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Scripture reading for April 28, 2012

Torah: Leviticus 19:1–20:27,  “K’doshim”  (Holy Ones…) Haftorah: Ezekiel 20:2–20, 22:1–19 New Testament: I Peter 1:13–16 Gospel: Matthew 24:36 — 44, “Aval et hayom” (But of that Day..)

Obama has new 'atrocities czar'

BY AARON KLEIN, WND— President Obama’s National Security Adviser Samantha Power will head the new White House Atrocities Prevention Board, which is tasked with formulating a response to war crimes, crimes against humanity and mass atrocities. Power helped to found a global military doctrine called Responsibility to Protect that was also devised by several controversial…

Anti-Israel Bias in the Media, Yet Again

BY RABBI ECKSTEIN, IFCJ— Last Sunday, 60 Minutes, the CBS weekly news program, aired a piece lamenting what it called an “exodus” of Christians from the Holy Land. At first glance, this sounds like a story that needs to be told. After all, Coptic Christians and churches in Egypt have been attacked by radical Islamist…

Israel celebrates 64th Independence Day

BY JPOST– An annual torch-lighting ceremony was being held at Israel’s capital on Wednesday, marking the end of Remembrance Day. The end of the ceremony will touch off Independence Day celebrations across the country.   The official theme of this year’s Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl was “Water – The Source of Life.” Participants,…

Video: PM Netanyahu's message for Israel's 64th Independence Day

Best Buy and Hamas

BY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7— On April 19, Marc J. Fink at Islamist Watch broke the story that the retail electronics superstore Best Buy was a “Platinum Sponsor” for a fundraising banquet for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR grew out of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an organization that…

Throughout history, Jews have overcome all enemies

BY JPOST— Following two-minute siren honoring those who have fallen in defense of Israel, Netanyahu addresses bereaved families and dignitaries at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem where wreathes are laid for the fallen. Jews have overcome all their enemies throughout history, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said during the state ceremony for fallen soldiers at Mount Herzl…

West Bank Jewish communities in existence for two decades now legal

BY EDMUND SANDERS, LA TIMES— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his Cabinet has decided to retroactively legalize three West Bank outposts that previous governments had conceded were built without permission, marking the first step toward what critics fear will become Israel’s first official new settlements since 1990. Government officials said it was…

Germany shows true colors on Iran

BY MICHAEL RUBIN, COMMENTARY— It’s all well and good for the Obama administration to brag about how its diplomatic approach has brought European states onboard with sanctions on Iran, but as the White House grants waivers for countries to give them more time to disentangle themselves from their Iran investments, German companies are showing they…

Video: Biblical Israel

“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 3:12 “I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful.” Jeremiah 31:4

Video: Israel, defying the odds

Israel is the 100th smallest country, and has about 1/1000th of the world’s population. One of the smallest countries on earth, with 1/1000th of the world’s population. Only 62 years old, 7 million people strong (less than Virginia), and smaller in size than New Jersey, surrounded by enemies, under constant threat and possessing almost no…

Bob Simon & CBS throw the Jews to the lions

GREEN-LINED, JPost — Did Bob Simon do a hatchet job on Israel in his “60 Minutes” slot, entitled “Christians in the Holy Land”? Of course he did. Should he have been surprised – and even put out -that Israel’s US Ambassador Michael Oren presumed that he would do a ‘hatchet job’ on a story on…

Armenian genocide and international relations

By HAROUT HARRY SEMERDJIAN, JPost— While the modern-day Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923, eight years after its Ottoman predecessors embarked on a massive and systematic undertaking to rid the empire of its Armenian population, the country today often finds itself in diplomatic spats with various Western nations over its history. Outside the periphery…