Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day

My friends, we're taking a break from our study to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.  While International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated in January, Israel commemorates Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah (“Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Heroism”)  today. At 11:00am (Israel time) sirens will sound for two minutes and the entire country will come to a standstill, remembering …

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Word from Jerusalem – April 2017

Shabbat Shalom! The latest issue of Word from Jerusalem, published by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, is now available.  This month's issue contains the following: "Before the Rooster Crows" - an article featuring a look at Peter's denial of Jesus, and the place in Jerusalem where that occurred.  Here are pictures that will give a visual perspective …

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Ezekiel 36: Scattering and Gathering

My friends, we are approaching the last section of the study I have entitled Why Israel Matters: Rightly Relating to Our Jewish Roots.  Next week, we will conclude the study with a section called, "The King is Coming!"  If you have joined us around the study table, you won't want to miss the capstone of the …

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Syrian Defector: “I just could not gas my people”

News is still abuzz about the chemical weapons deployed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on his own citizens.  Following that attack during the first week of April, the United States responded with airstrikes on the Syrian base where those weapons had been stored and deployed. Since that time, Assad ally, Russia, denied a chemical attack, …

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