My heart breaks at all the violence breaking our across America and the world. We are witnessing a surge in hate crimes against Jews and Muslims all over the world. I wonder how many Pastors will address this hate in their sermons today. I mourn for the Jewish people the Palestinians.
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A Detroit synagogue president was found fatally stabbed outside her home Saturday morning.
Samantha Woll, pictured above, led the congregation of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, which confirmed Woll’s death in a statement. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President,” it said. Story Here
KOB TV Reports:
– People at a Jewish place of worship in Albuquerque had to evacuate after a bomb threat Saturday. It took police a couple of hours to clear the synagogue near Lomas and Jefferson. More Here
The fighting in Israel and Gaza is sparking concern about a surge in hate crimes against Jews and Muslims in the U.S., which have soared in recent years. More Here
Anti-Jewish threats on Telegram, a platform popular with Islamic State militants and white supremacists, surged by an alarming 488% in the first 18 hours of Saturday, according to the Anti-Defamation League, the oldest Jewish civil rights group in the United States. More Here
Got Questions states: Christians should definitely support the nation of Israel. We must remember that Israel, the nation, is very special to God. We read in Deuteronomy 7:6-8 these words: “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” More Here
Who are the Palestinian People?
The Palestinian people are an Arab ethno-nationalist group residing primarily in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Israel, Jordan and parts of southern Lebanon and Syria. Significant Palestinian communities are located in other countries as well, including Saudi Arabia and the United States, which is home to about 85,000 people of Palestinian descent according to a 2013 U.S. Census figure. There are roughly 13 million Palestinians in the world. More Here
What does the Bible say about racism?
Got Questions: The first thing to understand in this discussion is that there is only one race—the human race. Caucasians, Africans, Asians, Indians, Arabs, and Jews are not different races. Rather, they are different ethnicities of the human race. All human beings have the same physical characteristics (with minor variations, of course). More importantly, all human beings are equally created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to lay down His life for us (John 3:16). The “world” obviously includes all ethnic groups. More Here
Is Hamas in the Bible?
Pastor Don Kimbro: “Hamas,” the Arabic terrorist group acronym moniker of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (“Islamic Resistance Movement”), is also a chilling homophone in the Bible: violence. Genesis 6:11 says, “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence [Hamas: lit. חָמָס(ḥāmās)].” The Hebrew word “Hamas” is a noun meaning an act of aggression, but especially involving physical contact. Hamas was founded in 1987; however, the biblical word “Hamas” or “violence” reaches back to the earliest chapters of Genesis and is one of the significant reasons for the flood. More Here
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