From the moonscapes at the Dead Sea to the lush farmland of the coastal plain, from the black Bedouin tents on the edge of the Negev to the forested foothills of the Shephelah, we will find it hard to take in today the dramatic changes at every turn in the road. Making our way over […]
There is, as can be imagined, much to interest a Bible student in the bustling, modern city of Jerusalem. We tour the sobering Yad Vashem, the heart-rending Holocaust Memorial, complete with its Avenue of Righteous Gentiles, those who helped the Jews, often at the cost of their own lives. We see the Shrine of the […]
We notice the bullet-pocked walls above the Zion Gate as we enter the confines of the Old City. They are a grim reminder that Yerushalayim, the City of Peace, has hardly lived up to its name. These bullet scars were left in 1948, but war is nothing new to this little piece of real estate. […]
Any tour travels at the rate of the least interested person. If someone comes along “for a holiday,” and complains about the food or accommodations, is the last one on the bus every day, gripes about not enough shopping time, etc., the whole tour suffers. A visit to Israel ought to be seen as a […]
Is Middle East peace an oxymoron?* It certainly seems so. Jerusalem (meaning, the city of peace) has heard the march of earth’s armies through her streets perhaps more than any other. As Charles Gulston writes in his classic Jerusalem: the Tragedy and the Triumph, “It has been said that if blood were indelible, Old Jerusalem […]
I was born, the son of Jewish parents, in the city of Frankfurt on Main, in southwest Germany. My father, a successful insurance representative, was a loyal subject of the ruling house of the Hohenzollern and felt that he was a good German. My mother was an accomplished pianist. I was brought up in an […]
Jean Guilliaume de la Flechere (1729-1785) was raised in Nyon, Switzerland, on the picturesque shores of Lake Leman. As a young man he visited Geneva, the Jura and Alps Mountains, the famous Castle of Chillon, and Lausanne. Fletcher took the highest honors at the University of Geneva and then went to Lentzburg to study German, […]
In seeking to answer the supposed proofs of evolution, one is always in danger of refuting arguments which evolutionists themselves have already abandoned on the field of battle. In fact, the history of evolutionary “evidence” is as littered with corpses as that of some cults who keep rewriting the “truth” as they feel necessary. Having […]
When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? (Ps. 8:3-4). The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handywork. (Ps. 19:1). He […]