By: Fern Sidman On Thursday evening, May 17th, over 1,000 Christian and Jewish advocates for Israel gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan to celebrate the Jewish State’s re-birth at the 8th annual Jerusalem Banquet of the Eagles’ Wings organization. Founded in 1994 by Dr. Robert Stearns, Eagles’ Wings represents a conglomeration of [...]
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Part 2 and 3 BY: FERN SIDMAN Continuing his tour into the heart of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Mr. Luria guided the AFSI contingent in to Beit Wittenberg, now owned by Ateret Cohanim. Originally purchased by Moshe Wittenberg in the 1880s in a deal brokered by Eliezer Ben Yehuda (the father of [...]
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By: Fern Sidman As the semi-annual Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) Chizuk Mission to Israel drew to a conclusion on May 1st, the tour participants told the media that, “Our beloved brethren living on settlements slated to be dismantled by the Israeli government are not alone. We stand with them and our mission will [...]
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By: Fern Sidman On Friday afternoon, March 30th, over 40 demonstrators representing such organizations as Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) and the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam (HRCARI), gathered at the Israeli Consulate in New York City to express their outrage over the intended “Global March on Jerusalem;” an effort by Islamic states [...]
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By: Fern Sidman Adam Lital On Thursday evening, March 22nd, tension filled the air at the Student Activities Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey as two Israeli reservists addressed an audience of both pro-Israel supporters and ardent Israeli detractors. The evening was called “Stand With Us’ Israeli Soldiers Stories: Real Israelis – [...]
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By: Fern Sidman Wing Commander Col. Michael Homitschek and Chaplin Lt. Col. John Ditter welcome Rebbetzin Jungreis to Scott Air Force Base On Tuesday, February 14th, over 500 members of the United States Air Force sat in rapt attention at the Scott Air Force Base near St. Louis, Missouri as Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, founder and [...]
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By: Fern Sidman PHOTO: Karen Harrington, left with Mrs. Baila Gansburg, director of the South Florida Jewish Academy Chanukah was celebrated in grand style in the Sunshine State, as a veritable panoply of community leaders, an array of top tier Jewish performers and 13,000 people gathered for the 32nd annual South Florida Chanukah Festival. Sponsored [...]
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By: Fern Sidman “European countries are asleep and don’t perceive Iran as a danger. They have adopted a Chamberlin-like attitude and are much more sympathetic to Islamist causes that we’ll ever know,” said Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely at a recent speaking date before the South Florida Jewish community. Addressing an audience of over 100 at [...]
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By: Fern Sidman On Sunday morning, December 11th, over 50 people gathered at the Israeli Consulate in New York to vocally express their revulsion at the recent decision by the Israeli government to demolish the community of Givat Aryeh. Organized by Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI), its executive director Helen Freedman, who just returned [...]
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By: Fern Sidman In a page one article published in their November 26th issue, Phileleftheros, a leading Cyprus daily newspaper, re-published an Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) article originally posted on November 25th on the findings of US topographer and security analyst Mark Langfan. Langfan asserted that Israel is the sole line of defense for [...]
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