Scripture Reading for January 24, 2015
Torah: Exodus 10:1 – 13:16, “Bo” (Enter …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13 – 28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20 – 34 Gospel: Luke 22:7 – 32, “Ke’she’hagia hayom” (then came the day …)
The message is clear. Congress backs Israel
By BOAZ BISMUTH, Israel Hayom— Washington — or to be more precise, the White House — is U.S. President Barack Obama’s home court. Congress, however, has become a hostile arena for Obama since the midterm elections in November. The Republican majority in both chambers there holds a different outlook from the president on a whole…
Dear French Jews, living in Israel wouldn’t be all that bad
By DAVID ROSENBERG, HAARETZ– How quickly the wheel turns. Two weeks ago Paris was the scene of two lethal terror attacks that left 17 people dead. This week 13 people were stabbed on a Tel Aviv bus. Meanwhile, perched on Israel’s northern border, Iran and Hezbollah are vowing to retaliate for an Israeli attack on…
Iran, Obama, Boehner and Netanyahu
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Iran has apparently produced an intercontinental ballistic missile whose range far exceeds the distance between Iran and Israel, and between Iran and Europe. On Wednesday night, Channel 2 showed satellite imagery taken by Israel’s Eros-B satellite that was launched last April. The imagery showed new missile-related sites that Iran recently constructed…
“Just say ‘no’ to Islamic terrorism
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Have we in the West lost our way? Do we even know anymore who we are as Americans? Do we still hold ourselves as solid allies of Israel–the only true democracy in the Middle East? Do we not understand that Muslims do not embrace our Western values no matter how…
Spot Report: Jesus is Yahweh to the glory of God
Philippians 2: 9-11 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus is Yahweh, to the glory of God the…
Spot Report: Is your heart and soul in sync with God’s?
Think on this: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them. I will never stop doing good to them. I will inspire them to fear me so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will most assuredly plant them in this land with all my…
A closer look at the Jews of France
By DAVID PARSONS and HOWARD FLOWER— With an estimated 550,000 members, France currently has Europe’s largest Jewish community and ranks third in the world behind Israel and the United States. The perception that most are native, well-off French Jews of Ashkenazi descent is wrong, as much of that community was wiped out or fled during…
The answer to French anti-Semitism
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— January 16 is the nine-year anniversary of the beginning of the Ilan Halimi disaster. On January 16, 2006, Sorour Arbabzadeh, the seductress from the Muslim anti-Jewish kidnapping gang led by Youssouf Fofana, entered the cellphone store where Halimi worked and set the honey trap. Four days later, Halimi met Arbabzadeh for…