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Simon Wiesenthal Center researchers have uncovered over two dozen Facebook sites with titles like “Kill a Jew Year” and “Kill a Jew Day” during one week alone. “Some have been posted from the United States, others from the United Kingdom,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center who directs the Jewish Human Rights NGO’s Digital Terrorism and Hate project.
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In recent months, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office joined Twitter and is using the social networking Web site, as well as the Prime Minister’s Office Facebook and Flickr accounts, to keep people updated. The Prime Minister’s Office Web site noted in a press release that they also are uploading Hebrew and English videos to a YouTube channel, including statements from Benjamin Netanyahu.
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When God spoke the words recorded in Genesis 12:3, “…and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” He wasn’t just speaking of the Messiah as many Christians think. The modern state of Israel has been at the forefront of innovation in countless areas of human endeavor, benefiting the world with advances in medicine, science, technology, the environment, security, and more. However, one Jewish contribution that has impacted humanity for centuries is often left off the list: chicken soup!
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Israel sends special teams to a variety of places in the world to help out with medical and emergency issues, and two eye doctors from Rambam Health Care Campus had the opportunity to treat correctible vision problems and blindness in the African nation of the Republic of Cameroon, according to the Rambam Web site.
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Travelers from around the world voted for their favorite sightseeing destinations in a poll sponsored by Trip Advisor, a Web site that provides valuable travel information, and Jerusalem came in seventh place! Their Travelers’ Choice 2010 “Top 10 Culture and Sightseeing Destinations in the World” list their choices in this order: Florence, Washington D.C., Rome, Paris, Siem Reap (Cambodia), New York City, Jerusalem, Venice, Istanbul, and London.
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For the first time, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will award academic credits to students who study its courses via the Internet—enabling students from any country in the world to study a Hebrew University program. The first session of students to recently complete an online Hebrew University course in Biblical Hebrew includes 30 students from Lebanon, Singapore, Peru, Argentina, Holland, Ireland, Denmark, France and Italy.
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There may be as much as 4.2 billion barrels of oil in deep [geological] structures beneath the natural gas structures at the Leviathan prospect, according to a statement by the Israeli partners to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. [For more information on Leviathan, see the Good News article in the August-2010 issue of the Dispatch.]
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“I would like to thank everyone, and especially the Lebanese people who came out to welcome their brothers. They showcased Lebanon's power and we thank them for that. I feel as though I'm at home, in my homeland among my brothers.
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“The Holy Scriptures cannot be used to justify the return of the Jews to Israel and the displacement of the Palestinians, to justify the occupation by Israel of Palestinian land…We Christians cannot speak of the ‘promised land’ as an exclusive right for a privileged Jewish people. This promise was nullified by Christ. There is no longer a chosen people—all men and women of all countries have become the chosen people.”
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“Jerusalem is not just a city. Al-Aqsa [on the Temple Mount] is not just a mosque. Jerusalem is the key to peace, and Jerusalem can ignite a thousand and one wars. Unless the issue of Jerusalem is solved, so that it returns to its owners; unless Jerusalem will be Palestinian, as it was throughout history, the capital of the Palestinian state and the capital of the Palestinian people, the place which is the object of heartfelt longing and which all Muslims aspire to reach; unless Jerusalem is like that way, there is no peace.
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