Lecture: An Eveningwith Dr. Alfred Moldovan in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday Monday, January 16 7:00 pm Panel Discussion & Tour: Social Justice and Judaism Wednesday, January 25 6:00 pm
BeyondChristmas and Hannukah – Who Will Protect the Faithful? By Rabbi Abraham Cooper Published December 30,2011 | FoxNews.com
This year’soverlap of Christmas and Chanukah brought startlingly different, but ultimately connected, developments overseas. In Nigeria, word of five suicide bombs byan extremist Muslim sect murdering and maiming Christians at prayer, and wiping out whole families, cast a pall on many of the faithful. Meanwhile,archaeologists working in Ir David—the ancient neighborhood adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock, announced a discoveryvalidating the historicity of a heritage central to Jews but also important to Christians.
Bearing two Aramaic words meaning “pure for G-d,” a rare, coin-sized clay seal was found not far from the site of the Beit Hamikdash – Holy Temple whereJudaism’s holiest rituals were practiced until it was destroyed by the Romans two thousand years ago.
