Author Archives: Martin

Below is a transcript of a speech by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at “The Future of the Jewish Communities in Europe” Conference at The European Parliament on 27th September 2016 in Brussels.   The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. … Continue reading →

Martin M. van Brauman   On October 15, 1965, the Second Vatican Council ratified the Nostra Aetate (In Our Time), the Roman Catholic “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.”[1] The guiding spirit of change for the … Continue reading →

Martin M. van Brauman     And now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob; the One Who fashioned you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called [you] by name; you are Mine. Isaiah … Continue reading →

Martin M. van Brauman   The martyr dies to give us, the Remnant, an atoned future, a new day, wonderful like every morning in which God renews His creation.[1]  Franz Rosenzweig considered Jewish history as the history of the Remnant … Continue reading →

Martin M. van Brauman     In Genesis 3, God called out to Adam, Where are you?, after Adam had bitten into the forbidden fruit and was hiding from God. It is the first question asked in the Bible and … Continue reading →

Martin M. van Brauman    FUGITIVES FROM THE SWORD WILL RETURN . . .  TO THE LAND OF JUDAH, FEW IN NUMBER . . .  JEREMIAH 44:28   I will assemble you from the nations and gather you in from … Continue reading →

Martin M. van Brauman   Woe to the shepherds who lose and scatter My sheep of pasture – the word of the Lord.  Therefore, thus said the Lord, God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who tend My people: You scattered … Continue reading →

 Martin M. van Brauman     A boor cannot know, nor can a fool understand this: When the wicked bloom like grass and all the doers of iniquity blossom, it is to destroy them till eternity.  But You remain exalted … Continue reading →

 Martin M. van Brauman   Political anti-Semitism represents the ideological weapon used by totalitarian movements and pseudo-religious systems.[i]  Norman Cohn in Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion wrote that … Continue reading →