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And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.(Exodus 3:4-6)And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt...

An important new statement from the Vatican on the relationship between the Catholic Church, the Jewish people, and Jesus Christ makes many praiseworthy points. At the same time, it misunderstands Jesus' own mission to His Jewish people, thereby undermining fundamental tenets of the New Testament along with the very nature of the apostolic witness.

Jews Denied Security Clearance While Huma Infiltrates the Government How the administration treats a Jewish dentist with family in Israel compared to an Islamist ally. December 24, 2015 Joseph Klein The Obama administration's anti-Israel sentiment knows no bounds. The latest example involves the denial of a security clearance to a Jewish-American dentist, Dr. Gershon Pincus, on the grounds that he has "divided loyalties." All that Dr. Pincus wanted to do was to use the experience and skills he had gained over a lifetime of private practice to give back to his country - the United States of America. He...

Jerusalem (AFP) -- French immigration to Israel reached a record high in 2015, Israeli officials said Thursday, citing "physical insecurity and financial uncertainty" as main driving forces. Around 8,000 French Jews were expected to have arrived over the course of the year, a spokesman for Israel's immigration ministry told AFP, noting it would be an "all-time record". Final data for 2015 was not available yet. France's Jewish community is estimated at between 500,000 and 600,000 people, the largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. In January, after four Jews were murdered in an attack on a...

The Obama administration's anti-Israel sentiment knows no bounds. The latest example involves the denial of a security clearance to a Jewish-American dentist, Dr. Gershon Pincus, on the grounds that he has "divided loyalties." All that Dr. Pincus wanted to do was to use the experience and skills he had gained over a lifetime of private practice to give back to his country – the United States of America. He wanted to serve American troops as a dentist at an off-base U.S. Navy clinic. Nothing doing, decided the Obama administration after a second security investigation of the dentist. Using a McCarthyite...

‘A lot of Jews are scared’ in this Nordic community of 15,000, as lines blur between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism On a chilly fall day, passersby on a central street in Sweden’s third largest city, Malmö, were greeted with chants in Arabic urging the killing of Jews. “Death to the Jews,’ and ‘More stabbings,’ the protesters screamed,” recalls Jehoshua Kaufman, head of communications for Malmö’s Jewish community. The protesters at the October pro-Palestinian rally were referring to the near-daily stabbings of Jews by Arab assailants over the past couple of months in Israel. Swedish politicians, including two parliament members,...

Muslims are the new Jews. You can find this offensive claim repeated everywhere in the media. The Jews, a small ethnic minority of millions that was stateless for thousands of years, are a terrible analogy for a global Muslim population of 1.6 billion and around 50 countries that do not comprise a single ethnicity or race. Comparing the two makes as much sense as comparing the Finns to all of Asia. The only thing the Muslims and the Jews have ever had in common is that the former conquered, persecuted and enslaved the latter. Any religious similarities are the product...

CNN host Ashleigh Banfield shockingly compares the "Jewish Terror" problem to Radical Islam, as if we are talking apples and apples—as if there is any such thing as Jewish terror in the U.S. "I'm telling you that there have been that many terrorist attacks by Jews and no one's suggesting that all Jews should be wiped out of this country for visiting. It's the same thing." No Ashleigh, it's not the same thing at all! First, there is no Jewish Terror problem in the U.S. She refers to the group, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) and then compares this tiny...

The ranks of our professions are filled with high achieving Jewish men and women. Doctors, lawyers, accountants and teachers have Jewish Americans among their ranks, in numbers far exceeding their percentage share of the population. Nevertheless, the one glaring blind spot America’s Jews have is their love for liberalism even though it consistently works against them. This brings them to the Democrat Party. Given their great successes, in everything they do, many Jews have lots of disposable income to give to Democrats. This gives them a great deal of can leverage over what the Democrat Party does and says. The...

Despite the liberal narrative to the contrary, Jews, not Muslims, were the greatest victims of what the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program designated as religiously targeted hate crimes in America in 2014. [...] ... "Of the 1,140 victims of anti-religious hate crimes: 56.8 percent [56.8%] were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders' anti-Jewish bias." That amounts to approximately 647.52 instances where Jewish individuals, businesses or institutions were targeted. A mere "16.1 percent [16.1%] were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias," amounting to approximately 183.54 instances where Muslim individuals, businesses or institutions were targeted. In the U.S., Jews were targeted an...

So here's my question: If I inadvertently convert a Jew do I have to go to confession? Like if a Jew comes up and says "Hey I was wondering about this Jesus" should I say "I can't talk to you about Him." But isn't that anti-Semitic? I'm confused. [from] The Guardian: Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight antisemitism, the Vatican has said, in a major new document that draws the church further away from the strained relations of the past. Christianity and Judaism are intertwined and God never annulled his covenant with...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went on CNN’s “New Day” and accused Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump of dividing the country in a way that only helps one group — ISIS. Host Alisyn Camerota asked de Blasio what his “ongoing beef” with Trump is, and the mayor replied that he doesn’t care what Trump says about him, “what I’m concerned about [is] he goes before a Republican Jewish group and uses age-old, horrible stereotypes of Jewish people — out loud!” He added that “these are the kinds of stereotypes that have undercut the Jewish community for centuries,” before...

Speaking at a meeting discussing religious persecution held by the Open Doors organization in Brussels on December 2, European Parliament President Martin Schulz said that "Christians are not safe" on the European continent. During his talk, Schulz said that the persecution of Christians is "undervalued" and does not receive enough attention and, consequentially, it "hasn't been properly addressed." Schulz continued, 'It should shake us up that on our continent, Christians are not safe."

FEAR: Jihadis are targeting Christians in Sweden -- like they did in Iraq The terror group's logo was daubed on the wall of a restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chilling messages such as "convert or die" and "the caliphate is here" were also found covering the outside of Markus Samuelsson's bakery. "I felt a sudden chill down my spine. It's terribly painful, we feel threatened," Samuelsson said. The Arabic letter for "N" -- which has been used to identify Christians and drive them out of their homes by ISIS fighters -- was also painted on the restaurant. Gothenburg is a hotbed...

Donald Trump, speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), repeatedly said that Jews won't vote for him because, since he isn't accepting donations, they will not be able to control him with their money. “You are not going to support me even though you know I am the best thing that could happen for Israel. I know why you are not going to support me. You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,” Trump told a full auditorium of Jewish donors and Republican Jewish supporters. “You want to control your own politicians.” This plays into...

We told you the other day that concerned citizens have stepped forward in Redlands, CA to question their local elected government about any plans they might have heard about to resettle refugees in Redlands.  Of special concern are the Syrian Muslims now expected to arrive in large numbers in the coming months.This is new…. CAIR is the Council on American Islamic Relations and is active (and makes news) in demanding rights for Muslims in America.  However, it is only recently that they have become publicly involved in the Refugee Admissions Program of the UN/US State Department as we told you about...

Manhattan: "F*** you Jews. I'll kill you; I'm a Muslim." This isn't one of those "serious" Islamophobic incidents. December 2, 2015 Daniel Greenfield This isn't one of those "serious" Islamophobic incidents. Like the time a Muslim woman had trouble getting her Diet Coke on a plane. Or Ahmed and his magic clock. No, it's just a Muslim man screaming death threats at a Jewish man. And assaulting him. It happens in Europe all the time and no one except the Jews thinks twice about it. Because everyone knows the real problem is Islamophobia. The manager of a Jewish bookstore...

While certain Republican presidential candidates have drawn the ire of reporters and evoked comparisons to the Holocaust for daring to discuss a national registry for Muslims, approximately one out of four Democrats support forcing Jews and Christians to register with the government. A recent YouGov poll asked 1,000 individuals if they would support a national registry requiring members of various groups to provide the government with their home addresses. The poll found 27 percent of self-identified Democrats either “strongly support” (18 percent) or “somewhat support“ (9 percent) a national registry for Jews. Democratic support for a national registry for Jews...

These past weeks have been rife with the shameful opportunistic exploitation of the Holocaust by the media in support of Syrian Muslim migration to the United States. Editorials, cartoons and infographs clamor that a violently anti-Semitic group is somehow just like the Jews fleeing anti-Semitism. But the picture appears very different in Europe where Jewish life is under siege by Muslim migrants. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the latest Paris Muslim terror attacks, had snuck in to the country with the so-called Syrian refugees. His targets had included Jewish areas. The previous Muslim terror attack on Charlie Hebdo had also...

A U.S. soldier has been honored for saving around 200 Jewish prisoners of war from being killed by the Nazis. Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds led a revolt against Nazi instructions to identify Jews under his command after he was taken prisoner in the dying days of the Second World War. Edmonds was one of around 1,000 soldiers taken to the Stalag IXA camp Ziegenhain, Germany, after the Battle of the Bulge.