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Originally published in Christian Today The boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) is ‘dangerously wrong’, according to the former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, now Lord Sacks. In a video posted on his website, he says: ‘Because beneath the surface, it is an attempt to delegitimise Israel as a prelude to […]
Originally published in Ecumenical News US President Donald Trump declared he was open to a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which includes the possibility of backing away from the “two-state solution,” a policy that has been maintained by past White House administrations for decades. The president aired his stand […]
Jan Smuts was one of architects of Balfour Declaration A political document which promised to return the Jews to their ancestral land was motivated by the evangelical Christian faith of a uniquely international, cross-party, British war cabinet that included the legendary South African Jan Smuts. This was the claim of […]
Book Review by Charles Gardener A unique journey of discovering Jesus, the Jew, in today’s Israel is offered in a new book. Bobbie Ann Cole, a Jew who found her Messiah in Jerusalem, turns tour guide as — with her pen in Love Triangles — she paints a fascinating picture […]
Shocking anti-Semitism as Britain prepares to celebrate As British Christians prepare to celebrate a famous milestone in Jewish history, battle lines are being drawn up and some shots have already been fired in anger. Passions of indignation from left-wing politicians and others are being stirred in response to plans for […]
Originally published in The Christian Examiner In its latest insult to the nation of Israel, the United Nations’ educational and cultural body (UNESCO) has adopted a resolution by a slim margin which denies the Jews’ ancient claims to the Temple Mount. In fact, the resolution makes no reference to the […]
Time to taste the sweet honey of following Yeshua I was looking forward, with some trepidation, to blowing the shofar in front of hundreds of schoolchildren last week. But in the end my wife, who teaches Christianity and the Jewish feasts to primary pupils all across our town, decided she […]
Whatever else you may say about Israel – though the cradle of Judeo-Christian civilisation, they are clearly now as secular as the rest of us in the West – they are currently being blessed by a leader who believes in the importance and authority of the Bible. And whereas former […]
Originally published in Breaking Israel News Biblical archaeology was revolutionised several years ago when evidence of the existence of the alleged kingdom of David was brought to light in the form of a fortified Iron Age town excavated in the Elah Valley by Hebrew University Professor Yosef Garfinkel and Israeli […]
Originally published in Breaking Israel News On Monday evening, a bomb went off in a crowded bus in Jerusalem, showering passengers trapped inside with deadly shrapnel and setting it ablaze. In what can only be described as a miracle, no one was killed. It is thought that a terrorist in […]