“I want Falwell in my foxhole”
July 23, 2006, Los Angeles Times op-ed by Zev Chafets on his appreciation of evangelical support of Israel even if they are motivated by predictions of Armageddon.
July 23, 2006, Los Angeles Times op-ed by Zev Chafets on his appreciation of evangelical support of Israel even if they are motivated by predictions of Armageddon.
Daniel Sieradski is the founder of Jewschool, a blog that covers everything from politics to religion to art from a Jewish perspective. It has 50,000 readers and contributors from 80 countries. He was named to Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36: The Next Wave of Jewish Innovators.”
Gennady Estraikh is an associate professor of Yiddish studies at New York University. He is a contributor to a Yiddish-language section of The Forward that aims to engage young Jews in learning Yiddish.
May 12, 2013, The Washington Post article about Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) trying to court conservative evangelical voters partially through a strong stance in support of Israel.
May 24, 2013, The New York Times article about famous evangelical conservative Christians who converted from Judaism and the innate friction between the two groups over their support of the State of Israel.
May 2, 2013, The Daily Beast article about the multi-faceted nature of Americans’ support for Israel, namely Jewish groups and right-wing evangelical groups.
May 19, 2011, New York Times article about President Obama announcing his belief that Israel and Palestine should look to the 1967 borders as a starting point for a peace talks. The announcement angered Israel and U.S. supporters of Israel.
Transcript of a speech given by famed evangelist Pat Robertson about why evangelical Christians support Israel.
April 6, 2011, survey results presented by the Pew Research Center showing that nearly two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants (64 percent) say helping to protect Israel should be a very important policy goal for the U.S. in the Middle East, compared with 34 percent of white mainline Protestants and 36 percent of white Catholics.