Category Archives: Human Rights

What is truth (John 18:38)
Posted on 22 December 2025 by Elze Erwteman
Formation of Opinion It’s good to have an opinion; it’s a natural thought process. You formulate and conclude your opinion based on the information you receive. Your mind works with facts, and that’s how you arrive at an opinion about things. Example 1 I remember that among the women of my non-believing family, abortion was...
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Moral inversion: what is taking place in our society?
Posted on 23 June 2025 by Elze Erwteman
Ticking time bomb Iran has been openly announcing for years that it will destroy Israel. It is Iran that is leading the way in denying that a Holocaust ever took place. After making such repeated announcements, Khamenei staged a drama of death eight years ago. On June 26, 2017, a huge digital clock was prominently...
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Human Rights, child marriages and girls’ genital mutilation
Posted on 22 September 2022 by Cisca Mudde
See the reason for posting these kinds of topics at the bottom of this article. Female circumcision According to the World Health Organization: WHO and UNICEF, 3 million girls are still at risk of genital mutilation every year. It occurs in 28 African countries in the Near East and in Asia. In countries such as...
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New ethics for the world: vision from Israel
Posted on 20 July 2020 by Elze Erwteman
Mirror Haviva Pedaya is a professor at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev where she heads the Elyachar Center for Sephardic Studies. Her interview with the Jerusalem Report of June 8, 2020 is interesting because she sheds light on the corona crisis from her knowledge as a scientist. It plays an important role in Israel today....
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The courage of the daughters of Tslofchad
Posted on 20 July 2020 by Cisca Mudde
Exalted position This compelling and, above all, compelling event surrounding the daughters of Tslofchad in Numbers 27: 1-11, has gone down in history as the action of five women who have had the courage to approach the leadership of Israel at the time because of a tacit legacy. The Torah was supplemented by their action,...
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Another dangerous infection with world wide impact
Posted on 13 May 2020 by Elze Erwteman
Global trade and human rights violations Global open trade, which has brought us much prosperity and which would not be a moral reason why it would be wrong, does go wrong when there are treaties that are unjust. The treaties concluded with this international trade then determine how the lines of trade will go. People...
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Acid Crime
Posted on 20 February 2020 by Elze Erwteman
Our role Women are talented in many ways. In order to carry out His work on earth with Him G-d equipped us with specials talents. The opponent has known this for a long time and so he tries everything to humiliate women and to break down their strength. Whether he will be successful is up...
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Esther saves her people
Posted on 01 March 2019 by Elze Erwteman
The Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper describes Esther as a girl and according to his interpretation she should not have taken part in the beauty contest which meant that she could become the Queen of the Persian Empire. He believes that Esther because of this, has violated the seventh commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery. He...
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Selma Engel survivor of Sobibor: never forget her story!
Posted on 31 January 2019 by Elze Erwteman
Born Saartje Wijnberg in 1922, Selma (she changed her name in 1957 when she moved to the United States) grew up with her three brothers in the Dutch town of Zwolle, where her parents Samuel and Alida had built up and owned a successful kosher hotel. Selma later recalled her childhood as idyllic: her family...
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Hiding in the Lord and learning to persevere
Posted on 30 January 2019 by Elze Erwteman
How can we learn to take shelter in the Lord and what is the connection with perseverance? The letter to Hebrews 10:36 states that we need perseverance: “For you need perseverance, to do the will of G’d, to obtain that which is promised.” The Eternal wants us to do His will and thereby we must...
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