CASPARI CENTER MEDIA REVIEW, DECEMBER 1999 Notice to our Subscribers: Please be aware that in our preparation of the media review we are dependent on our supplier. We receive the press clippings once a week and have no control over how current the clippings are when they reach our desk. It is not […]
CC Media Review 10/99 This month a total of 112 articles from the Israeli Hebrew and English press dealing with the subjects that this review covers were received. Of those articles, 35 dealt in some way with the dispute in Nazareth over the construction of a mosque on property adjacent to the Basilica of […]
CC Media Review Millennium issues continue to feature heavily in the press. Both the secular and the religious press seem equally concerned with the issue. Demonstrations against Non-Jews (19/8/99, M’Yom L’Yom) This Jerusalem weekly carries an announcement concerning the regular demonstrations against the immigration of non-Jews to Israel. The demonstrations will be […]
CC MEDIA REVIEW These past two months have seen much press devoted to the coming millennium. Many articles have related to the expected upsurge in tourism and the preparations, or lack of them, for the increased number of tourists and pilgrims. A number of the articles, in both the secular and religious press, have […]
CC MEDIA REVIEW These past two months have seen much press devoted to the coming millennium. Many articles have related to the expected upsurge in tourism and the preparations, or lack of them, for the increased number of tourists and pilgrims. A number of the articles, in both the secular and religious press, have […]
CC Media Review June 99 Orthodox Fear Satellite Television (Zman HaBira, 19/5/99) Heads of a number of Yeshivot and the leadership of Yad L’Achim have expressed grave concern following the decision by the minister of communications to authorize the use of private satellite dishes. They fear that the ‘Christian message’ will be […]
CC MEDIA REVIEW 5/99 RECONCILIATION WALK (Jerusalem Post, Yediot Achronot, 03/05/99) The papers report the beginning arrival of hundreds of Christian pilgrims who are following in the path of the Crusades. Approximately 2,000 pilgrims from 27 nations have taken part in the walk that began in Cologne, the starting point of the […]
FIREBOMBS… (Ma’ariv 8/3/99) The day before yesterday unidentified assailants threw three Molotov cocktails into the house of a family living in Migdal on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Police think that this act was motivated by the fact that the family belongs to the cult of the Messianic Jews. Michael and Tirzah […]
CASPARI CENTER MEDIA REVIEW FEBRUARY 1999 The Jerusalem Post, Jan.18; Ha’Aretz, Feb.2 1999 ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS A recent wave of threats and attacks against Christian organizations is being investigated by Jerusalem police. On January 5th stones were thrown at St. Andrew’s Church, breaking several stained glass windows. Workers at the church were not […]