"In
Defense of Israel and of Liberty and Judeo-Christian Values in America"
Jerusalem Day Celebration 2013 Victory
Assembly of God in Sharon, MA hosted a wonderful day of celebration for
the reunification of Jerusalem in1967 during the Six Day War.The keynote speakers were Dr. Pat Robertson, Chairman CBN/700 Club and Consul General for Israel, Shai Bazak.
The rock pictured above that is now adorned with the verse "No weapon formed against you shall prosper" Isaiah 54:17,had been used to break a window at the church in a hate crime attack against the church for supporting Israel.
Cathy Lanyard, Dr. Pat Robertson, Rev. Joe Green, Rabbi Jonathan Hausman
Shofars open the event Luis Muniz with 'Shofire" Rev. Fumio Taku, President CJUI Dr. Pat Robertson, Rev. Joe Green, Israel Consul General Shai Bazak, Rev. Fumio Taku Rev. Dick Ingram and Geri Ingram welcome Israel Consul General Shai Bazak to the podium. Joy filled celebration in
song and dance.
Photo credits: Elaine Taku
A Resounding Success
On Sunday, October 28, an
audience of nearly 500 came together at Temple Emeth in Chestnut
Hill, MA to honor the recipients of the Genesis Awards. The Awards are
given to individuals for courageous leadership and enduring love for
Israel. Receiving the awards were: Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing Editor
of the Jerusalem Post; Rabbi Alan Turetz of Temple
Emeth in Chestnut Hill, MA; David and Christine Funnell,
CJUI Board Members/Activists; and Linda McGrath, activist for
Israel with NH4Israel.
The Annual Boston
Yom Yerushalayim
Rally & Parade May 20. 2012
An large enthusiastic crowd came together in solidarity to celebrate United Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. Music,
distinguished speakers and a march through the streets of Brookline
gave testimony to the love people have for Israel and her remarkable
city, Jerusalem.
Please click (here) for a photo album of the days events.
- Intrepid Warriors-
On March 3rd and
4th, a shameful conference
visioning a destructive one-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian
conlict was
hosted at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Jews and
Christians came together to stand in defense of Israel and against
those whose goal is to delegitimatize the Jewish state and seek
her demise through lies and deception.
Key speakers at the event are well known for their utter disdain
for and history of attacking Israel.
CJUI provided
informational handouts and engaged in dialogue with attendees to help
expose and protest the true nature of the conference.
"Not on Our
Watch"
The rallying cry of Pro-Israel supporters in NYC
On
September 21, members and friends of CJUI and NH4ISRAEL-VISION
travelled to NYC to stand with several thousand pro-Israel supporters
in protest against the anti-Israel Durban III conference being held at
the UN the following day.
Friends and members of
CJUI and NH4ISRAEL-VISION
continued with a very visible and enthusiastic display of
support for Israel on 2nd Ave. in NY.
Standing
with Israel
On
May 15, 2011 approx. 75-100 people attended the CJUI
sponsored rally to proclaim and stand firmly in support of Israel,
especially knowing that others were gathering to call for Israel's
destruction.
Those who participated enthusiastically marched through the Boston
Common,
engaging bystanders in conversation, handing out informational material
and
corporately singing Israeli themed songs led by James and Gayle O'Hare,
board
members of CJUI and founders of Israel My Delight Ministries.
On
May 2, 2011 Christians and Jews gathered together in Peabody MA for a
memorial observance of Yom HaShoah. During a special shared Seder
the participants were reminded of the deliverance and the trials of the
Jews throughout their incredible history from their deliverance out of
Egypt to the restoration of Israel in 1948.
Joyce
Kaufman Speaks: A Proud Voice
for Israel
Picture courtesy of
solomonia.com
A
group of pro-Israel activists in Boston provide an energetic counter-
demonstration to a group advocating the boycott and divestment of Israel.
The
sign says:
"The Palestinian Authority says that
any Arab who sells land to a Jew should be put to death. Now that is
Apartheid!
Mark
Steyn, shown with Rabbi Jonathan Hausman and Rev. Fumio Taku, provided
a forceful message to a large audience at Ahavath Torah Congregation on
the topic, "Relighting
the Lamps of
Liberty: Standing Up For Freedom in a Darkening World".
CJUI members Defeating
the Boycott
of Ahava products
in Boston
CJUI 2010 GENESIS AWARDS
For Love of Israel
The annual
Genesis Awards are given to individuals for
courageous
leadership and enduring love for Israel.
An enthusiastic
crowd gathered to stand in solidarity with Israel, her right to protect
herself against external threats and to prosper as the fully recognized
national state of the Jewish people.
May Long, CJUI Founder and President
Emeritus with two of the Genesis
Award recipients, Rabbi Jonathan Hausman and Frank Gaffney.
A
Passion for Israel
Boston Rally for a United Jerusalem
May/23/2010
A crowd of 540
enthusiastic activists descended on Harvard Street in Brookline to
declare their support for the one united Jerusalem. Jewish and
Christian leaders took to the podium and encouraged the participants by
proclaiming the right of Israel to maintain Jerusalem as her eternal
undivided capital. The event concluded with a march through the
neighborhood.
A
resounding shout in
support of a
United Jerusalem
Charles Jacobs
sounding the alarm. It is time to wake up!
Picture from Atlas Shrugs
April
25th
Rally for Israel in NYC
A passionate crowd of two thousand participants braved the rain to
gather in NYC on April 25th to demonstrate love and support for
Israel. Several speakers expressed their grave concerns regarding
recent
decisions by the US administration towards Israel. A contingent
of enthusiastic supporters from CJUI made the trip from Boston.
There was a sizable turnout on Monday
2/1/2010 of Christians
and Jews United for Israel and Americans for Peace and Tolerance
protesting outside the Palestianian Cultural Center in Allston
MA. The center was hosting George Galloway at a
fundraising event for his Hamas affiliated organization.
Read the follow-up article by Dexter Van Zile <Here>
CJUI
members participate at a counter protest to an anti-Israel
demonstration in front of the Israeli Consulate in Boston.
We Are On Guard
An
anniversary
rallying cry in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 12/30/2009
Please
click <Here> to see the event last year that we
must never
forget.
On Guard Rally
Rousing
speeches by Radio hostess Joyce Kaufman, Col. Allen West (Candidate for
Congress),
Tom Trento, Director of the Florida Security Council, Joe Kaufman,
President of
Young Zionists, Bob Kunst, President of Shalom International, Charles
Jacobs, Founder
of the David Project and Citizens for Peace and Justice, Pastor O’Neal
Dozier and Tully Wirtz (whose teenage son was killed in
Israel by a suicide
bomber).
On Guard Rally
It
was an amazing show of support
and
determination to keep Israel, America and freedom protected
from the evil of
Radical Islam and Sharia Law. We are on Guard
was the theme.
Four organizations, among them, Christians and Jews United for Israel,
worked
together to make the event happen.
The
sea of America and Israeli flags
being waved by 200 people on a beautiful, peaceful, hopeful Florida day
will
long be remembered. There was almost no opposition from the
anti–Semitic
community and dozens of friendly, supportive Fort
Lauderdale police
there to protect us.
It
almost felt like, “All’s
right with the world.”
CJUI members
distributing
information at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
in Watertown MA. The church was hosting a fundraiser for
"Gaza
Freedom March", sponsored by organizations with a history of
ties to terrorism.
When
Iran President MahmoudAhmadinejad
was
invited to dinner by the American Friends Service Committee in New
York. CJUI
protested outside the AFSC office
in Cambridge.
CJUI
was instrumental in organizing the
opposition of our community to the vitriol and accusations leveled
against
Israel at an anti-Israel conference held at the Old South Church in
Copley Square.
CJUI.....Educates
Activates Confronts
Ways to provide help to Israel as Israel prepares for emergency needs.
American doctors pledge to
“help Israel in times of national emergency”.
Rambam Hospital Press Release Wednesday, 07 November 2012 12:06 News from Jerusalem
On November 6th,
Election Day in the USA, a delegation of 20 North American doctors came
to Rambam Health Care Campus and pledged their readiness to be
"drafted" to help Israel in times of national emergency
The
physicians have promised that in an Israeli national crisis, they will
come here to help––for example, by taking the place of surgeons and
other hospital doctors who have been called to the battlefront.
The physicians
were given a survey of Rambam’s disaster management network, and also
voted with their feet by touring the Emergency Room and the Sammy Ofer
Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. "I’ve spent
several years trying to learn best practices in emergency department
disaster preparedness,” said Dr. Peter Sananman of Penn Presbyterian
Medical Center. “This was a great opportunity to learn best-in-class
systems and processes from those who’ve learned from experience."
The
delegation was sent to Rambam by the American Physicians Fellowship for
Medicine in Israel<http://www.apfmed.org/> (APF, est. 1950). The
organization’s flagship program gives fellowships to Israeli doctors
for advanced clinical training in the USA and Canada. The APF also
annually sends members to Israel for an Emergency and Disaster
Management Course offered in conjunction with the Ministry of Health
and the IDF Medical Corps.
The APF is the
only North American body designated by the State of Israel to maintain
an Emergency Medical Volunteer (EMV) Registry. Most recently, Registry
members took part in a nationwide Israeli drill testing the health care
system's preparedness for a massive earthquake. “Their response to the
simulated call-up was phenomenal," says APF Israel Director Amir
Blumenfeld, MD. "Sixty-eight physicians immediately volunteered to be
in Israel within forty-eight hours."
No end in sight for Gush Katif expellees
By JOSH HASTEN
12/02/2013
Picture by Limor Edrey
It's been far too long without a remedy, and still there is no end in sight. Sitting
in her tiny caravan and looking up at the water stains and cracks in
the ceiling from the winter rain, Gush Katif expellee and current Nitzan
resident Rachel Saperstein has had enough.
Referring to her community as
a "refugee camp" Saperstein tells me with obvious frustration in her
voice during a recent interview that "it's time to leave."
The
72-year-old mother and grandmother, a New York native, along with her
husband Moshe - who lost an arm while serving in the IDF during the Yom
Kippur War, and was then severely wounded again in a terror attack near
their Neve Dekalim home in 2002 - are among the over 60 percent of
former Gush Katif residents who, seven-and-a-halfyears after the
expulsion, are still not living in permanent homes.
This normally bubbly, always cheerful, laughing and optimistic Gush Katif pioneer is not smiling anymore.
"I'm
angry, I'm depressed, I'm frustrated, I want to get going and build my
house, but I can't do it. I keep hearing from them [the Tenufa
Authority, formerly known as the Sela Authority, which is responsible
for assisting Gush Katif families with resettlement] - 'next month, next
month,' but nothing is moving."
According
to Saperstein, she and her husband have already acquired a parcel of
land in the Lachish area, home to many other former Gush Katif families,
have architectural plans and have picked a builder.
The only thing holding them back is the lack of a permit for their new home.
"We're not the only ones," she says. "Many of our neighbors are also still waiting for permits." [continue....]
● Israel
is one of the few
places in the
Middle East where Arab women may vote. In
Israel, Arabs have equal voting rights as
Jews.
● Israeli Arabs hold various Knesset seats and
government posts, including current deputy mayor of Tel Aviv and
Supreme Court
justice.
● By law, Israeli government may
not prevent Arab citizens from living wherever they choose nor allocate
land
based on religion or ethnicity.
●Israeli
law prohibits discrimination in employment of all citizens regardless
of
religion or ethnicity.
●For
the first time in Mideast history, there is an independent judiciary
willing to
listen to grievances of Arabs – that judiciary is called the Israeli
Supreme
Court.
●Israel
has given Palestinians the authority to self-govern virtually all civil
affairs
for the Arabs in the PA territories.
●Israel drilled new wells for Arabs in the PA
near Jenin, Nablus, and
Tulkarm, and more than 60 towns in the territories were given new water
supply
systems for their use.
●Israeli hospitals extend humanitarian
treatment to every person in need,
regardless of religion, residency, or race.
________________________
Col.
Richard Kemp testifying at the UN: "The IDF did
more to safeguard
the rights
of civilians in a combat zone than any
other army in the
history of warfare."
SUPPORT PRODUCTS FROM ISRAEL
AND THE MERCHANTS WHO SELL THEM.
In response to rising global anti-Semitism and threats to Israel's
security, we declare our support of Israel's right to exist as the
historical national homeland for Jews, with Jerusalem as her undivided
capital. We further support Israel's right to retain secure and
defensible borders for the protection of her citizens against foreign
enemies and terror insurgents.
We recognize Israel as the most democratic nation in the Middle East, a
nation that guarantees "complete equality of social and political
rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion, race or sex"
and pledges to "safeguard the Holy Places of all religion." (Quoted
from the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence). Sharing with us
these precious democratic and Judeo-Christian values, Israel has been
and must remain America's closest ally in the Middle East.
For the last 3,000 years, despite foreign occupiers and attackers,
Israel has been the declared homeland of one people: the Jews. The
Babylonians in the sixth century BCE and the Romans in 70 CE destroyed
the Temple and scattered the Jewish people. Subsequent empires have
appropriated the land. Yet, none of them, including the Arab Muslim
occupiers, have ever called Israel their homeland, or Jerusalem their
national capital. Finally, in 1948, the Jews reclaimed their nation,
with Jerusalem as its capital. But from 1948 to 1967, Jordan closed off
the east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Israel, stopping any Jews
from visiting their holy sites. In the 1967 Six Day War, Israel
re-captured all of Jerusalem and brought her undivided capital under a
sovereign Jewish rule. And thus it shall remain as Israel's eternal
capital.
The Bible specifically mentions the name "Jerusalem" nearly 800 times,
linking the city with the faith and history of the Jewish people. In
contrast, the birth of Islam 1,400 years ago took place outside the
land of Israel. The name of Jerusalem does not appear even once in
Islam's holy book, the Qur'an.
Despite over a century of Arab rejectionism and wars large and small
that have needlessly taken thousands of Jewish and Arab lives, a secure
Israel must continue to be the center of our hopes and prayers.
"[The] heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that
if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that
word would be 'Jerusalem.'"
Teddy Kollek
In view of the above, on May 23, 2010, at the Boston March for
Jerusalem, we declared and affirmed our support of Israel and her
undivided capital, Jerusalem.
CJUI,
a non-profit organization, was
established in 2006 to provide informed, active responses to
the
anti-Semitic, anti-Israel actions and rhetoric that are
increasingly
blatant in public discourse and on college campuses .
