By Abraham Miller, The Hill— Jeremy Ben-Ami would like people to believe that the Obama administration’s agreement with Iran is nothing short of the hyperbole with which the president is selling it to the nation. Ben-Ami’s J Street organization has been pushing that line to both the American and Jewish public in high profile advertisements…
Torah: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11, “Va’etchanan” (And he pleaded … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:1 – 26 New Testament: Romans 11:18 – 24 Gospel: Matthew 23:17 – 39, “O’ei lechem” (Woe to you … )
By Israel Today— Israel’s Knesset last week renewed its Christian Allies Caucus, something that must be done after each election. The fact that the Knesset continues this trend is evidence that it views relations between Israel and the Christian world with increasing importance. The event, chaired by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, was attended by no…
By Pamela Bland Snow and Emmie Goodenough, JNS.org— Sunni Muslim Iraqi politician Mithal Al-Alusi, who leads the Ummah Party, told the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Rai that Iraq should make peace with Israel. He also called Iran “insane” and said the Muslim world has created the Islamic State terror group by fostering a “mentality of vengeance…
By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post— Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam’s by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, but after their persecution under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government, they know how precarious their existence in…
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren said: “Were Jesus to come today to Bethlehem (or any number of other places He ministered, like the Temple Mount) He’d be labeled a “Jewish settler.”
Former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says today is no time for a Neville Chamberlain.
By Nathan Moskowitz, Breaking Israel News— Mike Huckabee, former Christian Pastor, Governor of Arkansas, TV Host and current Republican Presidential candidate recently referenced the Holocaust by likening the Iran nuclear deal to “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven”. Huckabee’s comments drew an immediate tsunami of unmitigated condemnation from the majority of the…
By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post— As we learn more about the Iran deal — the side agreements, the lifting of the arms and missile embargoes, the loophole-ridden inspections regime — the more apparent it is that only people so enamored of their own work, so gullible to embrace the Iranians’ soothing words and so desperate…
By JNS.org— Sunni Muslim Iraqi politician Mithal Al-Alusi, who leads the Ummah Party, told the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Rai that Iraq should make peace with Israel. He also called Iran “insane” and said the Muslim world has created the Islamic State terror group by fostering a “mentality of vengeance and nullification of the other.” “Yes.…