by Lela Gilbert | Mar 31, 2017 | American Foreign Policy, Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State
During recent years, dramatic political changes have shaken the Middle East. Some have described these events metaphorically as “shifting desert sands.” They have also been defined as dramatic realignments of political seismic plates. Some of the more terrifying...
by Lela Gilbert | Mar 22, 2017 | Christians and Minority Rights, Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jews and the Jewish State
When I first set foot in Jerusalem in August 2006 – arriving in the country in the midst of the second Lebanon War – one of the earliest discoveries I made was that truth is sometimes hard to identify in the not-always-holy Holy Land. I also found out that truth isn’t...
by Lela Gilbert | Mar 3, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Perspectives
From the lips of a little child – an 8-year-old girl from El Arish, Egypt – comes a heartbreaking message. Her words speak volumes about the violent attacks on Christians that are taking place today in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. “I am very sad,” she explained in words...
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