Educational Israel Tour Group for Christian Students Visits Knesset
17 Christian college students visited the Knesset Monday as part of a three-week workshop on Israel advocacy. The 10th annual Israel Experience College Scholarship Program prepares students to return to their home campuses and defend Israel against anti-Israel rhetoric. Participants are top students with strong diplomatic capabilities and they attend the program free of charge. […]
Pope Gets Off to Quick Start with Jewish Community
Pope Francis met this week with representatives of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, or IJCIC. This meeting, so early in his papacy, is seen as a positive sign for Jewish-Vatican relations. It is perhaps not surprising, though, as Pope Francis has a strong track record of good relations with the Jewish community in […]
Righteous Gentile Beatified by Italian Church
“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” (Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5) On June 15, over five thousand spectators gathered in Carpi, Italy’s Piazza of the Martyrs to beatify Odoardo Focherini, a man who worked throughout the Holocaust to save Jews until he himself was killed by the Nazis. Beatification […]
Miami Satirist Dave Barry Quips His Way Through Israel
“I would convert and make aliya if it weren’t for the camels”
Memphis Hosts Its Largest Annual Israel Festival
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! (Psalms 133:1) Memphis Friends of Israel plays host to annual Israel Festival in Audobon Park. On June 6, Memphis’s Audobon Park played host to the city’s sixth annual Israel Festival, organised by the Memphis Friends of Israel. The festival’s […]
800 Years of Christian Religious Treasures to be Publically Displayed in Jerusalem
For centuries, the Franciscan friars of Jerusalem and the Custodia Terrae Sanctae (Guardians of the Holy Land) have cared for a vast treasure of religious artifacts and artwork, keeping it secret, essentially, from the public. For the first time, two years from now, this treasure will be displayed across three new or renovated venues around […]
10,000 Signatures Presented to Knesset in Support of Jerusalem
This week marks the forty-sixth anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967. To mark this special date, 10,000 people worldwide added their digital signatures to the Jerusalem Covenant, a document proclaiming the city’s eternal unity as Israel’s undivided capital. The signatures were presented Tuesday to MK Gila Gamliel, Chairperson of […]
