The Liberalization of Judaism: Redefining Religion in Israel? By Marc Ellis
Recent articles in the Israeli and American Jewish press heralded or opposed the recent Israeli Supreme Court ruling that opens up aspects of Israeli religious life to the more liberal streams of organized Judaism. Most American Jews seem to welcome...
EU Parliament passes resolution condemning Israeli policies of displacement and home demolitions
On July 5, 2012, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Israeli policies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, focusing on home demolitions and forced displacement (see new UNRWA report on home demolitions and displacement). The resolution uses as background...
Levy Report says settlements legal and there is no occupation
The recently-released Levy report commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu’s office has concluded that not only are all outposts legal, but all settlement activity in the West Bank is legal. The report went on to reject the claim that Israel’s...
Homefront – video vignettes of Palestinian displacement in Sheikh Jarrah
httpv://youtu.be/dQmrCwGD9jM JustVision has compiled 4 eight minute vignettes of those involved in the home evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. There has been a recent concerted effort to evict Palestinians from their homes to make room for the...
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer – Home to Many
httpv://youtu.be/m4oCyZjMZOw If you’ve ever been to Jerusalem and wanted to worship in English, you may have been welcomed in the English-speaking congregation of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. The main Lutheran Church of the Redeemer is an Arabic Lutheran congregation, and also...
Settler violence against Palestinians and their land videoed by B’Tselem
httpv://youtu.be/90__-IUNfIM From Sarit Michaeli, a B’Tselem Spokesperson, in a recent B’Tselem newsletter: Last Saturday (26 May 2012), I witnessed events that I’d previously only seen in video footage or heard about from witnesses. During a meeting with B’Tselem volunteers...
The Biblical Text in the Context of Occupation
The Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb has edited a new book called The Biblical Text in the Context of Occupation: Towards a new hermeneutics of liberation. A wide variety of scholars write on the importance and meaning of the biblical narrative in...
Bishop Munib Younan’s New Book: Our Shared Witness
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Munib Younan, President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) has written a new book called OurShared Witness: A Voice for Justice and Reconciliation. Bishop Younan...
Jerusalem – Separate and unequal
Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day on Sunday, which commemorates the “unification” of Jerusalem after the 1967 war. An editorial in Haaretz, called the Lies of Jerusalem, argues that Jerusalem is anything but united: The wall that divides statements such as “We come with a...
ELCJHL Student on Why I Love My Family
httpv://youtu.be/mgbKvBY0CDQ Maya, an 8th-grader at one of the schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), speaks about her family as she wins the 8th grade English speech contest at the ELCJHL Educational Fair for 2012. The...