Scripture Reading for February 16, 2019
Torah: Exodus 27:20-30:!0, “Tetzaveh” (You shall command …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 43:10-27 New Testament: Hebrews 10:13-16 Gospel: Matthew 23, “Oyi Lachem” (Woe to you … )
Quote of the Week
“Christ has no hands but our hands.” Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila
Truth Report: “What is the name of our God?”
Think on this: “You will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of Yahweh.’” (Matthew 23:39) Pray like this: Father, raise up witnesses who, under the power of the holy Spirit, will share Matthew 23:39 with a growing remnant of Jews, in Jesus name, AMEN!
In first, prime minister vows to deduct PA’s terrorist payments
By Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed for the first time to enact the “terrorist salaries law” – and even outlined a timetable for its implementation. The legislation allows the government to deduct the amount the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists and their families from the taxes Israel collects on…
The Progressive Assault on Israel
By Bret Stephens, NY Times— It happened again last month in Detroit. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators seized the stage of the National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force’s marquee conference, “Creating Change” and demanded a boycott of Israel. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” they chanted — the tediously malign, thinly veiled call to end Israel as…
Scripture Reading for February 9, 2019
Torah: Exodus 25:1-27:19 “Terumah”, (Contribution … ) Haftorah: I Kings 5:12- 6:13 New Testament: II Corinthians 9:1-15 Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37 “Gedarecha” (Your Oaths … )
Suicidal Jews
By Joan Swirsky— When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak. But how to explain group suicide? Wikipedia lists numerous cases, starting in 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases: In 1943, in the final phase of the Warsaw…
Trump’s New AntiSemitism Envoy Makes Inaugural Trip Abroad
By Michael Wilner, Jpost— The Trump administration’s newly-appointed special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism will take his first official trip to Slovakia and Belgium this week. On visits to Slovakia and Belgium, Elan Carr will attend conferences on combating antisemitism in the OSCE region and in the European Union in Bratislava and Brussels, respectively,…