By RAPHAEL POCH, BIN— This past Tuesday, on Israel’s Independence Day, the annual International Youth Bible Contest finals were held in Israel. The victor, Eitan Amos, an 18-year-old Yeshiva high-school student at Or Chaim (Light of Life) in Toronto, Canada, won first place making history by becoming the first Canadian to ever win the contest.…
By Herb Keinon, JPOST— Israel will hold Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas responsible for every rocket fired on it from Gaza if he goes through with his national unity pact with Hamas, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. The prime minister made his comments in Tokyo before the start of a meeting with Japanese…
Romans 9:10-13 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”…
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Egypt’s former army chief and leading presidential candidate, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, said Sunday that, if elected, he would be willing to consider making changes to the peace agreement with Israel. “If we are asked to make amendments to the peace treaty with Israel, we will do it,” Sisi said in…
Torah: Leviticus 26:3 – 27:34, “Bechukotai” (In my statutes… ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19 – 17:14 New Testament: I Corinthians 2:6 – 16 Gospel: Matthew 21:33 – 46, “Shimu” (Listen!… )
“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the ‘eternal life’ that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God.”—J.I. Packer, Knowing God
By JONATHAN TOBIN— President Obama was in Los Angeles this week to hobnob with some of his biggest fans in Hollywood. He gave his usual stump speech blaming the Republicans for all the country’s ills at a private fundraiser where he rubbed elbows with Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg. After that, he attended a gala…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Yom Ha’atzma’ut, Israeli Independence Day, is a joyous holiday. In Israel, every year, from Eilat to Metulla, from Tel Aviv to the Jordan Valley, everyone across every spectrum – secular, religious; rich, poor; left, Right, Ashkenazi, Sephardi – is out celebrating. The reconstitution of the Jewish state, and its growth within…
Think on this: “This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commands and remain faithful to Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12 ) Pray on this: Heavenly Father, in light of the coming wars and rumors of wars, grant us a special anointing of your grace that we might have patient endurance…
By SHOSHANA BRYEN, AMERICAN THINKER— Sometimes it is braggadocio. Sometimes it is the last rhetorical shot before making a political change previously thought impossible. But sometimes, just sometimes, it is truth as the teller sees it. Hamas released a video for Israel’s 66th anniversary, entitled “No Hope,” (a play on Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva, or…