- The JerUSAlem Connection
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The JerUSAlem Connection, International (TJCI) is a 501 (c)-(3) non-profit organization whose main objective is to inform, educate and activate Christians and Jews to support Israel and the Jewish people. TJCI accomplishes this goal in large part through the publication of its magazine and weekly online communications. TJCI's analysis of events in Israel comes from a Biblical perspective.
TJCI's magazine can be downloaded from the Web site (www.tjci.org). It is a bimonthly publication with 32 pages of full-color articles and commentary from nationally syndicated columnists. The relevant content speaks to all the issues of the day involving the Middle East, Israel and global terrorism as they relate to biblical issues.
The Jerusalem Connection supports several charity projects in Israel. Over the years they have helped more than 80,000 Jews immigrate to Israel from the former Soviet Union. They now focus their aliya efforts on Sephardic Jews from Latin America. They provide financial assistance to Jerusalem's poor. And TJCI is active in supporting the pro-Life movement in Israel. They annually raise funds for child victims of terror in Shiloh, Israel.
Supported Organizations
- Operation Life for Israel
Operation Life for Israel is helping preserve the sanctity of life in Israel by aiding child terror victims and Israel’s unborn.
TJCI offers Christian support to the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund (SICF), a rehabilitation center dedicated to helping terror-victim children in Shiloh live happy and productive lives in the heartland of Israel by providing their much needed emotional and physical therapy. Unfortunately, many have refused to support SICF because of its location in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), an area some see as being “occupied” rather than as land promised by covenant to the Jewish people.
Through Operation Life for Israel, TJCI also supports pro-life efforts in the Land of Israel. The Jerusalem Connection’s pro-life partner organizations are emerging as the primary pro-life voices in Israel. Their efforts have seen thousands of women every year make informed decisions to keep their babies despite financial and social stress. The organizations provide all the primary needs of these mothers and their children, as well as a vital network of volunteers who provide social and moral support.
- Operation Aliya
Operation Aliya is more than a humanitarian project—-it is a divine calling for the Church to assist in “gathering the exiles of Israel … from the four corners of the Earth.” TJCI has helped more than 80,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union immigrate to Israel and is now focusing its efforts on Sephardic Jews.
The Cyrus Fund is an expanded ministry of Operation Aliya devoted to the return of the B’nai Anusim. The B’nai Anusim are the ancestors of Jews who migrated to the Americas from Spain after being expelled in 1492. Five hundred years after they were converted forcefully to Catholicism, many B’nai Anusim are returning to their Hebraic roots and are being drawn to their spiritual homeland, Israel.
Historians estimate that there are tens of millions of B’nai Anusim in the Americas. The Jerusalem Connection is participating in finding these Sephardic Jews and helping them logistically and financially to make Aliya.
- The Elisha Fund
The Jerusalem Connection has established The Elisha Fund out of necessity, providing food, clothing and basic household goods to Israel’s most needy. Many of these supplies go to new immigrants who are in need of practical support while they learn Hebrew and undergo job training. Help also goes to poor Jerusalem families. Jerusalem is the poorest city in Israel.[citation needed] In 2007, the Jerusalem Municipality report showed 56 percent of the capital’s children and 33 percent of the city’s families were living in poverty.
See also
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- Christian Zionism
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