By Noah Beck, Israel Today— Palestinian and other Arab leaders threatened violence in response to President Trump’s pledge to move the U.S. embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. While Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also promised such a move as candidates, each backed off. The terrorist who killed four Israelis in Jerusalem Jan. 8 by…
DetailsBy Yasser Okbi— Donald Trump has responded to the Jordanian king’s request that the United States refrain from moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Arab media reported on Saturday. The Palestinian daily Al-Quds reported that the Trump administration transferred a message to the Palestinian Authority that the embassy would not…
DetailsUnder the Skies of Jerusalem Under the Skies of Jerusalem is the last of the new ZION WALTZ series of large oil canvasses that Michael Rogatchi has completed recently. The exhibition of the Rogatchi’s 30 art works has been invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of re-unification of Jerusalem as the official part of the…
DetailsBy Earl Cox, Israel Always— With anti-Semitic incidents on the rise in America and Europe, it is imperative that Israel knows who her true friends are. It’s sad and disturbing that anti-Semitism in the West originated with the early church fathers. How could this be? Jews and Christians share a common heritage: both are people…
DetailsBy Yair Rosenberg, Washington Post— For a phenomenon often dubbed “the world’s oldest hatred,” anti-Semitism is not well understood. From top Iranian officials who blame the Talmud for the international drug trade to British political activists who claim that the Mossad is stealing their shoes, anti-Jewish bigotry can be bewildering and bizarre. But given the…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 13:17 – 17:16, “Beshalach” (When he sent away … ) Haftorah: Judges 4:4 – 5:31 New Testament: I Corinthians 10:1 – 5 Gospel: John 6:15 – 71, “Ani lechem ha’chiyeem” (I am the Bread of Life … )
DetailsBy Mark Langfan, Arutz 7— In 732 A.C.E., the Umayyad Islamic Terror Caliphate in occupied Spain, or what was then al-Andulus, invaded the Duchy of Aquitane or what is now south-western France, and ransacked the French city Bordeaux. Seeing the grave threat of the ravaging Islamic forces to Christianity and his Frankish Kingdom, Charles Martel…
DetailsBy ACLforIsrael— The US Congress approved the Jerusalem Embassy Act in 1995 declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel and calling for the US Embassy to be moved there. As a political compromise, a provision was included that allowed the President of the United States to delay moving the Embassy due to national security…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— In a move one prominent pastor believes will be the first step towards building the Third Temple, Jews and Christians are coming together on a project to give President Donald Trump major support for moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. The initiative began last month, when Rabbi Yehudah…
DetailsBy Debka— Syria stands on the threshold of dramatic changes that will directly impact on the strategic and military situation along the Syrian borders with Israel and Jordan, DEBKAfile reports exclusively. They derive from a deal struck this week by US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to establish US, Russian and Turkish…
DetailsBy Shlomo Slonim, JPost— UN Security Council resolution 2334 of December 23, 2016 is designed to redivide Jerusalem and to stamp Israeli authority, currently exercised throughout the city, as illegal. In effect, it would put the Jewish Quarter, as well as the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, under Muslim authority, and make all Jewish…
DetailsBY MUDAR ZAHRAN, JPost— The concept of a Palestinian state in Jordan is not new. In fact, Jordan was created based on the Faisal-Weizmann agreement by which Jews agreed to give away 78 percent of the British Mandate for Palestine to the Hashemites to establish a homeland for the Palestinian Arabs. The Hashemites have never kept…
DetailsBy David Parsons, ICEJ— In the new year of 2017, we will pass several important milestones for Christians who support Israel. For instance, it has been 500 years since the start of the Protestant Reformation in October 1517, when Christians could read the Bible in their common languages once again and rediscovered that God still…
DetailsThink on this: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved…
DetailsBy Charles Jacobs, Jpost— Major Jewish establishment organizations are strenuously lobbying for the resettlement of Syrian refugees on American soil. It’s explained as a natural extension of Jewish values and history – “we, too, were refugees once. We, too, were the ‘other.’” The comparison is, to say the least, abstract. It ignores vast differences between…
DetailsBy JNS— Following a high-profile meeting with David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel, a group of more than 70 evangelical Christian leaders has issued a joint letter to the president expressing their enthusiastic support for Friedman’s candidacy. In the letter, the group expressed confidence that Trump “wisely selected a fellow…
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