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IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / News Briefs / Lebanon / Hezbollah

Church in Israel Hit By Hezbollah Rocket, Civilian Injured

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Another anti-tank missile was fired at the area after Israeli forces arrived on the scene.

Jewish / Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Christians, Rabbi, Druze, No Muslims at Interfaith Meeting in Restored Church with President Rivlin

By JNi.Media

'The last time I was here, we stood together and looked at the burnt walls and the terrible graffiti. Today, I visit here again, and see the renewal of this historic, special, and holy place.'

The Tamar Yonah Show

The Tamar Yonah Show - Pointing a 'CAMERA' at the 'Church'

By Israel News Talk Radio

Why Jews might cringe a bit when they hear the word ‘Church’.

Israel / News Briefs / Religion / Archaeology

Byzantine-Era Lamb Sculpture Discovered at Caesarea Port

By Jewish Press News Desk

Archaeologists discovered a Byzantine-era marble sculpture of a lamb Thursday morning in excavations at Caesarea port in the Caesarea National Park, Experts suggested that the lamb served as part of the decoration in the 6th-7th century CE church that was discovered adjacent to the ancient port.  

Israel / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Police Arrest Suspects in Church of Bread and Fish Arson

By JNi.Media

The Shin Bet and the police issued an edict preventing the suspects from meeting with a lawyer for five days.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religion

2 Days After Pope's Visit, Bethlehem Church Fire Not Arson?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just two days after the Pope visited Bethlehem, there was a fire in the Church of the Nativity. Coincidence?

Israel / News Briefs / Religion

Major 1,500-Year-Old Church and Mosaic Discovered

By Jewish Press News Desk

This archaeological discovery will save Jews from living in homes built over the remains of a church.

Government / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Pope Will Enjoy Netanyahu’s Gift If He Has Guilty Conscience

By JTA

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presented  Pope Francis Monday with a copy of the book “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a Tel Aviv scholarly publication of some of the worst things the Catholic Church has done to Jews. The book was written by the Prime Minister’s late father Benzion, who wrote of […]

News Briefs / Germany / Judaism

Council of Jews in Germany Awards Pastor Who Defends Circumcision

By JTA

A German pastor who defended Jews’ rights to ritual circumcision will receive the highest award of the Central Council of Jews in Germany in ceremonies in Berlin Thursday evening. The awarding of the Leo Baeck Prize will honor Nikolaus Schneider, 66, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany – the country’s main […]

News Briefs

Tea Party Preacher’s ‘False Religion’ Remark Upsets Jews

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

“Non-Christians have a false religion" but the Jews are an exception, says a Virginia Tea Party preacher-candidate in a splendid show of how to put your foot in your mouth.

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Religion

Nearly One-Third of Syria’s Christians Have Fled Their Homes

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Nearly one-third of Syria’s native Christians have fled their homes during the Syrian civil war, according to Syrian Christian leader Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham. He said that more than 450,000 Christians out of an estimated 1.75 million have been displaced or have left the country since the Syrian civil war began in […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism / European Union

Council of Europe Says Ritual Circumcision Won’t Be Banned

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Sometimes anti-Semitism is its own best antidote because it makes its sewage makers look as ignorant as they are. After a Council of Europe body said circumcision violates human rights, its leader rejected the idea.

US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Religion / Judaism

An IMAX Film of the Jerusalem You Never Have Seen Before (Video)

By JTA

Move over Kohn Kerry and let the moviemakers take over. It took five years of negotiations for an IMAX visual tour of Jerusalem, including the three major religions, to come to the screen.

Op-Eds

The Degradation of Christian Women under Islam

By Raymond Ibrahim

Meanwhile, in Egypt, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson was urging Christian Copts not to protest Muslim Brotherhood rule, even though they would suffer under it most.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism

Maryland Jews Battle $1 Million ‘Jewish Christian’ Crusade

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Jews’ worst enemies are Jews. Tom Cantor says he was born into a Jewish family. He is trying to convince Maryland Jews they can be Jews and Christians. Even worse, he says “I love my people.”

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religion / Holocaust

Archbishop of Canterbury to Visit Western Wall and Al Aqsa Mosque

By Jewish Press News Desk

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is scheduled to arrive in Israel Wednesday as part of a five-day trip to the Middle East. The archbishop is making sure to honor all three major religions, with visits planned to the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. […]

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religion

Greek Church’s ‘Eye or an Eye’ Blocks Jerusalem Festival

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem said Tuesday that it will not allow Jerusalem to use church property in the Old City for a festival because of alleged police action against Christians, according to WAFA, the official website of the Palestinian Authority. Patriarch Theophilos III add that the festival "does not reflect in any way […]

Jewish / NY / Politics / News Briefs / Religion

Weiner Misses Queens Memorial Day Parade to Speak at Church

By Jewish Press News Desk

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner passed up the annual Memorial Day parade in his former Queens district on Sunday in order to speak at a half-empty church. “I was, like, ‘Where’s Weiner?!’” Forest Hills resident Frankie Esposito told the New York Post.  “I figured he’d come out to see his constituents. I don’t […]

News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Settlements / Holocaust

Church of Scotland Thinks Twice, Grants Israel the Right to Exist

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Church of Scotland has called last week’s publication of a Church and Society Council report that denies Israel’s right to exist a “misunderstanding” and now says the Jewish state can remain as part of the world. The Jewish communities of Scotland were shocked by the report, and the local Council of Christians and Jews […]

Israel / News Briefs / Religion / Archaeology

Rare 1,500-Year-Old Wine Press and Church Model found in Israel

By Jewish Press Staff

The ancient port of Ashkelon was a key point for trading Israeli wine. Archaeologists have unearthed a huge wine press and rare ceramic church model near the city’s old highway.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / Global / News Briefs

Oren Opens AIPAC with Appeal to Non-Jews for Pro-Israel Outreach

By JTA

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington, opened the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC)annual policy conference with an appeal for pro-Israel outreach to African Americans, Latinos and Muslims and others. "Reach out to the churches in your community, to the African Americans, the Latinos, to the mosques," Oren said Sunday after he was asked what […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

Goodbye to a Good Pope

By Harry Maryles

The relationship between the Jewish people and the Catholic Church has never been better. And the current Pope deserves credit for that.

Glimpses Into American Jewish History

Preserving Baltimore’s First Synagogue (Part I)

By Dr. Yitzchok Levine

While it is not known precisely when Jews first settled in Baltimore, we do know that five Jewish men and their families settled there during the 1770s. However, it was not until the autumn of 1829 that Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, whose Hebrew name was Nidchei Yisroel (Dispersed of Israel), was founded. This was the only Jewish congregation in the state of Maryland at the time, and it was referred to by many as the “Stadt Shul.”

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Last Orthodox Shul in Fall River, Massachusetts Becomes Church

By Malkah Fleisher

Congregation Adas Israel, the last of several orthodox synagogues that once served the Jews of Fall River, Massachusetts – will be handing the keys over to a new group of worshippers – congregants of The Word of Life Community Church.

Op-Eds / Khaled Abu Toameh

Ethnic Cleansing of Christians in the Sinai

By Khaled Abu Toameh

In events being ignored not only by the Egyptian authorities, but also by the mainstream media and human rights organizations in the West, Muslim terrorists have in recent weeks attacked Christian families and forced them out of their homes and businesses in the Sinai town of Rafah. The terrorists have threatened to pursue their jihad against Christians until all of them leave the Sinai.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Atrocity of Ignorance and Fanaticism

By Harry Maryles

Recent anti-Christian acts are due to a culture of hatred of the goy (non-Jew) that permeates certain circles.

Lessons In Emunah

Important Moments In Becoming A Ba’al Teshuvah (Conclusion)

By Alan Magill

Feeling more alone than at any time since arriving in New York, I looked inside myself for anything that could anchor me to bring me back to who I was, to move away from illusions of romance to my central sticking point. Suddenly and unexpectedly, being a Jew meant more to me than anything else in the world.

Lessons In Emunah

Important Moments In Becoming A Ba’al Teshuvah (Part I)

By Alan Magill

You don’t become a ba’al teshuvah overnight. There were many events in my life that contributed to the deepening of my religious commitment, including a party I attended with young, beautiful church members who tried to make me one of them, and how I met their “Jewish priest.” (I’ll discuss both experiences during the course of this continuing column.)

Global / News Briefs

Report: Western Governments Fund Anti-Israel Church Activism

By Jacob Edelist

A report by NGO Monitor reveals that several western governments providing funds for Church-based efforts to delegitimize Israel.

US / Local

Fearing Anti-Mormon Prejudice, Romney Plays Down His Religion

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney’s Lacrosse moment awaits him. The Democratic convention in Los Angeles was where Joe Lieberman made history as the first Jewish candidate on a major ticket on Aug. 17, 2000. But two days later, history came to life in Lacrosse, Wis., the little college town where Lieberman walked – and pointedly did not drive – to the local synagogue on his first post-nomination Shabbat.

News Briefs

Methodist Conference Could Vote on Israel Divestment Motion

By Jewish Press News Desk

Close to 1,000 delegates from around the world, representing 11-million members, are gathered at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference being held in the Tampa, Florida. Throughout the 11-day session, delegates will debate the future of the Methodist church, which has experienced a significant participation decline in the United States. Over the last 40 years, […]

Israel / Religion

Methodist Church Unanimously Rejects Divestment Resolution

By Malkah Fleisher

The United Methodist General Board of Pension and Health Benefits (GBPHB) voted unanimously againt divestment in three companies which do business in Judea, Samaria, and the Golan Heights, according to a report by the Israel Action Network, a project of the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Jewish / US

ADL Praises Mormon Church Prohibition of Holocaust Victims' Posthumous Baptism

By Jacob Edelist

"Without exception," reads the letter from LDS President Thomas S. Monson and other church leaders, "church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims. If members do so, they may forfeit their new family-search privileges. Other corrective action may also be taken."

US / News Briefs

Mormons Posthumously Baptized Anne Frank: New Claim

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Toronto Star reported that researcher Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who revealed the Wiesenthal baptisms, said this week she found Anne Frank’s name in proxy baptism records dated Feb. 18, showing the ritual was performed in the Dominican Republic. The new allegation came just a week after the LDS apologized for posthumously baptizing the […]

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Sister Rose Thering: Sister Rose's Passion

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Sister Rose's Passion is a documentary film on the life of Sister Rose Thering, a life that stood for love of Jews, for fighting prejudice, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter IV

By Barbara Bensoussan

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