BY ISRAEL TODAY— The Jewish online media scene is abuzz with a story published by Israel’s Ynet news portal concerning a group of 1,000 American Christians who want to join the Israeli army and build a new settlement in Samaria. According to the article, the group has signed a document stating its intentions, and its…
BY THE ISRAEL PROJECT— Passover begins this year on the evening of April 18 and lasts eight days outside of Israel, and seven days in Israel. Easter falls on April 24 in both Western and Orthodox Christianity, with Good Friday occurring two days earlier. The week encompassing those days, which also includes Palm Sunday –…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Peace AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld the AKP, Erdogan and his colleagues as proof that political Islam…
BY JPOST— US House Speaker John Boehner will invite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of the US Congress during a visit to Washington next month, Boehner’s office announced on Thursday. Boehner will extend the formal invitation once Congress approves a resolution providing for the joint session, Boehner’s office said in a…
BY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS, AISH— Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is known as the “holiday of freedom,” commemorating the Jewish Exodus from Egypt following 210 years of slavery. Passover is regarded as the “birth” of the Jewish nation, and its lessons of struggle and identity continue to form the basis of Jewish consciousness 3,300 years after…