By Reuters , Israel Hayom Staff– Turkey ignored new sanctions from the United States to press on with its assault on northern Syria on Tuesday, while the Russia-backed Syrian army entered one of the most hotly contested cities, filling a void created by Donald Trump’s abrupt retreat. A week after reversing US policy and moving…
Zechariah 14:16-19 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels The Jerusalem Connection’s founder and President Emeritus James M. Hutchens is a military chaplain who earned two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart while serving in Vietnam. He joined the army as an enlisted US Army paratrooper ultimately training for the status of an elite High Altitude, Low Open (HALO) parachutist…
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 …)
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…