Scripture Reading for January 17, 2015
Torah: Exodus 6:2 – 9:35, “Va’era” (and I appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 – 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 – 33 Gospel: John 4:19 – 26, “Ani ro’ah” (I see …)
Torah: Exodus 6:2 – 9:35, “Va’era” (and I appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 – 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 – 33 Gospel: John 4:19 – 26, “Ani ro’ah” (I see …)
fBy YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, RUTH BENDER and JASON CHOW, WSJ— (Donate Today to help French Jews make Aliyah!) Every Friday, Johanna Bettach, a pregnant mother of two, stocks up on weekend supplies at the Hyper Cacher supermarket. Last week, just before she was getting ready to shop, an Islamist militant gunned down four Jewish customers at…
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— Even before last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the French prime minister was concerned about the continued viability of Jewish life in France. In an interview with The Atlantic prior to the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket massacres, Manuel Valls made a grim prediction: “If 100,000 Jews leave, France will…
By MATTHEW MCCABE, GND NEWS— Since its creation in 1947, there has been no greater friend of Israel on the international stage than the United States of America. When the Jewish state was founded, it was supplied with arms, weapons, and military supplies for the fledgling country. Throughout the 20th century, America stood beside its…
Numbers 6: 22-27 22 The Lord said to Moses, 23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: 24 “‘“The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn his face…
By VICTOR SHARPE— There is an old saying that, “promises, like pie crusts, are meant to be broken.” This may be somewhat cynical but when it refers to the false promises and outright lies made to Israel and the world by the Muslim Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, it is utterly apt. Never in the…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— For the past few days, the world’s attention has been focused on Paris, where a band of Islamic terrorists went on a rampage, attacking the offices of a satirical magazine and a kosher market and brutally snuffing out the lives of 17 innocent people. Millions of people took to the streets…
By RON JAGER— “Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from…
“Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from which the world…