BY RICH TENORIO, Times of Israel— While the majority of American Jews sit down to a seder this Passover as usual, they might not be aware that many Christians will hold seders of their own. Some of the latter will present both the traditional Jewish narrative and the importance of the holiday to Christianity. Others…
By Sara Renee Miller, Times of Israel— Growing up in an evangelical home while toddling between three locations (Maui, Missouri, Maine), there was a surprising lack of ethnic diversity and outside information available. By this, what I really mean is that I didn’t meet my first Jewish person until just two years before grad school…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— In a move one prominent pastor believes will be the first step towards building the Third Temple, Jews and Christians are coming together on a project to give President Donald Trump major support for moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. The initiative began last month, when Rabbi Yehudah…
By JNS— Following a high-profile meeting with David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel, a group of more than 70 evangelical Christian leaders has issued a joint letter to the president expressing their enthusiastic support for Friedman’s candidacy. In the letter, the group expressed confidence that Trump “wisely selected a fellow…
By Dexter Van Zile, Israel Hayom— Yusef Daher is the executive secretary of the Jerusalem Interchurch Center (JICC), an ecumenical peacemaking institution supported by the World Council of Churches. Daher is no peacemaker, however. He is instead an ideological and theological combatant in the ongoing effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. He uses his status…
By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— A political document blamed by many for today’s Middle East crisis was motivated by the evangelical Christian faith of a uniquely international, cross-party, British war cabinet. This was the claim of Jerusalem-based Canadian Rev Dr David Schmidt in a London lecture marking the centenary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. This…
By Rev. Cheryl L. Hauer Israel is facing very real and imminent danger to her very existence; if ever the intercession of her Christian friends was critical it is at this very moment in history. This Sunday, January 15, 2017, has the frightening potential to join the ranks of those historic days that are known as…
By Brandon Showwalter, Christian Post— A new book by Christian scholars makes a theological case for Christians to support Israel while distancing itself from the “crazy” pop-apocalyptic end-time scenarios that sometimes animate such support in contemporary politics. Born out of a 2015 conference in Washington D.C. sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Democracy, The…
BY SAMUEL SMITH , CP REPORTER— Outspoken Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress has accused President Barack Obama and Sec. of State John Kerry of putting America on the “wrong side of God” after the United States failed to veto a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory East of Jerusalem. While speaking on…
By Earl Cox, Israel Always— When is enough, enough? Israel is at the point of the spear—multiple spears from the enemies surrounding her. Since emerging from the Holocaust and becoming a nation in 1948, Israel has endured two intifadas, 16 wars or operations, terrorism on the streets, relentless rockets from Hamas terrorists in Gaza, BDS…