Scripture Reading for October 18, 2014
Torah: Genesis 1:1 – 6:8, “Beresheet” (In the beginning…) Haftorah: Isaiah 42:5 – 43:11 New Testament: Colossians 1:15 – 20 Gospel: John 1:1 – 14, “Beresheet” (In the beginning …)
Torah: Genesis 1:1 – 6:8, “Beresheet” (In the beginning…) Haftorah: Isaiah 42:5 – 43:11 New Testament: Colossians 1:15 – 20 Gospel: John 1:1 – 14, “Beresheet” (In the beginning …)
By DAVID RUBIN, INN— The post-Gaza war period has seen some disturbing statements and actions by the United States political leadership that call into serious question its reliability, as the leader of the free world and as a trusted ally of Israel. The American air attacks on the Islamic State (otherwise known as ISIS, ISIL…
By CAROLINE GLICK– It is still unclear what happened on Sunday night at Iran’s illicit nuclear installation at Parchin. According to Iranian sources, there was a large explosion that rocked the area within a 15-km. radius of the facility. Two people were reportedly injured. According to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and Israel, the…
By JONATHAN SACKS, WSJ— This year, Europe’s Jews enter Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, with a degree of apprehension I have not known in my lifetime. Anti-Semitism has returned to Europe within living memory of the Holocaust. Never again has become ever again. In France, worshipers in a synagogue were surrounded…
“It may be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archaeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements of the Bible.”—Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed militant Islamism, ISIS, Iran, and Hamas with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren.
By ISRAEL TODAY— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday hosted his sixth open Bible study at the official Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem since reestablishing the practice two years ago. The event was attended by dozens of leading rabbis and academics, many of them members of Knesset and the current government. One of those participating…
by EARL COX— I’ts puzzling. When Israel builds homes on their own land, they are called “occupiers.” Should Israel divide Jerusalem into two parts, with two capitals in Jerusalem: one for the Jewish state, and one for a Palestinian-Arab state? And, by the way, should tiny Israel relegate herself back to her 1967 borders creating…