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Arab Nations Ban Exodus Movie for “Inaccuracies,” “Racism”

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Ridley Scott's recently released Exodus: Gods and Kings has proved to be quite controversial in Arab countries, including Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. While the film makes little attempt to be historically accurate, it does dramatize the story of Moses (played by Christian Bale) leading the Jews out of Egypt, a story that God has commanded the Jewish People to retell every year at Passover.

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Aliyah Hits 10-Year High

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Last year's summer war did not stop 2014 from drawing record immigration numbers in ten years, as 26,500 new Israelis disembarked at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, a 32 percent increase from the year before. While French and Ukrainian Jews led the surge, North America also claimed its highest immigration numbers to Israel in a decade, with 3,700 Jews leaving the United States and Canada in a 7 percent jump from 2013.

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Parasha Vayechi (And He Lived): The Lion and the Scepter of Judah

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In this Parasha, Jacob compelled Joseph to vow to carry his body back to the Land of his Fathers and bury him there. Joseph agreed to his dying father’s request not to leave his body in Egypt. Although Jacob had lived the last 17 years of his life in Egypt, he never forgot the Land God had promised him by Divine Covenant. Ever since God called Abraham out of Ur, the Jewish People have not lost sight of the Promised Land given to them through Isaac and Jacob. Even when the people of Israel were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, they sat by the rivers of Babylon weeping and remembering Zion, vowing to never forget her.

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Terrorist Attack Survivor Provides Refuge for Israeli Arab

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In 2010, Kay Wilson, a Jewish tour guide, was one of two women bound up with shoe laces and attacked with a serrated knife in the forest near Jerusalem by local Arabs. Her friend, Kristine Luken, an American Christian whom the Palestinian terrorist cell mistook for being a Jew, did not survive. This traumatic experience did not stop Wilson, however, from taking into her home 17-year old Nazareth resident Mohammad Zoabi after receiving death threats for his support of Israel during Operation Protective Edge.

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Parasha Vayigash (And He Drew Near): God’s Prophetic Plan and Seasons of Trials

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Parasha Vayigash begins with a plea from Judah, brother of Joseph, on behalf of his younger half-brother, Benjamin. A silver cup was deliberately planted in Benjamin’s bag by Joseph, causing Benjamin to be in danger of having to remain a slave in Egypt. Judah could not bear to return to his father without his youngest brother, Benjamin. He knew that doing so would probably kill his father.

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