by Kim Troup | Aug 1, 2017 | News from the Land
August 1, 2017 By: Sondra Baras Today is the 9th of Av, the day according to the Hebrew calendar that commemorates the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem: Solomon’s Temple and Herod’s Temple (which was a rebuilt version of the earlier Temple of Ezra and...
by Kim Troup | Jun 19, 2017 | Word to the Nations
by Kimberly Troup Shechem – The city of Shechem is first mentioned in Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. This is the first place where Abraham enters the...
by Kim Troup | May 9, 2017 | Reflections from Israel
Introduction: Mazal Tov! Avital Stern Buchnick, my trusted and wonderful assistant, has given birth to an adorable baby girl. While she is on maternity leave, my neighbor and old friend Shira Schwartz will be writing some of our emails. For those of you who have...
by Kim Troup | May 2, 2017 | News from the Land
by Sondra Oster Baras May 2, 2017 As I write this newsletter I am sitting in front of the television, watching the ongoing documentaries about soldiers who fell in defense of their country, about victims of terror who were murdered because they were Jews living in the...
by Kim Troup | Mar 7, 2017 | News from the Land
Hope Despite the Tragedy of Ofra Tuesday, March 7, 2017 I have just returned from a wonderful trip to Australia where I spent 10 days travelling and speaking in three states: New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. It was my seventh trip to Australia in as many...
