Does the Bible Support Replacement Theology? One text often used by supersessionists to support the idea of the permanent rejection of national Israel is Matt 21:43. In this verse, which Frederick Dale Bruner calls “one of the most important verses in Matthew,” Jesus addressed the unbelief of the leaders of the nation Israel and announced…
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Details*This is the recipe that prompted me to start a B’tayavon section for Jerusalem Connection. The recipe card I had for Israeli couscous was so stained with spices and smeared with olive oil that I could barely read it anymore. So when I started typing a back up copy I decided to type up a few more…
DetailsBy Michael Freund Each week for the past nine months, a small band of noisy left-wing protesters has been gathering in the heart of Jerusalem. Though claiming to be motivated by the highest of ideals, these would-be campaigners for human rights appear to have trouble respecting even the most basic of society’s ground rules. The demonstrators…
Detailsby ICEJ News For the second time this week, a senior Hizbullah leader has warned that the Lebanese terror militia has a detailed list of Israeli targets it would attack in the event of renewed conflict between the neighboring countries. Hizbullah has a “large and precise bank of Israeli targets” to strike if a third…
DetailsThe film, produced by the Eiland Team of Experts, breaks down the events of the flotilla using a timeline that alternates between 3D models and footage captured throughout the incident. The events leading up to and throughout the flotilla incident are recounted in the video, as presented by the team of experts led by Maj.…
Detailsby JTA.org According to the Gallup Poll, 63 percent of Americans say their sympathies in the Middle East conflict are with Israel, while 15 percent side with the Palestinians. The rest favor both sides, neither side or have no opinion. Support for Israel was higher only in 1991, shortly after Israel was hit with Scud…
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DetailsBy Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report 1. Faith, Morality, Commemoration and Optimism Underlining National Jewish Fasts: * Jewish fasts commemorate critical historical and value-driven junctions, highlighting moral clarity, which constitutes a prerequisite to operational and existential clarity. Memory is Deliverance; forgetfulness is oblivion. * Fasts highlight the difference between Oblivion (exile) and Deliverance (ingathering of…
Detailsby MyJewishLearning.com Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av (which month coincides with July and/or August), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews on this day, the major commemoration is of the destruction of the…
Detailsby Karin McQuillan, Frontpagemag.com Wikipedia is used by 68 million people a month. Google Jerusalem, Israel, the Holocaust, jihad – the first reference to come up is Wikipedia. Most users mistakenly think it is an encyclopedia. Actually it is a special sort of blog, self-styled “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” Open an article,…
Detailsby Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Iran’s domestic troubles and the Arab world’s fear of a nuclear Iran provide Israel with an opportunity to radically shift the region’s balance of power. We are entering troubling times. The conviction that war is upon us grows with each passing day. What remains to be determined is who will dictate…
Detailsby Israel Today More than 10,000 Israeli Jews gathered at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Monday night to remind their own government and the international community that the biblical holy site belongs to them. Israel National News reports that those gathered recited a “pledge of allegiance ” to a Jewish Temple Mount where…
Detailsby Barry Rubin, The Rubin Report Why was the meeting this time between President Barack H. Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a success? The answer is simple though not all the reasons are publicly known. So I’ll tell you about them. The president couldn’t have been more effusive. They had an “excellent” discussion, Netanyahu’s…
Detailsby Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Israelnationalnews.com Jerusalem’s planning commission ended the de facto building freeze Monday night by approving building 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev, where 50,000 Jews live in the northeastern part of the city. The Palestinian Authority claims the areas as part of its proposed new Arab country within Israel’s post-1967 borders.…
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