– By Chana B. – Magical and mysterious is an ideal description of the Galilee and Golan regions of Northern Israel, areas steeped in history and tradition. Intriguing structures, several crowned with blue domes that sprinkle the land. Research has...
By Susan Silver – At the time of Purim we naturally think of the ancient town of Shushan, which is located just outside the modern western Iranian city of Shush. According to Dr. Hormoz Shariat, Shush contains what both Jews and Muslims believe to be the tomb of...
As he witnessed his father’s ordinary wooden casket being lowered into its grave, young Ernest Winter’s little heart cried out in protest, “Surely my father is not dead like an old stone! There must be more to life than this!” On the way home from the funeral he saw a...
– By Cliff Keller – Was Qasem Soleimani’s recent death a “moment of liberation?” Purim is many things to many people and, like most Jewish holidays, replete with paradox. It is the “classic account of our people’s confrontation with brute anti-Semitism,”...
Sign me up for the Seder- By Aaron Allsbrook – Pastor Lee marveled during the Seder at the collective memory of the Jewish people, the continuity of historical identity of the Jewish people, the “we were slaves in Egypt,” “our fathers,” and “the L-rd took...