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Hanukkah 2021 – First Home in the Homeland

Shalom, dear First Home friends! As you know all Israelis are now enjoying Hanukkah. Today (December 1st) we are lighting the fourth candle. For the majority of our olim families it is the first Jewish Holiday in the Holy Land. We heartily share the lights …

Lighting up the World

Up until just a few years ago, children still had to attend school during Hanukkah, which is not the case …

Back to Basics

There is a famous Jewish saying which claims that each verse of the Torah has 70 interpretations . This is …

Weekly Update: Israel and Persia

As the Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah this week – remembering the miraculous deliverance from the Greek oppressors – the regime …

Checkmate

Every few decades a true prodigy emerges in the likes of art, music and science. It is difficult to categorise …

Prayer Calendar December – January — Available

This prayer calendar, which begins with the month of December and after New Year’s continues with the month of January, …

Light in the darkness

In the second century BCE, the Jewish people lived under the influence of two Greek principalities, one in Egypt and …

Coming Home

In India’s Northeastern border there are about 3.7 million people, all with various creeds and religions. Among them, are a …

First Home in the Eshkol area (South of Israel)

“For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and …

Weekly Update: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict – what’s the problem?

The mainstream media, the United Nations and the EU would have us believe that the cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict …

Capturing the Heart

In a world saturated with digital images that enables anyone with even a smart phone to compete in the world …

Weekly Update: A night of terror

This week, eighty three years ago, in an apparently spontaneous outburst of hatred, nazi stormtroopers and civilians damaged or destroyed …

The scoop of blessing

A few weeks ago, the ice cream company Ben and Jerry’s made a racist decision and informed their customers that …

Weekly Update: Israel and the fight against terror

Over the last decades, the world has been increasingly confronted with the reality of well-organized global networks of groups and …

It’s sad that Holocaust denial needs to be criminalized

Thursday 14 October was a special day. I was in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of The Netherlands, for …

The Dog Whisperer of Efrat

Whether we like it or not, Israel has a habit of changing us. It is a place where “the dreams …

Weekly Update: Israel, Iran and the US

It is widely reported that Iran is very close to being able to produce nuclear weapons. Many argue that this …

From the Ends of the Earth: C4I Fiji

In the recent months between July to September, Christians for Israel (C4I) Fiji has been excited to explore opportunities that …

Walking the walk in the ancestral homeland

Israeli tour guides have a reputation for being self-confident, knowledgeable people with unlimited energy who are bent on promoting the …

Weekly Update: Antisemitism: the oldest hatred

For years, critical race theory, identity politics and neo-Marxism have been leading to a surge in condemnation of Israel in …