Today I attended a talk at Temple Reyim in Newton sponsored by Christians and Jews United for Israel. Jeremy Gimpel is the host of Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem and The Singer & Gimpel Show on Israel National News.

The subject was "Modern Israel: America & the Middle East Crisis through the Prism of the Bible," and this is the video. Apologies for the audio. Though Jeremy is holding a microphone, it wasn't on. I think you'll find it quite listenable, though.

I enjoyed the talk a great deal. Though regulars know I take a basically secular approach to things, I think this viewpoint is extremely interesting and also very important. What is a Jewish State without Torah? Without Jerusalem? Lox, bagels, and self-deprecating jokes aren't enough. Gimpel's relation of scripture to current events was also very intriguing. Take it away: