profound declarations could have been a leading cause of the cancerous spread of anti-Semitism in churches and communities throughout the world? This cancer has endured for centuries, and the diagnosis is clear: It’s a malignant melanoma. Left untreated, this cancer is…

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Working Definition of Antisemitism

By International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)— The IHRA is the only intergovernmental organization mandated to focus solely on Holocaust-related issues, so with evidence that the scourge of antisemitism is once again on the rise, we resolved to take a leading role in combatting it. IHRA experts determined that in order to begin to address the…

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Palestinians Call for Boycotting Israel, Then Ask Israel To Save Their Lives

By Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat spent the past two decades calling for the boycott and isolation of Israel. In the past few months, Erekat, a PLO leader who previously headed the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel, came out against the agreements to normalize relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates…

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Documentary: The Story of the Ethiopian Jewish Community Searching for a Way Home

By ICEJ— The road to reach Jerusalem for the remainder of Ethiopia’s Jewish community has been a long and hard-fought effort. As God brought Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea so we are able to live in this exciting time as God, once again, clears every obstacle to bring His people back to…

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