Red Alert: What Can You Learn from a Storyteller?

Dana Arschin, journalist turned storyteller—combines her professional expertise, her personal history, and her focused passion into a gift to the world via storytelling. She joins us today to share her story with us. Dana’s work with the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (hmtcli.org) brings the world access to individual stories that enlighten…

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Red Alert: When the Saturday and Sunday People Connect

This week’s guest is author Lela Gilbert. Lela is a Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom with the Family Research Council, a fellow at the Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedom, and the author of numerous articles and books.  Lela is also a board member of The Jerusalem Connection and a dear friend to our…

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Israel the Miracle

Through stunning, full-color photography and artwork combined with compelling personal encounters with the Land and people of Israel, you will gain new appreciation for the Land promised to Abraham and his descendants, the people, and State of Israel as Israel celebrates 75 years of independence. No place in the world embodies both historical and prophetic…

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Bible Fiber: The Edomites

Welcome to Bible Fiber. I am Shelley Neese, president of The Jerusalem Connection, a Christian organization devoted to sharing the story of the people of Israel, both ancient and modern. One thing that makes reading the Hebrew scriptures difficult is that while the Bible is telling the story of one people, the Israelites, other ancient…

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Red Alert: Native Christians in the land of Israel

Today’s Guest: Shadi Khalloul.  Shadi is an Israeli whose family lineage in the Holy Land dates back over 5000 years. Shadi is not Arab, not Jewish, not Druze, and not Bedouin. Shadi is a member of a small but formidable Israeli community known as the Aramean and Maronite Christians. These Christians are a Semitic people…

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Melodies of Memory: Felix Klein & His Quartet’s Unique Mission

By Inna Rogatchi, Rogatchi Foundation— A Violin on a Piano The first thing which grabbed my attention when entering a festive hall of the Residency of the German Ambassador in Vienna last Spring 2023, was a violin on a grand-piano. There was something special in this instrument, the sensation which one feels but not necessarily…

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Red Alert: Joy Amidst the Tears—Celebrating Hanukkah in Israel during Iron Shield

Continuing our series “Communion and Connectedness,” Shelley and I talk to Israeli writer Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz. Eliyahu shares his heart, through tears and smiles, and his experiences in Israel since October 7, 2023. Building bridges between the Jewish and Christian communities for many years, Eliyahu embodies the notion of Israel being “a blessing to the…

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Hanukkah: Caring Lights. Art, Light and War

By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— There is no other Jewish holiday about which I’ve created and wrote more than about these most dark eight days in any given year during which we are smiling and relaxed every evening being reassured by the growing number of candle flames in our various Hanukkiahs, being warmed up…

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Red Alert State-Side Update: Why Care What the UN Does?

Gil Kapen, Executive Director of the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI), stands at the forefront of an essential mission—to reverse the United Nations’ ongoing funding and narrative that unfairly vilifies Israel. What motivates Gil in his tireless pursuit of rectifying this situation? A peak into his family history uncovers a rich legacy of Zionism—a…

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Red Alert: A rabbi with a rifle shares his heart for defending life

A Rabbi with a Rifle Shares His Heart for Defending Life Operation Lifeshield’s Rabbi Shmuel Bowman joins this week’s Red Alert Communion and Connectedness series to share his first-hand account of life in Israel over the last two months. Join us as Rabbi Shmuel recounts his experience of the unfolding of events on October 7th. Having lost personal…

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