Scripture Reading for October 12, 2019
Torah: Deuteronomy 32:1-52, “Ha’azinu , (Give ear …) Haftorah: II Samuel 22:52 New Testament: Romans 11:1-24 Gospel: Matthew 5:17-20, “Al Tachesvu” (Do not think …)
‘We assume there are weapons stockpiled on the Temple Mount’
By Yoav Limur, Israel Hayom— ‘We assume there are weapons stockpiles on the Temple Mount’ “The Palestinians will never drop the matter of the Temple Mount. It’s a tool that they, and parts of the Arab and Muslim world, use to take on Israel,” former Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman and former head…
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) guide for the perplexed, 2019
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel initiative” More on Sukkot and other Jewish holidays, see Ettinger’s ebook: Jewish Holidays, Guide for the Perplexed. 1. US-Israel special ties are highlighted by Columbus Day (October 14, 2019), which is always celebrated around Sukkot (October 13-20, 2019). According to “Columbus Then and Now” (Miles Davidson,…
Trump’s new actions, inactions on Kurds, Syria, Iran have Israel deeply worried
By David Horovitz, Times of Israel— President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US troops from a crucial area of the Turkey-Syria border, widely seen as an abandonment of America’s Kurdish allies there, has reinforced the resonance of a series of “emergency” warnings issued by Israeli leaders in the days leading up to Wednesday’s solemn Yom Kippur.…
As Turkey launches ground invasion, Shaked calls for Kurdish state
By Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— Yamina party chairwoman Ayelet Shaked on Wednesday reissued a call for Kurdish statehood, urging the West to support the Kurds as Turkey launched a military campaign in northern Syria. “Our national memory requires us to revolt against violence directed against another nation. Such is the Turkish violence directed against…
At least one suspect on the run after shooting rampage near German synagogue kills two people
By Stephanie Halasz and Sheena McKenzie, CNN— Two people have been killed in a shooting rampage near a synagogue in the eastern German town of Halle, according to local police. One woman was killed close to the town’s synagogue around midday local time on Wednesday, before a gunman opened fire at a kebab shop roughly…
The Shofar of Auschwitz
By Dr. Yvette Alt Miller, Aish— Rosh Hashanah, 1944: A group of ragged Jewish prisoners assembled for yet another exhausting work detail. All around, Jews were starved, tortured and murdered. The slightest expression of Jewish faith was strictly forbidden, grounds for execution by Nazi guards. Yet on that Rosh Hashanah, a group of courageous Jews…
IDF chief: If attacked, Israel will respond with force
By Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom— The Israel Defense Forces will not compromise Israel’s security, this according to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi in an address at a memorial ceremony for soldiers who fell in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. “Last summer was full of security incidents, both above and below the surface,…
Israeli Arabs Deserve Better from Their Leaders
By Melanie Phillips— Israel’s electoral stalemate surprised few and dismayed many. One development, however, got a number of people very excited indeed. This was the decision of three of the four parties in the Arabs’ Joint List to endorse as prime minister Benny Gantz, the head of the Blue and White party — only the…