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The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 4 in Year C is Luke 10.25-37, most commonly known as the Parable of the Good ...
A recent article at The Jerusalem Post speaks about meeting with the top Hebron sheikh who wants to pull out of Palestinian Authority.  The article claims that Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari is the leader ...
Five prominent sheikhs declare that they want to break away from the Palestinian Authority and recognize Israel as the Jewish state.The post Hebron Arab leaders back joining Abraham Accords appeared ...
The 12 tribes of Israel then notionally divide the territory (conquered and unconquered) between them. Judah’s territory is around Jerusalem and to the south.
“You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,” says the prophet Micah, “too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel” (Mi 5:1).
Our generation's prophets of destruction and prophets of consolation The role of the prophets is to look beyond the present. Rabbi Hagai Lundin Dec 21, 2023, 4:50 PM (GMT+2) ...
Jerusalem Post / Opinion The Hebrew Bible: Stories of kings, prophets and history of Israel - opinion The Hebrew Bible, although filled with stories of the Kingdom of Israel, there is a lack of ...
In the Book of Samuel, Saul, the first king of Israel, failed to reach a decisive victory against an enemy tribe, the Philistines. God sent the Prophet Samuel to Bethlehem and guided him to David ...
Later, when Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed by the Babylonians in 422 BCE (some say 586 BCE), the righteous Gedaliah was appointed ruler over the people of Israel who had not yet been exiled.
The very next year, Judah’s army lost a major battle and Judah himself was killed in 160 BCE. After this, Jonathan, the youngest of the five brothers, took over as leader, and fought the Seleucids.
Israel was no less of a beacon to these newly minted Jews. They, too, bore a brutal legacy: of colonialism, the Spanish arriving in Peru to conquer, to kill and to convert the local population by ...