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Comment: Prayer – Our Strongest Weapon

Regular prayer is one of the single most important things we can do for our children

Report: Final burial place of Jesus revealed after hundreds of years

Hidden by marble for centuries, the stone slab believed to have held Jesus's remains has finally been exposed.

By JPOST.COM STAFF,BENJAMIN GLATT
The German officer who saved 13 Jewish 'spies' from the Nazis

Seeing the Nazi treatment of the Jews played a key part in Hans von Dohnanyi’s growing opposition to Hitler.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Surveying Jerusalem

Sir Charles Wilson’s cartographic work in 1864 served as the basis for all future research of the Holy City.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Tzova: A history of mighty warriors

Palmah soldiers settled Jerusalem-area village, just as their biblical forefather did.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
The banker who used Nazis to help save Jews

Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim used bureaucratic and legal channels to make a difference in WWII.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
The Christian German who saved Jews speaking Yiddish

Industrialist Alfred Rossner stood out for the kindness he showed to those under his command.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
The Church has contributed to antisemitism, Archbishop of Canterbury says

"The fact that antisemitism has infected the body of the Church is something of which we as Christians must be deeply repentant."

By JPOST.COM STAFF
The Pope receives Jewish world leaders ahead of Rosh Hashana

“We Jews have all been immigrants. We understand the situation the immigrants find themselves in," Jewish leader says to pope.

By DANIEL ALTMAN
After WWI, Christian Zionists sought a political expression in the world

"The Americans were watching the [British] Mandate begin, and Christian Zionists in America were seeking a political expression in the world."

By BENJAMIN GLATT
IFCJ provides more than NIS 6m. in aid for Rosh Hashana

‘The scope of poverty and social inequality is intolerable,’ founder and president of the IFCJ Rabbi Yechiel Ecksteinsays.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Pope Francis prays for Shimon Peres to have a full recovery after stroke

The two last met in June when the former president visited the pontiff at the Vatican.

By JPOST.COM STAFF,JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
IFCJ to bring black church, gospel singer to Israel

22 leaders of Bahamas-based fellowship to ‘gain new understanding’ of shared history with Jews.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
The Holy Sepulchre’s long history

Jerusalem holy site went through massive changes since 335 consecration

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Responding to Jezreel: Settlers in Israel’s 1st communal farming village a cornerstone of Zionism

On September 11, 1921, Zionist pioneers founded the moshav Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Raising Arrows: Lead by Example

We must equip our own selves with God’s truth so we can pass it along to our children

By SUZANNE STAMBOULIEH
Nurturing Christian Zionism in Colonial America

Puritan tradition helped form the foundation of the movement supporting the Jews’ return to Israel.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
The Catholic, French count who saved a Jewish family from the Nazis

In his castle in rural France, Count Henri de Menthon discreetly and humbly saved Jewish children in during World War II.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Pope Francis proclaims Mother Teresa a saint

Thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square applauded as the tiny nun known as the "saint of the gutters" in her lifetime was officially elevated to join the Church's more than 10,000 saints.

By REUTERS
Mel Gibson confirms new film project on Jesus’ resurrection

Australian-American actor and filmmaker, whose career tanked after anti-Semitic rant and other scandals, confirms that he's making a follow-up to his blockbuster 'The Passion of the Christ.'

By JTA
Mideast Christian woman on ISIS: God’s plan is ‘working perfectly’

Refugee tells churchgoers not to pray for the persecution to end.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Ratifying the Jewish state

World War I Treaties form legal basis for land Israel won in 1967 war.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Special envoy to the UN calls for immediate halt of aid money to Gaza

"No church or humanitarian organization should send a single cent to Gaza as long as it is run by a band of murderous terrorist bandits."

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Naddaf to French envoy: Stop protecting BDS activists

The spiritual leader said it was inappropriate that official French representatives would help people who are breaking the law.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
They were all his children

Holocaust hero Janusz Korczak broke down religious barriers and stood up for orphans.

By BENJAMIN GLATT
Summer camps bring hope to FSU Jews

IFCJ-sponsored program gives ‘Garden of Eden’ experience to impoverished, refugees.

By CARMIT SAPIR VITZ
Pope Francis: It's wrong to identify Islam with violence

Pontiff makes remarks while responding to question about the July 26 killing of an 85-year-old Roman Catholic priest by knife-wielding attackers in a French church.

By REUTERS
Pope's trip to Poland overshadowed by killing of French priest

Francis is expected to visit Auschwitz during his first visit to Poland.

By REUTERS
Past bloodshed and fighting put aside to restore Christianity's holiest sites

Monks of the different denominations that share the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher put aside friction to allow restoration at two of Christianity’s holiest sites.

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Israel’s blessing to the world

The Jewish nation is tiny yet its contribution to humanity is astounding; its footprints of blessing, innovation and aid etched into the areas of mankind’s greatest need.

By ILSE POSSELT
Remembering the 'Exodus'

Passengers knew they had a 'moral certainty' to the right of return to Israel

By BENJAMIN GLATT

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ISRAELI COMPOSER and video artist Ophir Kutiel (Kutiman) with Samantha Montgomery (Princess Shaw).

Two Israeli documentaries nominated for Cinema Eye Honor

“Talented but isolated, New Orleans care worker Samantha spends her spare time uploading acapella videos of her original songs to YouTube, to a smattering of viewers."

New-Tech

The winning team from Ayanot Youth Village

Middle school, high school students take home prizes for innovations in food loss prevention

As consumers around the world today continue to “buy with [their] eyes,” the students were tasked with proposing ways of minimizing food loss and thereby help curb wasteful behavior.