By Jason Greenblatt, CNN— It seems to be a regular feature of the U.S presidential election cycle: Candidates from both parties solemnly pledge to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, only to sidestep the issue upon taking office. Shouldn’t the selection of a capital city rest solely with the people of the country who reside there? Donald…
DetailsBy Victor Sharpe, Israel National News— Sovereignty refers to the defined right of nations, the ‘ownership’ of their territories and national interests. A nation is referred to as ‘sovereign’ in terms of its independent identity and rights. Sovereign rights are exercised within national territories. A nation has the legal right to insist on its sovereign…
DetailsBy YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST— With the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Monday in favor of abortion rights in the ongoing culture war on the issue that will now be re-inflamed, it is worth revisiting the issue in Israel and why there is so little public conflict about it here. First, let’s unpack what…
DetailsBy Tazpit Press Service, Breaking Israel News— The Christian Zionist organization Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN) is responding to recent efforts by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel toward making inroads within the Evangelical Christian community. Last week, the organization screened its film, “Hating Israel: In Search of the Truth Behind…
DetailsBy Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel— Pictures being published from time to time by Hezbollah tell a great deal about its role in the fighting in Syria. In some of the pictures Hezbollah fighters can be seen leaning against Russian tanks, and the truth is that since Russia began its open military activities in Syria,…
DetailsBy MANFRED GERSTENFELD, JPOST— It will remain unclear for quite some time what the main consequences of Brexit will be for Europe, Great Britain and the world at large. The changes will include political, economic and social issues. One example: various parties in a number of European Union member states are enhancing their efforts to establish…
DetailsBy Abraham Cooper, Harold Brackman, JPOST— As a shocked world reacted to England’s unexpected exit from the European Union, Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech to the European Parliament. Abbas, now in the 11th year of his four-year term, accused Israel of becoming a fascist country. Then he updated a vicious medieval anti-Semitic canard by…
DetailsBy YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— In any future war, Israel will be hit with the largest rocket salvos seen in its history – that was the stark warning issued by Brig.-Gen. Zvika Haimovich, commander of air defenses in the Israel Air Force on Monday. Speaking at the Israel Air Missile Defense Conference at Rishon Lezion, which was…
DetailsBy JNS, Breaking Israel News— Presbyterian Church USA passed a series of resolutions at its general assembly in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, while calling on Israel to leave the disputed territories. Among the measures passed by the Presbyterian Church includes the approval of a report, in a 429-129…
DetailsBy JTA, Times of Israel— PARIS — Arab immigration to France and deep-seated anti-Semitism in that country mean French Jews have no future there, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel said. Natan Sharansky made this declaration on Monday in the French capital, where he was attending a Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting,…
DetailsFire From the Lord Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the…
DetailsBy Inna Rogathci, Rogatchi.org— ~ The beauty of history is that it is alive, that it is made, conceived, tailored and carried on by human beings for human beings, and thus precisely it has room for human error resulting in something new, unpredictable, and inexperienced before. In a historical process, sometimes, these errors lead to…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Wednesday afternoon, two of the greatest rabbis of the generation met and discussed how very close the Messiah is, and how Christians and Muslims have an important role to play in that process. Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch,Vice-President of the Rabbinical Court and the Head of the Edah HaChareidis…
DetailsThink on this: “Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation…
Details“Without faith, there’s no enthusiasm, and without enthusiasm there is no transcendence. The soul withers and one’s vision narrows. Scholarship finds itself mired in trivia and the great goal is forgotten.” Menahem Zulay, Scholar of Jewish poetry, 1938
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— No Israeli government official would dare say it, but a weakened EU is not necessarily a bad thing for Israel diplomatically. Economics might be another issue. The specter of the EU falling apart, and what kind of forces that will unleash, is also a separate matter. But on the very narrow…
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