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Licensed Israeli Tour Guide, Dr. Tom Brimmer, shares the history behind the Jaffa Gate, one of the eight gates in Jerusalem's Old City walls.
Licensed Israeli Tour Guide, Dr. Tom Brimmer, shares the history behind the Jaffa Gate, one of the eight gates in Jerusalem's Old City walls.
By Rev. Peter J. Fast, Deputy National Director, Canada
The book of Ezra resounds with the crucial concept and powerful truth of restoration. The Hebrew word for “restore” is shuv, which means to return to a prior state, restore to a former condition or turn back. It may entail the actual physical action of turning or refer to spiritually turning from evil to God. The spiritual connotation puts the emphasis on the right motivation of turning from sin, namely to turn back to the Lord. God thus takes His rightful place as the focal point of shuv and sin does not steal center stage. Wilson’s Old Testament Word Studies explains the “conversion or turning to God” as “a re-turning or a turning back again to Him from whom sin has separated us, but whose we are by virtue of creation, preservation and redemption.” Continue reading…
Punishable by DeathBy Nathan Williams, Deputy International Administration Director
Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that everyone deserves the right to own property. Ownership entails the right of possession, the right of use and the right to transfer the ownership to someone else by selling, gifting or bequeathing. This right has become self-evident in democratic nations where private property ownership has become an important tenet of a free and fair society. Unfortunately, this is not the case for those trapped under the rule of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Toward the end of 2018 and early 2019, no less than three cases were reported where Arabs were convicted, accused or murdered for exercising their human right of selling their property to the highest bidder. Continue reading…
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