How does Utah compare to the Holy Land? Both have Jordan Rivers, both have dead seas and both have some similar terrain. Both also have a predominant faith. But there are big differences between the two places.
in the 1980s against ultra-Orthodox critics and then taught at the Latter-day Saint school for more than a decade.
On our first Sabbath in Jerusalem, we meet John and Heather Howell in a bomb shelter deep in the BYU Center, which sits atop Mount Scopus, overlooking the Mount of Olives and the Kidron Valley, and across from the Old City. During one powerful lecture about the “deep terror of the Holocaust,” Heather says, the teacher said gravely to the class, “Every one of us would be gone if Hitler’s Final Solution had succeeded — except you, James [pointing to her son].”Before the pandemic, they attended synagogue every Friday night, Heather says. “It was a good way to start our Sabbath. The songs were really beautiful, joyful, very worshipful.”, which includes Palestinian Christians and Muslims, as well as Israeli Jews.
Just below the pipe organ and facing the multistory, crescent-shaped windows, newcomers look out on a breathtaking view of the biblical landscape and the Old City, unlike any other vista in the global church.You can’t talk about religion in Israel free of politics, says, a Palestinian American activist who lives in East Jerusalem. The two are entwined in everyone’s lives.
“This is basically how the religions are being weaponized and politicized,” Abukhdeir says, “against the population.”
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