By RON JAGER— For the past 27 days, Israel is once again fighting and sacrificing its best and brightest, defending Israel’s citizens against Hamas, a fanatical enemy. The war in Gaza, known as “Operation Protective Edge” has evolved into a watershed event in regard to Israel’s standing in the world and no less so for…
Think on this: “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:29) Pray on this: Gracious Father, grant that by your Holy Spirit, we might know our true identity. Help us to understand that we have been grafted into the Israel of God (and not the…
By VICTOR SHARPE— Terrorism needs its poison spewed to as wide a viewing audience as possible. This still begs the question: how can people of principle and truth respond so lamentably towards those who wave their automatic weapons and fire deadly missiles through the orb of the blue sky, bringing down passenger planes or indiscriminately…
BY RON JAGER— Over the past few days as one goes about doing routine chores, it’s almost impossible not to notice something different in our national pace. Even though sirens shriek every once in a while there is a kind of quietness, a kind of tranquility that always seems to be present during war time.…
By VICTOR SHARPE— The irrevocable Islamic and Koranic injunction upon all Muslims is to wage relentless war against any non-Muslim nation state that exists within what Islam decrees as the Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam). Wherever the Muslim foot has trod triumphal in the name of Allah, that territory is considered eternally Islamic land.…
By RON JAGER— The barbaric pre-mediated murder of 16 year old Mohammed Abu Khdeir shames the Jewish people everywhere and was immediately denounced by the full spectrum of Israel’s political and religious leadership, including Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Peres and the Chief Rabbi’s. The people of Israel expressed remorse and genuine shame that those…
By RON JAGER— Realizing that Israel cannot be defeated in the battlefield, the Palestinian Arabs have employed terror as a preferred method of destroying Israel from within. Terror has emerged as a strategic threat on Israel and should be responded to with the same perseverance and gravity that existential threats warrant. The release of 1,027…
By RON JAGER-— For the past four days, we the people of Israel have been holding our breath and praying for the safe release of Eyal Yifrah, 19, from Elad, Gil-Ad Shayer, 16, from Talmon and Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon. Both Frenkel and Shayer study at the “Makor Haim” yeshiva in Kfar Etzion,…
By VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ 7— “Then said Satan: This besieged one, how shall I overcome him? He has courage and ability, he has weapons and imagination. “So he said: I shall not take his strength, nor muzzle nor bridle him. Nor soften nor weaken his hands, only one thing I shall do; “I shall dull…
BY JIM HUTCHENS— Shavuot is what the Bible refers to as “Feast of Weeks.” Most non-Jews don’t have the foggiest idea what it means. The Greeks called it “Pentecost,” from a Greek word meaning 50. It is called “Pentecost” in the New Testament. Today, Christians acknowledge Pentecost fifty days after Resurrection Sunday or Easter. It’s…