Scripture reading for January 10, 2015
Torah: Exodus 1:1 – 6:1, “Shemot” (Names … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22- 23 New Testament: Acts 7:17 – 35 Gospel: John 5:41 – 47, “Ain ani loke’ach” (I do not receive … )
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Massive immigration expected from France
BY SAM SOKOL, HERB KEINON, JPOST— Some 50,000 French Jews asked the Jewish Agency for information about immigrating to Israel in 2014, and the Jewish Agency is holding two information seminars a day in France, whereas a year ago it held only one a month, Natan Sharansky told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Interviewed in…
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A weapon Israel refuses to use
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Almost before the last blast cooled from Israel’s 50-day “Operation Protective Edge” in Gaza this past summer, the Palestinians posted on social media pictures of their colorfully dressed children waving bright signs with the Temple Mount in the background. What was the symbolic message? We Won! Did the Palestinians win?…
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Israel agrees: Time to call Abbas’s bluff
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN, COMMENTARY— For the past 20 years, whenever some Americans have raised the question of whether U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority should be cut off, opponents have always trumped such calls by invoking a single point: the Israelis disagree. Even as the PA flouted its commitments under the Oslo Accords and…
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Truth Report: The Missing Piece to the End-Time Puzzle
Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob–has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
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The lessons of Fatah today
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— On December 31, the Palestinians provided yet another compelling example of why peace in the Middle East remains so stubbornly elusive. Even as much of the world was preparing to celebrate the onset of 2015, Palestinian chairman Mahmoud Abbas presided over a ceremony in Ramallah with a decidedly less laudable goal:…
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Israel will ask Congress to stop US aid to Palestinians
By TIMES OF ISRAEL— Israel is poised to ask Congress to stop funding the Palestinian Authority, a day after the Israeli government froze NIS 500 million ($127 million) in Palestinian tax revenues collected on Ramallah’s behalf, in response to the Palestinian Authority filing a request to join the International Criminal Court earlier this week. An…
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ISIS terror cell busted in Hebron
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Israeli security forces arrested three men who are part of an ISIS affiliated terror cell in Hebron. The cell members were arrested in November 2014 by the Shin Bet and have been charged with launching an unsuccessful terror attack against IDF soldiers and conspiring to kidnap and kill Israeli…
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Video: The ISIS threat only grows
The Israeli Defense Forces have created a new department dedicated to intelligence information on the terrorist organization Islamic State. The IDF first began following the spread of ISIS in April 2014, which they learned about primarily through social networking. However, Channel 2 News recently discovered that the Directorate of Military Intelligence (known in Hebrew as…
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Hebrew for the Goyim
Hebrew for the Goyim is one of the Jerusalem Connections most popular, and completely original, series of articles. Researched by Dr. Pat Mercer Hutchens, Hebrew for the Goyim combines her intimate knowledge of Hebrew with the study of art theory. Dr. Hutchens has found a gold mine which not only revolutionized her personal study of…
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Spot Report: Should Israel be tried in the ICC?
Think on this: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good will most assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart…
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Jesus the Palestinian?
By ARIEL COHEN, JPOST— Just as he does every December, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, along with other PA officials, made the Christmastime claim that Jesus Christ was a Palestinian, rather than a Judean. “We celebrate the birth of Jesus, a Palestinian messenger of love, justice and peace, which has guided millions from the moment…
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In stinging defeat, UN rejects Palestinian bid for statehood
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— The UN Security Council rejected on Tuesday the Palestinian draft resolution calling for the full Israeli withdrawal from East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria by the end of 2017. The resolution, which was submitted on Monday by Jordan on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, called for peace negotiations to center…
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America: Israel Among Top Most “Unacceptable” Countries
By DAVID LAZARUS, ISRAEL TODAY— The US State Department in 2014 condemned Israel as one of the most “unacceptable” countries in the world, just behind North Korea. According to an article published last week by Foreign Policy, over the past year the Obama Administration State Department cited Israel for “unacceptable behavior” more times than Pakistan,…
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Faith under fire: Evangelical Christians “God’s frauds”
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Evangelical Christians are under attack in a newly released piece by Newsweek which calls those of the faith “God’s frauds.” In its pre-Christmas issue, the magazine launched a vitriolic war on the Bible in an article by Kurt Eichenwald, titled “The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin.” Eichenwald’s attempts…
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Scripture Reading for January 3, 2015
Torah: Genesis 47:28 – 50:26, “Vayechi” (and he lived …) Haftorah: I Kins 2:1 – 12 New Testament: I Peter 1:3 – 9 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Lo choshev” (Do not think …)
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The ethnic cleansing of Jesus
By RICHARD MATHER, ARUTZ 7— In recent decades, the quest to rescue Jesus’ Jewish identity has yielded much fruit. Geza Vermes, Robert Eisenman, E.P Sanders, James Tabor, R. T. Herford, George Foot Moor and Hyam Maccoby are among those who have highlighted Jesus’ Jewish identity and origins. Combined with the shared interest in the Dead…
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