By Dexter Van Zile, Breaking Israel News. Last year, Heath Rada, moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA), a liberal Protestant church in the United States, did the right thing and prevailed upon the denomination’s staffers in Louisville, Kentucky to stop selling a hateful and dishonest booklet called “Zionism Unsettled.” The booklet was produced by the…
By Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson, The Jewish Week In late June, when the three innocent Israeli teenagers kidnapped by Hamas had not yet been found murdered and the Jewish world still only feared the worst, the Presbyterian Church’s General Assembly voted to “selectively divest” from three companies it claimed “furthered the Israeli occupation in…
By Susan Michael, Charisma News New Christians struggling to study their Bible are often taught to read the Scriptures as though they were written personally to them, even reciting the scriptures using one’s own name in place of the verse’s subject. While it is important to apply Scripture to one’s own life, it is equally…
By Roberta P. Seid and Roz Rothstein JNS.org – Much has been written about the deplorable anti-Israel divestment vote at the recently held 221st General Assembly (GA) of Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). I (Roberta P. Seid) witnessed the proceedings and was struck by an aspect not covered in the reporting on the GA: the corrosive…
By Viola Larson The Presbyterian Layman in their article, “Report asserts antisemitism references on IPMN’s Facebook page,” written by Nathan Key, noted that “The NGO Monitor issued a 69-page report entitled ‘The Role of Antisemitism in the Presbyterian Church (USA’s) Decision to Support Divestment.’” In Key’s report and the original article the Israel/Palestine Mission Network…
Presbyterian News Service Effective immediately, the publication Zionism Unsettled, will no longer be sold on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) website. Last week in Detroit, the 221st General Assembly passed a resolution declaring that the booklet Zionism Unsettled “does not represent the views of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).” The Israel-Palestine Mission Network, which produced the booklet,…
By SNAPSHOTS It is hard not to feel sorry for Heath Rada, the newly elected moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He just got himself elected to one of the most important posts in a very troubled institution and now he has to defend its actions. Right after the General Assembly of his denomination met…
The Layman One of the nation’s largest organizations for Jewish human rights is pushing for Presbyterians gathering at the PCUSA’s 221st General Assembly to defeat extreme anti-Israel positions taken by the denomination’s leadership, including a report that refers to Israel as racist and illegal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, with more than 400,000 member families in…
By Luis Fleischman and Rabbi Edward Bernstein A very problematic document was published in February by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The document, entitled Zionism Unsettled, includes a number of items that not only show a biased hostility toward the State of Israel but also against Judaism and the Jewish people….
By Lauren Markoe (RNS) In a sign of the precarious state of Presbyterian-Jewish relations, the rabbi who heads the largest branch of Judaism in North America will appeal directly to the Presbyterian Church (USA) to step back from a series of critical resolutions aimed at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Invited to address the General Assembly of the Presbyterian…