What do Hanukkah Blessings tell Us About Christ?

Hi everyone!  I hope you are enjoying a little bit of Hanukkah as we join with our Jewish friends in celebrating the miracle that happened!  We're in the midst of a series of posts about Hanukkah, so if you don't know what that miracle was, please review: Hanukkah 2017 is Coming What is Hanukkah About? …

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Incredible Archeological Findings at the City of David

Around 2010 or 2012 I first saw the City of David.  I don't recall if it was freshly opened or if it simply was not well-excavated enough to be a hot tourist spot prior to that.  But what I realized the first time there was that this was an incredibly important place of discovery.  If …

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Hanukkah: Celebration of Light!

חנוכה שמח Hanukkah begins tonight at sundown and Jews around the world will repeat that phrase, meaning "Happy Hanukkah!"  (Pronounced: Cha-nu-ka Sa-maech, with gutturals on the 'ch' sounds!)  Yesterday we talked about the meaning and significance of Hanukkah and today we'll discover the focus of Hanukkah. The focus of the Hanukkah celebration is the Hanukkah menorah, …

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Why Isn’t there a Palestinian State?

Since the re-birth of Israel in 1948, conflict has reigned between Israel and her Arab neighbors.  The "conflict" has turned into the Israeli-Palestinian struggle over who has rights to the land.  Recently, following President Trump's public recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the Palestinian people were incited by their leaders to riot. The …

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