the visual
Photos of the Week
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This week’s gallery includes images from the start of Ramadan, protests over the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, and more.
Gaza
Gaza border protests resume as UN calls for inquiry
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(AP) — Palestinians resumed their fiery protests at Gaza’s border with Israel on Friday as a U.N. human rights body criticized Israel for the ‘disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force’ that killed at least 59 Palestinians earlier this week. Israel condemned the resolution by the U.N. Human Rights Council as biased.
Opinion
Tom Wolfe’s message to the Jews
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Tom Wolfe understood what was happening in Gaza. Even if he never mentioned it.
commentary
To my fellow evangelicals: What you’re cheering in Jerusalem is shameful
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(RNS) — It was a shameful thing for evangelical pastors to be celebrating the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem while the Israeli army was killing dozens of Palestinian protesters.
Pope Francis
Pope warns bloodshed in Gaza hurts peace: ‘War begets war’
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(AP) — Pope Francis warned Wednesday that the latest spasm of violence in the Holy Land is only hurting chances for peace, and he called for revived efforts at dialogue and justice.
Opinion
Eyeless in Gaza
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Most of what you are reading about Gaza is simply wrong. What else is new?
community building
Amid conflict, Jews and Muslims in US seek solidarity
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(AP) — As turmoil spreads through the Middle East, American Jews and Muslims have been forming alliances to build trust and seek solidarity in more ambitious ways than in the past, a sharp contrast to the violence engulfing their homelands this week.
Ramadan
Embassy move, Gaza crisis make for somber start to Palestinians’ Ramadan
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JERUSALEM (RNS) — This year, the first night of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, coincides with the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding – what Palestinians call the Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ — and the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
commentary
New US policy toward Jerusalem will advance peace in the region
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(RNS) — The decision to update American policy regarding the holy city was both right and righteous.
commentary
Is Jerusalem embassy part of God’s grand plan? Why some evangelicals love Israel
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(RNS) — Many American evangelicals cheered because they understood the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the ‘once and eternal’ capital of Israel as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Israel
For some, the US Embassy’s move to Jerusalem fulfills divine prophecy
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JERUSALEM (RNS) — For many evangelical Christians and Orthodox Jews, the controversial relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is not only a smart political move, but the fulfillment of divine prophecy.
Government & Politics
Romney: Jeffress wrong man to give Jerusalem embassy prayer
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(AP) — Senate candidate Mitt Romney of Utah says a prominent Baptist minister shouldn’t be giving the prayer that opens the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem because he’s a ‘religious bigot.’
African migrants
Healing through artwork: Crochet by African migrants and trauma victims on display in NYC exhibit
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TEL AVIV, Israel (RNS) — The intention of a new exhibit is to highlight sexual assault and rape as seldom-discussed aspects of the Holocaust and recent genocides in various countries.
Opinion
Yes, Abbas is a Jew-hater
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Believe what Mahmoud Abbas says — as much as you might not want to.
immigration
Ugandan faith leaders grapple with accepting Israel’s African refugees
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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – Some Ugandan faith leaders say their nation must accept African refugees facing deportation from Israel, while others counter that resettlement would place too heavy a burden on already overtaxed refugee resettlement efforts.