Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and diplomats.

Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and diplomats.

Sue and Bob Windsor leave the USA to follow what they believe to be God's mission for them during the last few years on planet Earth as we know it. From Jerusalem, they send news-letters home to family and friends describing catastrophic events, prophesied for over three thousand years. -The horror of the catastrophic events happening worldwide and the intrigue of the rise to power of the sinister "Beast" draw the reader into the story. "News from the Holy Land presents a realistic and groundbreaking account, in a fictional sense, of what believers and non-believers can expect as Jesus' return draws near. Sue's mission . . . is a strong component to the story, heightening the urgency of what is transpiring currently" (Manuscript Review, Xulon).

A witty epistolary novel, both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, about a dysfunctional family--led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel--struggling to love and accept each other. As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colorful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an aging Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York--to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness. Their son, David, an earnest and successful playwright, has vowed to reconnect with his father since coming out. Annabelle, their daughter, finds herself unmoored in Paris in the aftermath of a breakup. Harry eschews technology, so his family, spread out around the world, must communicate with him via snail mail. Even as they grapple with challenges, their correspondence sparkles with levity. They snipe at each other, volleying quips across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and Europe, and find joy in unexpected sources. Holy Lands captures the humor and poignancy of an adult family striving to remain connected across time, geography, and radically different perspectives on life.

This book is a novel, my imagining as I struggled to comprehend what it would be like on Earth during the millennial kingdom. Each chapter is based on a scriptural prophesy. If you read News from the Holy Land books, I and II, you will recognize most of the characters who were raptured, martyred, or lived through the rise of the Dark Knight and his reign on earth. Sue and Bob Windsor returned to Earth with the armies of raptured believers to fight for Christ in the Battle of Armageddon. They, along with the survivors will serve the king for a thousand years restoring the earth and repopulating it. Did you ever wonder. . . Does anyone on earth die if they are not in the battle of Armageddon? Or, What is heaven like? Or, Who will bury the dead after Armageddon? Or, If God cursed the earth, when does it end? Or, What happens to the Jews who survive? Or, What happens to the martyrs? I think there are answers to those questions in the Bible. Get your copy of News from the HOLY Land III: The Messiah's Kingdom today to find answers.

From “a marvelous new voice” (Rebecca Makkai), these “extraordinarily imaginative” (Sigrid Nunez), “revelatory” (Nicole Krauss), “superb” (Kiran Desai) stories transcend borders as they render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. WINNER OF THE AJL JEWISH FICTION AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense talent. Warm, poignant, delightfully whimsical, Omer Friedlander’s gorgeously immersive and imaginative stories take you to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, with characters that spring to vivid life. A divorced con artist and his daughter sell empty bottles of “holy air” to credulous tourists; a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers in a bombed-out Beirut radio station; a boy daringly “rooftops” at night, climbing steel cranes in scuffed sneakers even as he reimagines the bravery of a Polish-Jewish dancer during the Holocaust; an Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza. These stories render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. They are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd. Told in prose of astonishing vividness that also demonstrates remarkable control and restraint, they have a universal appeal to the heart.