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  • Day 3: Jesus utters The Withering Curse

    In 1867 celebrated American author Mark Twain, visited the land of Israel (Palestine as it was called). He travelled across the land, writing his observations in his best-selling book Innocents Abroad. He used the words “unpicturesque”, “unsightly”, and “desolate” to describe what he saw. Twain wrote, “Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes…. desolate and unlovely.” Innocents Abroad Of the Jezreel…

  • Day 2: Jesus Selected

    Richard Wurmbrand, Ivan Urgant and Natan Sharansky represent the Jewish spirit of unarmed civil protest voicing objection to powerful and abusive institutions.  As a result of their outspokenness, they became targets of the systems that they criticized. In that regard they followed in the footsteps of their fellow Jew – Jesus of Nazareth. Tortured for his Faith…