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Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  The "Antidote" To Anti-Semitism
by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Some people claim that Jews make too much of anti-Semitism. While acknowledging the existence of anti-Semitism in the past, these people argue that anti-Semitism today is mainly a private prejudice held by individuals that does not manifest itself in public acts of discrimination or violence.
But this is not the case. In fact, though I usually touch on the subject of anti-Semitism every few months, if I wanted to write on it every week I would have plenty of material. You might not know it from watching the evening news, but there is no shortage in today's world of violence and hatred against Jews or vandalism against Jewish institutions. A recent report from the U.S. State Department confirms this. The report, titled "Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism," states, "Today, more than 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is not just a fact of history, it is a current event," and finds that over the past decade anti-Semitism has indeed increased around the world. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Robin Brown said: "I grew up going to a Catholic school, I learned the Bible stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, David and Goliath, Samson, Moses, Abraham, etc... When I was 9 yrs old and in the fourth grade our teacher told us that because the Jews crucified Jesus, that they could never go to heaven or come back to God. All of a sudden an anger came up inside me as in my spirit I knew that was a lie. ... As I grew older and read the Bible more I found out that God is bringing His people back to Himself. ... Sad to say I've come across too many (as far as I'm concerned) "Christians" who have no heart at all for God's people. I think churches need to be made more aware of God's heart to the Jews." Posted by: Robin Brown, April 02, 2008 on IFCJ web site.
God says: "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins." ... "Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you."
(Isaiah 40:1-2; Romans 11:30-31).
The Jerusalem Connection says: I attended the meeting where the late Congressman Tom Lantos made his truly remarkable statement, "Christians are the Antidote to Anti-Semitism." I wrote about it in our magazine (read article). Congressman Lantos was right -- so far as he went. The truth of the matter is that it is not Christians in general or even evangelicals as a whole who will be the antidote to anti-Semitism. In the last analysis it is the Christian Zionists who will stand with the Jews during hard times and be the Corrie Ten Booms of our day.
| |  Child puppet kills George Bush Puppet on Hamas TV
A Hamas children's TV program this week featured a child puppet stabbing to death a George Bush puppet. The child puppet, son of an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother, with brothers from Gaza, confronts Bush on behalf of Muslim children from around the world, and accuses the Bush puppet of worldwide mass killings. The altercation ends when the child puppet ignores the Bush puppet's please for mercy, announces that the White House has been turned into a mosque and kills the Bush puppet. (Palestinian Media Watch)
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Aaron A. Kaplan is a symphonic film composer as well as an orchestrator, pianist, and songwriter. Kaplan's award winning song, "We're Coming Home,” was selected as the best Jewish song of the year in the United States. Aaron's "Symphonic Fantasy" was performed by the West Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and can be heard on this CD. Go to Track Listings | | | The Jerusalem Connection International
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