By Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post On our way to dinner earlier this week, my wife and I bumped into a group of soldiers. We were about to simply walk by when one of them stopped us to tell us he was a good friend of our son. American, a recent graduate of a leading American university, he’d…
By Haaretz— U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States would impose significant sanctions on Turkey over its detention of American Christian pastor Andrew Brunson and called on Ankara to immediately release him. “The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great…
By Ryan Jones, Israel Today— Israel has come under a lot of flak for recently passing a new Basic Law (the local equivalent of a constitutional law in the absence of a true constitution) that enshrines “Israel as the historic home of the Jewish people,” officially labels an undivided Jerusalem as its capital and declares…
By ICEJ NEWS— US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s visit to the family of Yotam Ovadia, who was stabbed to death last Thursday amidst a terrorist attack on the Jerusalem suburb of Adam, sparked outrage in the Palestinian Authority, which issued a statement accusing Friedman of “provocation” adding that the position of the Trump Administration…
By Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday that the Palestinians were planning to make “fateful and dangerous decisions on important issues in the next two months.” He did not specify the nature of the decisions being considered. However, Abbas said that they would be presented to the PLO Central…
Think on this: “This is what Yahweh Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.” This is what Yahweh says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of Yahweh Almighty will be called the…
This week’s Messianic Lite is our second Torah portion in Deuteronomy. It covers 3:23 to 7:11. According to Bible translator Robert Alter, the book of Deuteronomy is Moses’ “valedictory address.” He recapitulates the narrative of the Exodus, reinforces the points of the law, and repeats previous exhortations. Moses understands the threat facing God’s people as…
Torah: Dueteronomy 3:23 – 7:11, “Vaetchanan” (And I Pleaded …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:1 – 26 New Testament: Romans 8:28 – 34 Gospel: Matthew 2:311 – 39, “Oiveh Lehem” (Woe to you …)
BY TERRANCE J. MINTNER, THE MEDIA LINE— Analysts largely agree that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done more to shape Turkey than any other leader since Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the legendary leader who founded the Turkish republic in 1923. Atatürk, who served as the country’s first president from 1923-1938, worked tirelessly to put Turkey on…