Scripture Reading for December 7, 2013
Torah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 18 New Testament: Ephesians 2:1 – 10 Gospel: Luke 6:9 – 16, “Amar lehem Yeshuah” (Jesus said to them …)
Torah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 18 New Testament: Ephesians 2:1 – 10 Gospel: Luke 6:9 – 16, “Amar lehem Yeshuah” (Jesus said to them …)
“Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem.”-–Talmud: Kiddushin 49b
This is the story of something so tremendously tremendous that it won’t happen again for another 79,000 years.
By CAROLINE GLICK— It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made it clear that they were committed to signing a deal with Iran as quickly as possible. And it…
By DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— A colleague who specializes in modern history remarked to me on Sunday that the deal signed with Iran is not comparable to the disgrace signed in Munich in 1938. In this historian’s eyes, the appropriate comparison is the West’s silence in the face of Hitler’s invasion of the Rhineland in…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— “What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it is a historic mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday morning about the nuclear deal reached hours earlier between world powers and Iran. “Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime…
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— They weren’t wearing swastika armbands or chanting “Sieg Heil!” during the Islamic Jihad rally this month on the campus of Al-Quds University. They didn’t need to. Everything about the event reeked of fascism and anti-Semitic bloodlust. Demonstrators at the Palestinian school paraded in paramilitary gear, with massed black flags, mock…
By JACK DAVID, NATIONAL REVIEW.COM — The announcement that the P-5+1 (the five U.N. Security Council members plus Germany) reached a nuclear deal with Iran has just been made. A few details of the deal have been announced and there likely will be others. But what has been reported so far is sufficient to conclude,…
By ISABEL KERSHNER, NEW YORK TIMES — JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders denounced the agreement reached Sunday in Geneva, saying they were not bound by it and reiterating the principle that Israel would be ready to defend itself without assistance against any threat. After weeks of intense lobbying against any deal between the world powers and…