By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week pointed to the overtly hostile rhetoric of Hamas coupled with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ efforts to reconcile with the terror group as the primary reason that true, lasting peace is currently unachievable. Over the weekend, Hamas marked its 25th anniversary with a gala…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— Extremist Islamic organizations like Hamas attack Israeli homes by firing thousands of missiles at civilian targets, hoping that Israel will retaliate and cause civilian Palestinain Arab casualties to be broadcasted all over the world. Hamas as policy uses Palestinian Arab civilians as human shields. Yet Jewish Liberals remain silent. Despite the branding…
DetailsBy JPOST— The first issue of this newspaper, then called The Palestine Post, was published in Jerusalem by its legendary founding editor, Gershon Agron, on December 1, 1932. Agron, who was born in Ukraine but grew up in Philadelphia, served as editor until 1955, when he became mayor of Jerusalem, a position he held until…
DetailsThink 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 they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will most assuredly plant them in the land with all my heart…
DetailsBy NADAV SHRAGAI, ISRAEL HAYOM— It’s a shame. A shame that building up Jerusalem — the city that has protected Jews throughout the generations more than we have protected it — has become a form of punishment. A stick with which to hit others over the head. After all, building in Jerusalem is a privilege…
DetailsBy SUSAN MICHAEL, ICEJ— Christian support for the restoration of the Jews to their ancient homeland has been around for as long as Christians have been able to read the Bible for themselves. For there they read about God’s covenant with Abraham in which He bequeathed to him and his descendants the land of Canaan. …
DetailsThis image is taken from the 1934 Chicago Tribune cartoon ‘Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?’. It focuses on the character of Leon Trotsky, who is laying out a series of policy goals for the United States. The Chicago Tribute suggested in its latest reprint of this cartoon that we take a look at this cartoon…
DetailsLyrics: Eight nights I stay up starin’ at those candles, They tell the story that occurred, Eight nights we’re thankful for that small miracle, our prayers were answered and our voices heard When One night turned to eight, that’s why we celebrate, In the dark of night the candles stand for, Oh the candles stand…
DetailsBy PROF. EPHRAIM INBAR, ARUTZ 7— Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must ignore the Pavlovian response of the international community against building in Jerusalem, particularly in Area E1. The fate of the Jewish State depends largely upon the government’s ability to take immediate action and to populate the area that links Jerusalem to Maaleh Adumim…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Today marks the 25th anniversary of one of American Jewry’s finest moments. December 6, 1987, was a brisk, fairly cold Sunday in Washington, the kind of day best spent curled up on a couch watching an exciting afternoon of football. But instead of staying indoors, more than 250,000 American Jews from…
DetailsWhat is Hanukkah? Hanukkah is the eight day Jewish holiday known as the “festival of lights” or “feast of dedication.” Each year the holiday falls sometime between late November and the end of December. In 2013, Hanukkah will last from November 27th to December 5th. Hanukkah is the celebration of a miracle that happened over…
Details“You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”—Max Lucado, The Christmas Candle
By RYAN JONES–ISRAEL TODAY— Israel on Monday responded to international condemnation over its earlier approval of more Jewish apartments in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria by announcing that an additional 1,600 housing units will now be constructed. In addition to the 3,000 units approved on Sunday, Israel will now add another 1,600 apartments to the northern…
DetailsBy RICHARD CRAVATTS, FRONTPAGEMAG— As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, Northeastern University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), paralleling the moral incoherence of anti-Israel activists demonstrating elsewhere in American and European cities, sponsored…
DetailsBy YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The November 29, 2012 U.N. vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a “nonmember observer state” — in violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords — was an expected derivative of Israel’s policy toward the PA since 1993 — critical concessions, retreats, indecisiveness, submission to pressure and appeasement. What has Israel…
DetailsBy WILLIAM BIGELOW, BREITBART — Finally, those in the West can take their blinders off. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has taken off the veil and articulated what the real war is between Islam and the West: not a war over the land of Israel but the religious war between radical Islam on one side…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 37:1–40:23 “Vayeshev” (and he settled … ) Haftorah: Amos 2:6–3:8 New Testament: Acts 7:9–16 Gospel: Matthew 1:1–6, 16–25 “Sepher ha yuchaseen” (The book of geneology …)
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