By Israel Today— There is an ongoing debate among Messianic Jews in Israel as to whether or not the rabbis and their rulings should have any authority over the lives of Jews who believe in Jesus. A well-known local Jewish believer from an influential Israeli ministry rejects the idea that the rabbis still have authority…
By JNS— The Palestinian aspiration to a have a capital in Jerusalem is “not a right,” and “international consensus is not international law” when it comes to creating a Palestinian state, said U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt on Tuesday. “It is true that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority continue to assert that east…
By Associated Press and Israel Hayom— Jordan’s king is standing by a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ahead of a meeting in Amman with White House’s Middle East adviser Jared Kushner. King Abdullah II met on Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and restated his position that the creation of a Palestinian state…
by Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked the US House of Representatives for passing on Tuesday a bill rejecting boycotts of Israel. House Resolution 246, which “opposes the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) targeting Israel, including efforts to target United States companies that are engaged in commercial activities…
BY Orit Arfa, JNS-— Elan Carr, a Jew of Iraqi descent, was appointed Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, a senior diplomatic post that had been vacant for two years until he assumed it in February. Carr is a well-known pro-Israel figure in California, having served as the Los Angeles deputy district attorney before…
By Rabbi Aryeh Spero, American Thinker— Most of the Jewish community has feverishly and piously supported last week’s Democrat-sponsored Resolution condemning President Trump’s remarks against Ilhan Omar. Omar, of course, is a notorious, unrepentant anti-Semite and daily demonizer of Israel. But she has become, for many Jews, a heroine, a civil rights star, a noble…
“On our part, we must do everything to convince the world around us, and within which we are destined to live forever, that we have a sincere desire for peace and stability, that we have no intention of expansion and conquest.”—Moshe Sharett, Second Prime Minister of Israel
“Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father, except through me.’” (John 14:6)
By Omri Nahmias, JPost— US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace team of Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, Brian Hook and Avi Berkowitz will visit Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE in the first week of August, in an effort to build on last month’s economic conference in Bahrain, a senior administration official…