Scripture Reading for February 16, 2013
Torah: Exodus 25:–27:19, “Terumah” (Contribution …) Haftorah: I Kings 5:26–6:13 New Testament: II Corinthians 9:1–15 Gospel: Matthew 5:17–20, “Al tachshevu” (Do not think …)
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Video: Underdogma
BY AISH.COM— Eight years ago, “Israel Apartheid Week” began on campuses in America and around the world to show “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle” and to demonize Israel as an “Apartheid” regime. Ten years ago, I began studying this “pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli” phenomenon. It began, like so many movements, on a university campus. The year was 2002,…
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Netanyahu Exercises Israel’s Right to Build Despite Bias Criticism
By EARL COX— Do those who continually attempt to bully and threaten Israel ever rest? Israel is moving forward with plans to build approximately 1500 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank–all the while the European Union is condemning the construction decision as an obstacle to the peace process. Historically, there has been…
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American Jewry: Found wanting
By VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ7— Nahum Goldmann, a leading Zionist, founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, wrote in his autobiography the following: “We must stand as a generation, not only condemned to witness the destruction of a third of our number but guilty of having accepted it without any resistance worthy of…
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Why Israel will rule the new Middle East
By ARTHUR HERMAN, FOXNEWS.COM— If you still think the future of Israel looks bleak, think again. A few months ago it looked like the Jewish state might not survive until 2013. Rockets were raining down from Gaza; revolution was about to install one Islamicist government in Egypt, and another was poised to take over in…
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Hebrew for the Goyim: Deuteronomy 6:4
By PAT MERCER HUTCHENS, A lawyer came to Jesus (Yeshua) and asked him a question – to “test” him. It’s one of those verses in the Bible that makes me think the Good Book really is inspired, like Mama said. The lawyer came and asked a question to test? Well, of course he did. That’s…
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After hating Israel, nothing in common
By Prof. EYAL ZISSER, ISRAEL HAYOM— Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad’s visit to Cairo on Tuesday started off on the wrong foot. The visitor recited his usual hateful and hostile invective against Israel to Egypt’s citizens, but they preferred instead to press Ahmadinejad on Syria, where Iran is supporting its ally President Bashar al-Assad while he…
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US Ambassador: Obama visit not connected to coalition talks
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— US Ambassador Dan Shapiro dismissed speculation on Wednesday that the timing of President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel is somehow aimed at impacting the coalition talks. “Obviously we don’t play a role and have no intention of interfering in Israeli coalition negotiations,” Shapiro told The Jerusalem Post, responding to claims…
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Wish I'd said that
“The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.” —Charles Spurgeon, 1855
Muslim Brotherhood and Protesters Accuse Each Other of Working for the Jews
By DANIEL GREENFIELD, FRONTPAGEMAG— It wouldn’t be politics as usual in the Muslim world if both sides didn’t accuse each other of being tools of the vast international Zionist conspiracy. Because that’s just the way things are in the Golden Age of the Arab Spring. On the Muslim Brotherhood side, the Egyptian Prosecutor General is…
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Can Jewish groups speak out on Hagel?
By JONATHAN TOBIN— One of the interesting subtexts about the debate over the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense has been the relative silence from the organized Jewish world. Though there was widespread shock from most pro-Israel activists, even those who were loyal liberal Democrats, about the president’s decision to choose one…
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About the next government
By CAROLINE GLICK-— It is still difficult to assess how Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will govern in his next government. The public has little interest in begging the Palestinians to return to negotiations. But then the Israeli public has rarely had much interest in pursuing fruitless deals with unreformed Palestinian terrorists. The only reason we…
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Barak: Syria strike proof we mean what we say
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he sees the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as imminent, and that this will be a major blow to Israel’s regional archrival, Iran. This is the second time that Barak has commented on the imminent demise of Assad. He first said this only months…
DetailsScripture Reading for February 9, 2013
Torah: Exodus 21:1–24:18, “Mishpatim” (Judgmensts) Haftorah: II Kings 12:1–17 New Testament: Romans 2:17–29 Gospel: Matthew 5:17–20, “Hizri” (Repent …)
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James, the Ambitious Disciple
By DANIEL MCCABE— “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 Now there have been eight head coaches. Once there was only the one. A legend. My hero. For twenty-nine years Tom Landry coached the Dallas Cowboys.…
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Spot Report: Will all Jews by saved?
Think of this: “I do not want you to be ignorant of the mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved.” Pray on this: Speed the day our Father, when…
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UN: Israel must withdraw from Judea, Samaria
By CHANA YA’AR, ARUTZ7— The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria. The recommendation came in a report issued Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has a history of passing numerous biased resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged ‘crimes’ each year. “Israel must,…
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