Current News and Events

          CURRENT NEWS AND EVENTS ...

     Around the World and Close to Home

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• Is the Olmert Government Planning to Divide Jerusalem?

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202657414830&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

• Young Jewish People Turning to Other Forms of Judaism

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/us/28minyan.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=sl&oref=slogin

• WHAT IS A CERTAIN SAN ANTONIO PASTOR THINKING IN HIS CLAIM THAT JESUS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE THE MESSIAH? (YouTube Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8khCJTDD44

• THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IS CONCERNED ABOUT JEWISH EVANGELISM ... WHY ISN'T THE CHURCH?

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071115evangelicalpartI.html

http://storage.jta.org/special/messianics_rising.pdf

• Hamas Leadership and Their Real Feelings regarding Israel and the United States (WARNING:  Video Translation is Disturbing)

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1426wmv&ak=null

• Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony (Warning:  Video is Disturbing)

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1468wmv&ak=null

• Ethiopian Jewish People Are Coming to Messiah Jesus in Israel!

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070312falashmuramissionaries.html

• One Question -- What kind of mixed messages is the Church sending?

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=14032

http://www.abpnews.com/1717.article

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16785&intcategoryid=5

http://www.abpnews.com/1399.article

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1578973,00.html

• Political and World Headlines
  • Elie Wiesel Attacked in San Francisco Hotel by a Holocaust Denier

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251409,00.html

  • What is the President of Iran Trying to Accomplish (Letter to the American Public -- November 29, 2006)

  http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/iran_pres_letter.pdf

  • CURRENT NEWS REGARDING THE NATION OF ISRAEL (and Iran)
  • Secular Yeshiva ... An Oxymoron or What

  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659696248&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

  • Worldwide Call for all Jewish People to Return to the Land of Israel ... Hmm, what could this mean?

  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154526020126&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

  • Israel Feels as If It May Have to Have to Fight Iran by Itself

  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525933028&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

  • Iran Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons on Israel if the USA Attacks Iran (Blackmail Anyone?!)

  http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-02T150624Z_01_L02627060_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml&rpc=22

  • Iran's Long History with Nazism Revealed

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16133&intcategoryid=2

  • Iranian President Denies the Validity of the Holocaust

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178525,00.html

  • Israel Wants Iran Expelled from the United Nations

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_iran

  • Europe
  • Hungarian Jews Are Looking for an Identity

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16250&intcategoryid=2

  • Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Russia

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060112/ap_on_re_eu/russia_anti_semitism

  • Ukrainian University Known for Anti-Semitic Views Calls for the "Closing" of Israel

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16093&intcategoryid=5

  • Dutch Video Spoofs the Horrors of Auschwitz

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050810/ap_on_re_eu/auschwitz_video

  • Anglican Church in England Considers Divestment of Israeli Businesses

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15532&intcategoryid=2

  • Anti-Semitism on the Rebound in Europe ... Who Is Responding? (Who should be?)

  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120616705425

  • Central and South America
  • Brazilian Jewish Community Looks Towards Increased Kosher Certification

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16613&intcategoryid=2

  • Anti-Semitic Attacks on the Increase in Peru

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16083&intcategoryid=2

  • Bolivian Jewish Population Nervous about Government Unrest

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15603&intcategoryid=2

  • United States and Canada
  • World of American Academia Grows Increasingly Anti-Israel

  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498792678&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

  • Will Israel Find Support from a Conservative Canadian Government?

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16242&intcategoryid=2

  • Christmas vs. Hanukkah -- A Struggle for Intermarried Families

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16134&intcategoryid=4

  • Anti-Israeli Bias is a Growing Presence in U.S. Education Textbooks

  http://www.jta.org/schools.asp

  • U.S. University Graduate Students Blame Israel for the Lack of Peace in the Middle East

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15552&intcategoryid=

• Issue of Gay Marriage is Dividing Canadian Jewish Population

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15622&intcategoryid=2

• Around the World
  • Jewish Zimbabwean Community Continues Despite Age and Immigration

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15671&intcategoryid=5

  • Righteous Gentile and Japanese Ambassador from World War II Finally Receiving Long Overdue Recognition

  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1124158930160

• Judaism -- Past and Present
• Jewish History
  • Holocaust Denier, David Irving, Arrested in Austria

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175909,00.html

  • Aging Holocaust Survivors (in Israel) Struggle with Depression and Suicide

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123467496356

• Jewish Religion
  • What are Orthodox Jews in Israel So Afraid Of? ... The Truth of Messiah Jesus

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356723,00.html

  • Orthodox Jews in Israel Want Women to Go to the Back of the Bus

  http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1545926

  • Reformed Jewish Prayer Book ... Appeals to Even Atheistic Jewish People

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/us/03prayerbook.html\?pagewanted=2&_r=3&ref=us

  • Did Schneerson Try to Justify the Holocaust?

  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/865718.html

  • Longing for Messiah Continues . . .

  www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55765

  • Continuing Struggle of Intermarriage Affect the Children

  http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070308adultkidsintermarriage.html

  http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070308intermarriageadults.html

  • Lubavitch (Hasidic) Jews Struggle with the Idea that Schneerson is God

  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=824393

  • The Continuing Battle over Intermarrage and Ethnic Identity

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17552&intcategoryid=4

  • Struggle with Intermarriages Extends to the Grave

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17441&intcategoryid=4

  • Reconstructionists -- Struggle to Stay Small

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17294&intcategoryid=4

  • Orthodox (Ultra) Rabbis Prevent Examination of the Plight of the Agunah

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17246&intcategoryid=1

  • Synagogues Are Looking for Ways to Reach Out to the Unreached Community ... Why Aren't We?

  http://jta.org/synagogue.asp

  • Conservative Judaism Looks to Reach Out to Intermarrieds More Effectively

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16617&intcategoryid=5

  • Lack of Converts in Intermarriages Concerns Jewish Leaderes

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16526&intcategoryid=4

  • Conservative Judaism Struggling over the Issue of Gay Marriages

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16386&intcategoryid=5

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17355&intcategoryid=4

  • Jewish Leaders Worry about the Christianization of the United States

  http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20051206-105112-2176r.htm

  • Conservative Judaism Continues to Try to Find an Identity for the 21st Century

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16100&intcategoryid=5

  • Conservative Judaism is Struggling to Recapture Its Identity

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16071&intcategoryid=4

  • Reform Judaism Seeks Opportunities to Recruit Converts to Judaism

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16053&intcategoryid=4

  • Reform Judaism Looks to Increase Synagogue Affiliation

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16000&intcategoryid=4

  • Jewish Observances -- Outside of the Synagogue

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15932&intcategoryid=5

• Yeshiva for Homosexuals and Lesbians Proclaims Their Purpose on a Cross-Country Tour

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15904&intcategoryid=5

• A Group of Conservative Rabbis Consider Potential Place for Homosexuals in the Synagogue

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15586&intcategoryid=4

• Orthodox Judaism Confronting Issues of Sexual Temptation

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15606&intcategoryid=4

• Jewish Evangelism
• Thoughts on Reaching Out to the Jewish People

http://www.outreachmagazine.com/library/features/06novdecftrjews.asp

• Is Rick Warren Sending a Mixed Message ... or No Message at All?

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16012

• Is This The Approach That Should Be Taken?  You decide ...

http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR010305B.html

• "Why Christ Became a Servant of the Jews" -- John Piper Sermon (Worth a Read!)

http://www.desiringgod.org/library/sermons/05/120405.html

• Joint Prayer Services Have Value -- But Not at the Cost of Evangelism!

http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR121205.html

• Mainline Denominations Respond to the Reality of a National Israel

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1333160.html

• Question to Answer -- How will Benedict's XVI's interfaith dialogue affect the work of Jewish Evangelism?

  http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15517&intcategoryid=

• Non-Messianic Perspective of Jewish Evangelism

Why Jews Don't Accept Jesus -- from Jewsweek Magazine

• Rabbinic Bias Obscures Messianic Message of the Old Testament -- Baptist Press

http://www.baptistpress.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21030

• Orthodox Jewish Man Asks, "Are we fair to messianic Jews?"

http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Article%5El1757&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Opinions&

• Just Who Is a Truer Friend to Israel -- Evangelicals or Mainline Protestants

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119493345148

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