By Howard Flower, ICEJ Aliyah director. The Jewish Agency has made an official and urgent appeal to help the Jews of Ukraine make aliyah. Winter is fast approaching and many Jewish people are displaced from their home and need special care and help. At the end of September 3,867 Olim had made aliyah from Ukraine…
The Jewish People: Rejected or Beloved? by David Reagan What is God’s Relationship to the Jewish People? Have the Jews ceased to be God’s Chosen People? Are they guilty of the unforgivable sin of “killing God”? Has God replaced them with the Church? Has God transferred their promises to the Church? Have they lost all…
Dear Friends, Many of you have shared our pain over the three murdered Israeli teenagers: Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Sha’ar and Naftali Frenkel; and many of you liked Inna Rogatchi’s photograph which she produced in memory of the boys. The photograph was published, along with Inna and Michael’s tribute and Inna’s essay, in memory of the boys both in…
In loving memory of Martha Patricia Mercer Hutchens February 22, 1937 – March 31, 2014 Song written and composed by Andrew McKain
Dear friends of The Jerusalem Connection, On Monday night at 11pm, Pat Mercer Hutchens went to be with her Savior in Heaven. After enduring a grueling battle with ovarian cancer for many years, the doctors informed Pat and Jim two weeks ago that they no longer had any treatment options. Her earthly body was rapidly…
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.…
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…
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…
Christians, Jews and Israel Standing Together in Troubled Times Presented by Dr. Richard Booker, Sounds of the Trumpet Saturday, February 22nd, 9am to 3pm East Hempstead, Texas Now more than ever, Christians and Jews must stand together in these troubled times. We can no longer maintain the status quo of being separated due to historical…
By INNA ROGATHCHI— A special exhibition of The Auschwitz Album Re-Visited will be opened at the Jewish People Memory and Holocaust Museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in commemoration of the International Holocaust and Remembrance Day at the end of January 2014. The exhibition–representing the unique art work by the well-known American artist Pat Mercer Hutchens–is curated…