Scripture Reading for March 31, 2018
Torah: Exodus 12:21-51, “Pesach” (Passover) Haftorah: Joshua 5:2 – 6:1 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:7- 8 Gospel: Matthew 26:17 – 30 “Pesach” (Passover)
Torah: Exodus 12:21-51, “Pesach” (Passover) Haftorah: Joshua 5:2 – 6:1 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:7- 8 Gospel: Matthew 26:17 – 30 “Pesach” (Passover)
So far, we have been reading straight through the Torah from Genesis to Leviticus. But for the next two weeks, the normal Torah portion reading cycle breaks and focuses strictly on Passover readings. This will happen again for Shavuot in the spring and the high holidays in the Fall. If you didn’t already know, Passover…
By Rabbi Benjamin Blech, Aish.com— Scholars have long wondered why Jews who number less than one quarter of one percent of the world – as Milton Himmelfarb memorably put it, “The total population of the Jewish people is less than a statistical error in the annual birth rate of the Chinese people” – have had…
By Michael Wilner, JPost— The PLO excoriated Congress on Friday for passing the Taylor Force Act, a law that threatens to freeze State Department funds to the Palestinian Authority unless it ends its longstanding practice of compensating terrorists and the families of terrorists convicted in Israeli courts. The PLO envoy to Washington, Husam Zomlot, dismissed…
By Dr. Denis MacEoin, Breaking Israel News— It is sad but possibly to be expected that many Palestinian Christians – who are constantly under threat but have not been killed or expelled – identify closely with the cause of their Muslim fellows as they engage in often violent “resistance” to Israel and the limited Israeli…
Think on this: “Blessed is He that comes in the name of Yahweh.” (Psalm 118:26) Pray like this: Gracious Father, fast forward the time when the Jewish leadership will acknowledge that Jesus is Yahweh.
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi in charge King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, revealed to Breaking Israel News a 600-year-old Jewish source stating that the Third Temple will be prepared by descendants of Edom as a “reparation” for destroying the Second Temple. Additional hints from esoteric sources indicate…
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, Times of Israel— Hamas has bolstered its relations with Iran and Hezbollah and is consulting with Russia and China as part of an effort to thwart US President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East, Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip said Thursday. “Hamas is working to forge…
By Israel Today— Washington’s patience for the Palestinian Authority leadership is nearly spent. Ever since President Donald Trump came to the White House, US-Palestinian relations have been tense, to say the least. Trump’s overt affinity for Israel, and his unwillingness to tolerate the outrageous claims and demands of Palestinian leaders is, according to most Israelis,…