Category: Israel Ed

Yom Yerushalayim 2015.

Yom Yerushalayim: Jerusalem Day

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-05-23 • ( 3 Comments )

As mortal beings, it’s impossible to foresee the outcome of events where the course of history is altered in a way we never anticipated. Yet, on Yom Yerushalayim—Jerusalem Day—such an outcome is commemorated.

Charles E. McCracken on Haas Promenade with Jerusalem Panorama in the background.

ACTION ALERT: UNESCO—Theater of the Absurd, Act II

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-05-03 • ( 1 Comment )

Prophetic passages in both Testaments of the Bible affirm the centrality of Jerusalem in Israel’s future. Those with an obsession to destroy Israel and rewrite history disavow what every rational person recognizes. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish world.

Detail: IDF officers shield a 4-year-old boy, protecting him with their own bodies during a Hamas rocket attack, during Operation Protective Edge, 15/7/14.

Yom Hazikaron (Israel Memorial Day)

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-04-29 • ( 1 Comment )

“May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob defend you; may He send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion.” PSALM 20:1-2

A group of orphans who are survivors of the Holocaust at the reception camp in Atlit, July14, 1944. (The Atlit detainee camp was a detention camp established by authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine at the end of the 1930s in what is now Israel's northern coast, 20 kilometers (12 mi) south of Haifa. The camp was established to prevent Jewish refugees from entering Palestine. Tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants were interned at the camp, which was surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. Many of the detainees during the 1930s and 1940s were Jewish refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe. In the late 1940s, most were Holocaust survivors. The British authorities, acceding to Arab demands to limit Jewish immigration, refused to allow them to enter the country.)

Always Remember—Never Forget

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-04-23

Set an alarm to pause in a moment of silent solidarity with our Jewish friends, neighbors and co-workers. Then, determine to use Yom HaShoah to counter those who attempt to diminish and co-opt the memory of the Holocaust.

“Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.” Psalm 124:6-7

Our Help Is In the Name of the Lord

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-04-22

“Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” PSALM 124:6-7

Rev. Charles E. McCracken attends the 2017 Ambassadors Against BDS summit.

ACTION ALERT: Ambassadors Against BDS Summit

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-03-31 • ( 1 Comment )

Don’t be a pew warmer. Use every opportunity to counter misinformation about Israel.

Detail of the Knesset Menorah: “Moses Prevails Over the Amalekites,” as in Exodus 17:8-16).

Spirit of Amalek Reincarnated

By Charles E. McCracken on 2017-03-18 • ( 1 Comment )

In a reincarnation of the spirit of Amalek, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime instigated the most aggressive program to annihilate the Jewish people in the history of mankind.