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Houston, Texas has a large Indian American Christian community but many of the churches are not engaged to support Israel. The host pastor who was part of my last Pastors Israel trip has been teaching his congregation about the importance of supporting Israel and the Jewish people.
He has a strong burden to share the mission of CUFI with other...
Iran on Friday executed three men convicted of killing security force members during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death last year, the judiciary said, drawing condemnation from rights groups.
Read more: The Time of Israel
The White House is pressing for an Israeli-Saudi peace deal in the next six months before U.S. President Joe Biden goes into full campaign mode, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
As every year, the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research published its Yearbook with data that paints as recent a picture of Jerusalem as possible. Although reflective of the previous year (in this case, 2021 -2022), the data serves to provide a picture of emerging trends over the years.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of an Arab summit on Friday, where he was set to address leaders who have remained largely neutral on Russia’s invasion of his country, including many who maintain warm ties with Moscow.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A bipartisan bill requiring the US secretary of state to submit annual reports on inciteful and antisemitic Palestinian educational material has been introduced to Congress and unanimously passed in the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday that despite the many threats Israel faces, it will continue to build up its “eternal capital” Jerusalem.
The comments came ahead of Jerusalem Day, an annual holiday celebrating the reunification of the city in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The US recently proposed to Israel that Washington and Jerusalem engage in “joint military planning” vis-a-vis Iran, according to a report Wednesday citing US and Israeli officials.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Deborah Lipstadt, the US State Department’s top envoy combating antisemitism, condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for likening Israel to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A broken chalkstone inscribed with seven rows of mundane text sheds new light on who could read and write 2,000 years ago in ancient Jerusalem. Discovered during excavations of the City of David’s Pilgrimage Path, the partial inscription appears to be a merchant’s accounting record that lists names, measures and numbers.
Read more: The Times of...
Russian and Iran signed an agreement Wednesday to finance and build a railway line that will form part of a developing international cargo route they hope can become a major player in global shipping.
Read more: The Times of Israel
This was a first time CUFI event held at this church. This is a CUFI-NM donor church. The event went very well. Pledge cards were signed and responses were very encouraging.
There are about 1.5 million Asian Americans in Los Angeles and many of their churches have not heard of CUFI. The host pastor invited another congregation to join his church at my event. He is a CUFI Israel Trip alumnus and has been actively sharing the mission of CUFI to other pastors in his city. He also encouraged his congregation to join CUFI...
I was privileged to table four days at the Annual Alaska Ministry Network Conference, held this year in Fairbanks at True North Church. The event was well attended. Even though my display table was positioned a bit out of the main traffic flow, I still made many connections, had great conversations and distributed our materials to the pastors...
An early Hebrew inscription from Mount Ebal near Nablus that was found on a folded lead tablet during an excavation in the 1980s recently underwent x-ray tomographic measurements to reveal hidden text.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israeli forces exchanged fire with armed Palestinians in the West Bank on Tuesday morning, the military and Palestinian media said, as tensions remained high days after Israel agreed to a ceasefire with the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad following several days of violence.
Read more: The Times of Israel
As the truce between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad entered its third day on Tuesday, Israeli police were busy clearing out the dangerous rocket remnants that remain scattered around the southern part of the country.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
There is no proof of Jewish ties to the area of Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday at the United Nations. He mentioned Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount and its adjacent Western Wall.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown shoes worn by children before they were murdered in gas chambers.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel announced Sunday that a Palestinian laborer from Gaza who was killed in a rocket attack while working in southern Israel on Saturday will be recognized by the state as a victim of terror.
Read more: The Times of Israel
