Can this really be happening in the modern world?
Dec 18, 2014 | Christians and Minority Rights Originally posted at www.lelagilbert.com. Used with permission. The religious cleansing of Iraq’s Christians. Iraqi Mosul, Iraq/Saturday July 19: Terrified mothers and fathers…
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Israel unrest: ‘Missing you in the bomb shelter’
Dec 23, 2014 | Jews and the Jewish State Israel unrest: ‘Missing you in the bomb shelter’ Originally posted at foxnews.com. Used with permission. The bomb shelter I share with…
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Jerusalem Notebook: By the rivers of Babylon…
Feb 16, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook The expulsion of Christians from the cradle of Christianity in today’s Middle East, particularly in Iraq, has taken the western…
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Assyrian Christians: Remembering ‘The Year of the Sword’
Mar 1, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights | 0 comments I recently spent some time in New York City with Juliana Taimoorazy, a courageous and outspoken champion of the…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Reflections on Purim 2015
Mar 13, 2015 Back in my California days, I don’t recall hearing much about the Jewish holiday called Purim. Everyone knew about Passover and Hanukah, and our churches usually filled…
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Israel’s 2015 Election: Gone but Not Forgotten
Mar 30, 2015 The Israeli election is, thankfully, over. For a majority of Israelis, the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister was happy news. And although I couldn’t vote…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Passover – A Celebration of Freedom
Apr 12, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Sundown on Friday, April 10 marked the end of 2015’s weeklong Passover season in Jerusalem and beyond. It was…
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Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of Remembrance
Apr 23, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights In his Sunday sermon on April 12, “Pope Francis referred to the 1915 Turkish mass killings of Armenians as the ‘first genocide…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Egypt’s Coptic Christians – Braced for Persecution
May 25, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States One of the pleasures of living in Jerusalem is the ever-changing kaleidoscope of intriguing people…
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Persecuted Christians: In search of new beginnings and brighter tomorrows
Jun 3, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights, Muslims and Muslim Majority States | 0 comments My peaceful life in Jerusalem was interrupted by a hectic sequence of airplanes, meetings,…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Finding Hope Amidst the Flames
Jun 19, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Christians in Israel awakened on June 18 to distressing news. Overnight, angry vandals had attacked one of the loveliest…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Christians, Israel and Michael Oren
Jun 30, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jews and the Jewish State I have spoken with dozens of American Christian visitors to Israel during my…
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Airlifting Persecuted Christians: Lord Weidenfeld’s Debt of Gratitude
Jul 21, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights An unusual and touching human-interest story broke in The Times of Israel on July 16, recounting the remarkable efforts of a Holocaust…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Saturday People, Sunday People and the Wings of Eagles
Aug 4, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook Has America’s present administration turned a blind eye to the Christian massacres in the Middle East? Stories about this disappointing…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Celebrating Life in a Melting Pot
Aug 24, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State This year, summer arrived in Jerusalem on literal waves of heat. Fortunately – unlike in most of the sweltering…
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Jerusalem Notebook: California Dreaming
Sep 2, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Once or twice a year, I say goodbye to Jerusalem for a few weeks and return to the United…
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Jerusalem Notebook: The Temple Mount – Outrageous Lies and Escalating Dangers
Sep 21, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State It is good to be back in Jerusalem. After I spent a month in the United States, my return…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Where There’s Smoke, There’s fire – and Sometimes Anti-Christian Arson
Oct 5, 2015 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook I hadn’t been awake very long last Sunday morning when I opened a rather cryptic email from my friend Dexter…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Terrorism in Israel – an Epidemic of Hatred
Oct 9, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Muslims and Muslim Majority States On Saturday night, I welcomed my good friends Gary and Cindy Bayer for dinner.…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Shattered Hopes and Dreams on Bus No. 78
Nov 4, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Muslims and Muslim Majority States In its early days, the current Arab uprising in Israel brought almost daily violence…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Terrorism in Paris – A Conversation with Iddo Netanyahu
Nov 19, 2015 | Current Events, Jews and the Jewish State, Muslims and Muslim Majority States Late Friday night, I was headed for bed when an ominous news bulletin flashed…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Thanksgiving and the Giving of Thanks in Jerusalem
Nov 25, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Nearly a decade ago, my first Thanksgiving in Israel was a strange and a most unholiday-ish experience. After a…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Seeking Peace Where There Is No Peace
Dec 24, 2015 | Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Christmas with Turkey’s Christian Refugees
Jan 13, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States I was fortunate to meet Charmaine Hedding, a young South African Christian, during my first…
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A Visit to Europe: Refugees in the Shadow of Radical Islam
Feb 3, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Muslims and Muslim Majority States Most of us who follow the news have seen the heart-rending photos of weary parents holding beautiful,…
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Jerusalem Notebook: From Israel, with Love
Feb 12, 2016 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Just days after my family’s Christmas and New Years celebrations ended in California, and before I returned to Israel,…
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Jerusalem Notebook: American Elections – What do Israelis want to know?
Mar 1, 2016 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Living in Israel during the present American election cycle definitely has its pros and cons. The pros have to…
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Jerusalem Notebook: An Easter Remembrance of Persecuted Christians
Apr 6, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State I left Israel just two days after Easter. But though I’d been busy preparing to…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Armenians, Artsakh and the Invisible Hand
May 3, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook Sunday, April 24 commemorated the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The day was observed by the world’s Armenian churches…
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Jerusalem Notebook: An Outrageous Anti-Christian Attack in Egypt
Jun 2, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States | 0 comments Encouraging reports continue to emerge about significant improvements in Israel’s relationship with…
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Jerusalem Notebook: 40 Years after Entebbe – An Interview with Iddo Netanyahu
Jul 3, 2016 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Independence Day is the most joyful summer holiday in America. The Fourth of July is fêted with barbecues, outdoor…
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Jerusalem Notebook: The Silent Struggle of Bethlehem’s Christians
Aug 1, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook It’s a surprisingly short drive from West Jerusalem to Bethlehem – 10 or 15 minutes, at the most. But on…
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Jerusalem Notebook: An Enormous Funeral for an Enigmatic Israeli Leader
Oct 4, 2016 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State One of the best known and most widely admired Israeli statesmen died on Sept. 28. After suffering a massive…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Reflections on Yom Kippur
Oct 12, 2016 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State I first arrived in Israel in 2006, and my move into a little Jerusalem apartment coincided very closely with…
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Persecuted Christians: Eyewitness Accounts from Iraqi Christians
Nov 14, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Current Events It is painful to recall the events of late summer 2014, when the Islamic State killed or expelled thousands of…
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Jerusalem Notebook: A New Year in a Broken World
Jan 1, 2017 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Those who have the healthy habit of working out at a gym several times a week will soon be…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Jews, Christians and Another Deadly Jihadi Pogrom in Egypt
Mar 3, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Perspectives From the lips of a little child – an 8-year-old girl from El Arish, Egypt –…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Israel, Fake News and the ‘Apartheid State’
Mar 22, 2017 | Christians and Minority Rights, Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jews and the Jewish State When I first set foot in Jerusalem in August 2006 –…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Hatred, Courage and the Israeli-Saudi Connection
Mar 31, 2017 | American Foreign Policy, Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State During recent years, dramatic political changes have shaken the Middle East. Some…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Passover – The Remembrance of Suffering, Enslavement and God-Given Freedom
Apr 10, 2017 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Perspectives, Religious Freedom and Dialogue Holidays in Israel are interwoven into daily life so beautifully that to me, after…
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Jerusalem Notebook: Reflections on Holocaust Memorial Day
Apr 24, 2017 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Once a year in Israel, when spring flowers are at their most beautiful, it happens at precisely 10 a.m.…
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Egypt Attack On Coptic Christians: Wake up, President Sisi! ISIS is Murdering Your Christian Children
May 31, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States The following column first appeared in Fox News Opinion on FoxNews.com, the website of the Fox News…
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Jerusalem Notebook: On the Golden Anniversary of the Six-Day War, We Remember a Time of Miracles
Jun 5, 2017 | Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State Every year in Jerusalem, when early June arrives, poignant recollections of the Six-Day War come to mind. We remember…
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Jerusalem Notebook: The U.S. Embassy – to Move or Not to Move?
Jun 13, 2017 | American Foreign Policy, Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State The United States Embassy to Israel has been located in Tel Aviv since the…
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