By Elisa Moed.. After four months of lagging tourism numbers compared to the record-setting level of 2010, Israel’s fortunes seem to have turned as the number of visitors to the Holy Land in the month of May was higher than the same month last year – a 5 percent increase over the former record. (more…)
By Michael Freund George Washington did it. Stonewall Jackson did it. So did Norman Schwarzkopf, Horatio Nelson and Robert E. Lee. As different as they may have been from one another, these great military figures all shared one thing in common: before embarking on a fateful battle, they made sure to arm themselves with some much-needed perspective. Simply put, each of them prayed. (more…)
By Frida Ghitis…The holiday season has now ended, but not without leaving behind a trail of devastation and a rising sense of anguish among Christian communities in the Middle East. A series of deadly assaults and ominous threats – most dramatically the New Year’s church massacre in Alexandria – Egypt, and a threat from al-Qaida in Iraq to “open the doors of destruction and rivers of blood” upon Christians have raised fears that Christianity may not survive in the region of its birth. (more…)
By Andrew Roberts..I would like to speak to you today as an historian, because it seems to me that the State of Israel has packed more history into her 62 years on the planet than many other nations have in six hundred. (more…)
By Marjorie W. Eberlé-Gotlib… In an article I wrote in 1966 (entitled “To be or not to be”) I wrote that we were no longer “in”. Messianic Jews were no longer popular. For a long time we had been ‘the’ subject of dissertations, pocketbooks, lectures, seminars, themes for conferences etc. But by 1966 that had come to an end. (more…)
By Jeroen Bol…I want to bring the attention of readers of this website to Kendall Soulen’s book ‘The God of Israel and Christian Theology”, first published in 1992. This 195 pages book is extremely relevant in our endeavour to deliver Christian theology from its supersessionist legacy. (more…)
Is the Bible as we know it indeed the Word of God or is it maybe simply a human reflection of the revelation of God? (more…)
Today, Christians by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, by the tens of millions, stand with Israel. I salute you, the people of Israel salute you, the Jewish people salute you. (more…)
Published by Haaretz
The son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service’s most valuable source in the militant organization’s leadership, Haaretz has learned. (more…)
Characteristic of the history of the people of Israel is the continual desire for Zion, for Jerusalem, for the Holy City. Arising during the Babylonian Exile, it has continued up to the present day, after centuries of Diaspora, pogroms and extermination camps. (more…)
