Scripture Reading for November 24, 2018
Torah: Genesis 32:3 – 46:43, “Vayeshlach” (and he sent … ) Haftorah: Obadiah 1:1-21 New Testament: Hebrews 11:1-20 Gospel: Matthew 26:36-46 “Gatsemaneem” (Gethsemane … )
DetailsTorah: Genesis 32:3 – 46:43, “Vayeshlach” (and he sent … ) Haftorah: Obadiah 1:1-21 New Testament: Hebrews 11:1-20 Gospel: Matthew 26:36-46 “Gatsemaneem” (Gethsemane … )
DetailsThink on this: “I’m going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding people reeling…on that day I will make the leaders like a firepot in a wood pile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.”…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPost— Israel’s security cabinet’s decision Tuesday afternoon to walk away from the war Hamas initiated Monday and to accept a “ceasefire” is frustrating and infuriating. Hamas shot nearly 500 projectiles into Israel in under 24 hours. It blew up a bus with a Kornet anti-tank missile. Sixty Israelis were wounded, several critically.…
DetailsBy Rabbi Tuly Weisz, Fox News— For 2,000 years, the Bible has been the greatest source of division between Christians and Jews. In fact, our bitter history is full of biblically-driven religious intolerance and persecution. However, in America’s arguably most divided city – Washington D.C. – there is a place that serves as a model…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 28:10 – 32:3, “Vayetzei” (Generations … ) Haftorah: Hosea 12:13- 14:9 New Testament: Revelation 11:1-12 Gospel: John 1:19-57, “Aduto shel Yochanan” (Testimony of John … )
DetailsBy Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— Israelis learned about the latest Gaza ceasefire following a two-day, 500-rocket barrage from the likes of Hamas and Al Jazeera. Only later did the Israeli media inform the country that our cabinet had agreed to this cessation of hostilities. None of the top national leaders–including the prime minister, defense ministry…
DetailsBy Israel Hayom— Hate crimes in the United States jumped 17% in 2017, with a huge 37% spike in anti-Semitic attacks, marking the third year in a row that such attacks have increased, according to FBI data released on Tuesday. The release of the data comes just weeks after a gunman burst into a Pittsburgh…
DetailsBy David Isaac, World Israel News— Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced his resignation in a press conference, Wednesday afternoon, expressing dissatisfaction with Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas. He says he will call for immediate elections. “I announce my resignation,” Liberman said. “Yesterday’s ceasefire, in combination with an agreement process with Hamas is a capitulation to…
DetailsBy Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The Israeli military deployed additional troops and tanks to the Gaza Strip border on Monday following the largest barrage of rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel from the coastal enclave in a single day. The army was reportedly given a green light from policymakers to pummel terror…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— The IDF represents Israel’s multicultural nature but underneath the wrinkled green uniform is a special army preparing for the very special war that precedes the Messianic era. Three rabbis weigh in on how this prophetic mandate affects every aspect of the IDF and Israel’s wars. Rabbi Rafi Peretz,…
DetailsThink on this: “The Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone He wishes and He Places over them the lowliest of men.” (Daniel 4:17) Pray like this: Father we pray for our leaders and ask that you would cause them to govern according to your Word, in Jesus’…
DetailsBy Tzvi Lev, Arutz 7— A London-based Arab newspaper reports that American and European nations informed Lebanon that Israel will attack the country if the Hezbollah militia continues to develop their long-range missiles. The Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah has been building factories in the heart of Beirut to convert missiles into highly-accurate precision weapons capable of…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Last week, the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries issued a statement calling on Israel to rescind its Nation-State Law. The law, though controversial, has no real practical implications but the push-back from the Catholic Church may do serious damage to Jewish-Christian relations which have been steadily improving since the…
DetailsBy Dr. Rivkah Lambert, Breaking Israel News-— According to the Anti-Defamation League, the number of reported anti-semitic incidents in the United States was 57% higher in 2017 than in 2016. The data for 2018 are not yet in. Unfortunately, the massacre at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh last month, in which 11 Jewish…
DetailsBy Michael Wilner, JPost— At a standing desk in his cramped, high-ceilinged West Wing office, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser has labored for nearly two years over a detailed plan for peace in the Middle East. Along the way he has granted a mere handful of interviews, none of which have provided…
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