Introducing a new series: Messianic Lite
Read up for Next week’s Torah Portion: Vayera, Genesis 18:1 to Genesis 22:24
Spot Report: “Yahweh has Israel’s enemies right where he wants them!”
Think on this: “He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4) Pray like this: Father, enlarge Israel’s remnant and move them to say “Blessed is He who comes in the name of Yahweh!” (Matthew 23:39)
Response to Syrian fire will intensify, Israel warns
By Israel Hayom— Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli communities on Saturday, prompting the IDF to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the Syrian civil war that has repeatedly spilled over its northern border. The fire at the Golan Heights caused no injuries or damage.…
Russia agrees to keep Iran, Hezbollah forces away from Israeli border
By Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post— Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Israel that Moscow has agreed to expand a buffer zone along the Israeli-Syrian border, where Iranian and Hezbollah forces will not be allowed to enter, Arab media reported Wednesday. The statement attributed to an Israeli diplomatic official by London-based Asharq Al-Awsat said that Russia had…
Iran’s very good week
By Caroline Glick, JPost— You have to hand it to the Iranians. They don’t play around. Just hours after President Donald Trump gave his speech outlining the contours of a new US policy toward Iran, senior Iranian officials were on the ground in Iraq and Syria not only humiliating the US, but altering the strategic…
Justice needed for American victims of Palestinian terrorism
By Michael Freund, Jpost— Not surprisingly, the incident came in the wake of weeks of ongoing anti-American incitement in the official Palestinian media. Just five days prior to the bombing, Palestinian television broadcast a sermon delivered in Gaza in which the preacher threatened “destruction for the United States” and noted ominously, “From this place [i.e.…
Putin Cites Torah As “Eternal, Fundamental Values” At Elite Political Conference
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— At the 14th Plenary Session of the elite Valdai Discussion Club, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised the academics and politician gathered at the prestigious conference when he responded to a question about the role of technology in modern conflicts by citing the Torah. The Valdai Discussion Club brings together scholars and politicians…
In pictures: The proud lions of Jerusalem
By Israel 21C— Jerusalem – as any resident or visitor will attest – is home to many cats. And while debate rages over the good and evil of Jerusalem’s ubiquitous strays, another proud member of the feline family is even more visible to those with an attentive eye: the Jerusalem lion. On every street, in…
Why there is no peace in the Middle East
By Philip Carl Salzman, Gatestone— Living as an anthropologist in a herding camp of the Yarahmadzai tribe of nomadic pastoralists in the deserts of Iranian Baluchistan clarified some of the inhibitions to peace in the Middle East. What one sees is strong, kin-based, group loyalty defense and solidarity, and the political opposition of lineages, whether…
Rivlin speaks to first-ever Christian Media Summit
By Greer Fay Cashman, JPost— What do 130 Christian broadcasters from 30 countries on five continents who collectively broadcast to more than a billion homes around the world do when seated in the reception hall while waiting for President Reuven Rivlin to make an appearance? They sing, and the song they sing in Hebrew is…