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Brotherly Love in the Middle East
Healing the Oldest Sibling Rivalry in the World Ever since Isaac was born, there has been tension between the first two sons of Abraham. To help alleviate this pressure, Sarah told Abraham to send out Ishmael and his mother, Hagar. G-d was faithful to Ishmael,...
Hark! How all the welkin rings
Suspiciously Christmas-like decorations have begun to appear again in Jerusalem neighborhoods, parks and malls, though fewer than in the recent past thanks to the world’s most pervasive virus. But one will not typically hear Christmas music in public,...
Jerusalem Thanksgiving, 2020
Thanksgiving morning in Jerusalem, 2020, with our turkey properly stuffed and roasting in the oven, Marcia and I got a call from a British expat in town with whom we were doing business. “Good morning!” he began, “why don’t you chaps come down to the office...
Sleep of Reason
It was encouraging for Jerusalem residents to learn that the Copenhagen contingent of the international protests staged against Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, broadcast live worldwide on Facebook in August, “appeared to be [attended by] just one man.” That factoid...
A Star is Born
Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenlies and those who turn many to righteousness will be like stars forever and ever.” (—Daniel 12:3) Dr. Daniel Nessim is surely one of those of whom these verses speaks as were his parents, grandparents,...
Timeless Mantle
If a thousand years is as a day to the L-rd, then what is 25 years to old friends? And if that friendship is centered around music, ministry and worship, how then is the time relevance of that friendship and ministry measured? Twenty-five years ago, as a young Jewish...
Hanukkah in Israel
Growing up in an Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish family in suburban Maryland, and then moving to Southern California, I thought I was the expert on Hanukkah. Then we made Aliyah to Israel nine years ago, and I was totally proven wrong. The eight-day “Feast of the...
First UAE Article
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a political magician who has run out of tricks, and his stubbornness is stopping the Israeli right from winning convincingly and governing the country,” wrote Shalom Lipner, Senior Fellow of the Middle East program at the...
Lockdown, Part 2
Israel is locked down again. Some restaurant owners here smashed plates in the streets to protest the nation’s second round of coronavirus restrictions. Other citizens simply went without pizza. Upon learning that just under 12% of recent, ongoing nationwide COVID-19...
Measure of a Man
“The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels.” Paul Liberman is the past president of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA), the co-founder of Beth Messiah Messianic Congregation in Washington D.C. and Tree of Life in San...
Israel and COVID-19. A Microcosm of the World
Israel is recognized worldwide as the Start-up Nation. Hence, her accomplishments in science and medicine are better known than her needs, particularly with regard to healthcare. However, despite Israel’s growing population, the country’s overall healthcare budget has...
A Time to Be Silent
Three thousand years ago King David’s son spoke these words in Jerusalem: “There is a time to be silent and a time to speak” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). The recent murder of George Floyd in the U.S. catalyzed sobering results. It is time to speak out about how America got...
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