Eichmann in Jerusalem

“Zechariah” means “the Lord (Jehovah) remembers.” In the Old Testament this name is used over twenty-nine times. Zechariah was a postexilic prophet during the restoration from Babylon. He was born in Babylon from a priestly family that returned to Jerusalem with some 50,000 other exiles. Like Jeremiah and Ezekiel he was both prophet and priest. Jewish tradition credits him with being one of the Great Synagogue, a body which is thought to have gathered and preserved the sacred writings and…

Religion plays a vital role in Jerusalem and more specifically, in understanding it. Although, people of different religions do live their own lives, there has been recorded tension between them. One example is that they all believe to be the heirs of God’s legacy to Abraham (1). He granted His “everlasting favor” to Abraham and his descendants, and with that, all three religions believe that they are just that. With different people of different faiths, all together in one place, the city is…

Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and began to expand the Church (Wilkinson, 1978, p. 11-12). Rebuilding and increasing the size of the Church allowed the conquering Christians to reestablish their dominance in Jerusalem after the Muslims had built their holy buildings on the Temple Mount. Ousterhout notes that while the location of the Tomb of Christ was immutable, the architecture of the building was not (2003,…

revelation from the Hebrew Bible that Solomon reveals that Jerusalem is seen as the place in which God dwells. In Judaism Jerusalem is the holiest city. Jerusalem has long been in embedded into Jewish tradition and study. There are many stories of Jerusalem in the Tanakh. Such as the story of the Binding of Isaac. Prior to the First Temple built by Solomon Abraham was to sacrifice his son Isaac at Mount Moriah. This is the same place in Jerusalem in which Solomon later built the First Temple.…

allegories and robed statues of the gods plus mythological scenes.” In 168 B.C. he conquered Jerusalem, and inside the Jewish temple, slaughtered a pig on an idol he built to the god, Jupiter. In referencing the Abomination of Desolation in the book of Daniel, Christ linked the Antichrist to Antiochus (Mark 13:14). Antichrist — like Antiochus before him — will also set up an idol in the future temple in Jerusalem and sacrifice to it. The Bible also associates the Antichrist to another person —…

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, (LAMOTH), is a two-fold mission that has publicly received its expatiators free of charge, welcoming the community since 1961 by a group of Survivors who found one another,shared their experiences and contributed their artifacts for public display. Its commemoration and artifacts displays the Jewish culture above all, to commemorate the history of its people and their journey through their suffering and rise to today. The museum focuses on honoring those…

The holocaust was one of the worst genocides taken place in history. Eleven million innocents lives were taken by a mass murder, Adolf Hitler. He deliberately killed millions of people just because they were Jewish. With today’s society, it will be impossible for something like that to reoccur. Today’s massive access to the internet and social media will make it impossible to hide and not take action on what was occurring, we also no longer have a dictatorship like they had back in the day, and…

The sixth commandment in the bible states that “you shall not kill” and Ray Comfort successfully illustrates this point clearly to an abundance of people. Ray Comfort’s video the “180 movie” compares the German Holocaust to America’s Holocaust, also known as abortion. Abortion has killed fifty million babies by women who believe that there is no child in the womb. Ray Comfort wants people to understand that a baby is a baby as soon as it is noticed that the woman is pregnant with the child.…

In the society of today, many are blind to the murder that happens every day. In America, it is legal to have an abortion and many are oblivious to the process and what abortion really means. Abortion is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end pregnancy (Dictionary.com, 2016). A total of one million abortions were performed in the United States in 2011 (Guttmacher.org, 2016). An evangelist, by the name of Ray Comfort, set out on a mission to prove that abortion is…

Adolf Eichmann was one of many who would try to escape justice. (Eichmann Trials) He fled to Argentina and hid until 1960, the year he was captured by Israeli agents.The main man behind the manhunt was Simon Wiesenthal. In 1961, Israel tried Eichmann and found him guilty on his crimes. Even after Eichmann was found guilty, people wondered if he were to receive the death sentence or life imprisonment. If…