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The intersection of faith, culture and politics
Weekend of December 16-18, 2016

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"TALK ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO 'GETS IT' "

I've been reading JWR for nearly 15 years, having started after seeing a profile of Binyamin Jolkovsky in The Wall Street Journal.

The WSJ article appeared in the paper's religion column. As a pastor, I was intrigued. All these years later, I still am.

I live in the South. There are very few Orthodox Jews here.

I once wrote Binyamin and asked him why a publication with the word "Jewish" in its name publishes so many articles on Christians and Christianity. (There have been two articles in the last week alone.)

I've written many letters to publications over the years. Almost always my notes are ignored. Binyamin, however, responded in minutes.

You could hear the compassion in his wise and informed reply.

Christians and their values, he explained to me, are under attack worldwide and this needs attention. While virtually every faith community and minority enjoys special protections in America, for Christians it seems to be open season. Now there are, obviously, differences between Christianity and Judaism. However, our respective faiths' values, he argues, are similar. Christianity is, after all, rooted in Judaism.

Talk about somebody who "gets it".

I find enlightenment in JWR's articles on biblical and moral themes and even pass some out at Bible study. If I were a betting man, I'd wager there are many like me who do.

I'm particularly touched that Binyamin prepares extra issues for his non-Jewish readers when he suspends publication during Jewish holy days.

People who not only profess a love of God but who serve Him and His adherents deserve support.

K.J.,
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All expressions of kindness and gratitude are tax-deductible. They can be made through our secure online site or by making out a check and mailing it to the sponsoring foundation -- marked in the "memo section" for "Internet Education Project" -- at:

Keren Yehoshua V'Yisroel/JWR
127 Columbia Boulevard
Waterbury, CT 06710
Tax ID: 22-3209160

With heartfelt appreciation,
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky,
Editor in Chief

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PONDERABLE

"To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence."

--- Martin Buber

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On this day in . . .

• 1598 , during the Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point --- The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the Korean and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Korean victory

• 1689, Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights

• 1773, during the American Revolution: Boston Tea Party --- Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act

• 1826, Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia

• 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which came to be known as the "Great White Fleet," set sail on a 14-month round-the-world voyage to demonstrate American sea power

• 1941, the U.S. Navy takes control of the largest and most luxurious ocean liner on the seas at that time, France's Normandie, while it is docked at New York City. Shortly thereafter, the conversion for U.S. wartime use began

• 1920, the Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000

• 1937, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again

• 1944, during World War II: Battle of the Bulge --- General Dwight D. Eisenhower's allied forces and Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt's German army engage in the Belgian Ardennes

• 1950, President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War

• 1979, Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States

• 1982, the Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%

• 1991, the UN General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 -- "Zionism is racism" -- after Israel makes revocation of resolution 3379 a condition of its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991

• 2003, President George W. Bush signed a number of measures into law, including legislation meant to stem the flood of junk e-mail known as "spam" and a bill to establish a national museum devoted to black history

• 2010, the House joined the Senate in passing a massive bipartisan tax package preventing a big New Year's Day tax hike for millions of Americans. ALSO: Larry King, joined by a parade of former guests, concluded his CNN talk show after 25 years.

• 2012, President Barack Obama visited Newtown, Conn., the scene of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre; after meeting privately with victims' families, the president told an evening vigil he would use "whatever power" he had to prevent future shootings

• 2015, practitioiners of that "religion of peace" stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, killing at least 148 people, mostly children. ALSO: The first attempt to find a Baltimore police officer criminally responsible for Freddie Gray's death from a broken neck in a police van ended with a hung jury and a mistrial in the case of William Porter.

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