The Light of the Light: Hanukkah Reflections

By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— We are all are having our favourite and most favourite holidays in our annual circle of life. I am not sure if preferences are changed during one’s life. I doubt it. To me, these preferences are the marks of one’s character, poignant and tangible ones however subtle it might…

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Truth Report: Happy Hanukkah!

Think on this: “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven!” (Matthew 5:16) Pray like this: Father, since all Biblical feasts and festivals have the fulfillment in Jesus, help Christians to feel free to participate, in Jesus name,…

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Quote of the Week

“Twenty-two centuries ago, when Israel was under the rule of the empire of Alexander the Great, one particular leader, Antiochus IV, decided to force the pace of Hellenisation, forbidding Jews to practice their religion and setting up in the Temple in Jerusalem a statue of Zeus Olympus. This was too much to bear, and a…

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CAIR Official Calls for the End of Israel

By JNS— Hussam Ayloush, a senior Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official, in a tweet on Sunday called for the Jewish state to be “terminated.” “Iran’s regime calling Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’ is like the pot calling the kettle black. All the people of that region will be better off once both murderous regimes are…

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The great Palestinian dream: ‘To liberate Palestine from the river to the sea’

By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, JNS— Palestinian children are still being taught that “Palestine” includes all of Israel. Decades after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah still don’t recognize Israel’s existence. The photo above is a prime example of this. The Palestinian Authority Presidential Guards posted this image of a young…

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CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill Calls for the Eradication of Israel

By Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines— CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill spoke on Wednesday at the opening meeting of the United Nations commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People where he urged for the elimination of Israel. Hill started his speech by noting, what he called, the blatant violations of human rights implemented…

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Iran and Israel Preparing for Multi-Front War

By Yochanan Visser, Israel Today— Iranian leaders stepped up their war of words against Israel and the United States over the weekend while new information shows both the Israel Defense Forces and the Islamic Republic are actively preparing for a multi-front war in Israel. The new war of words started when Iran’s so-called moderate president…

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Even with Early Israeli Elections, the Left Will Lose

By Caroline Glick, Jpost— Israel is a multi-party parliamentary democracy. No one party has ever won an outright majority of seats in Israel’s 120-seat parliament, the Knesset. And so, since the first Knesset was elected in 1949, all of Israel’s governments have been coalition governments comprised of one or two major parties and several minor…

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Theodore Herzl and the origins of Political Zionism

Theodore Herzl, the father of political Zionism, was Jewish by birth but he had zero Jewish education. He was born in Budapest, the son of rather wealthy but non-religious Jewish parents. They eventually moved to Vienna. His parents sought to fully assimilate Theodore and although they never actually converted they did not give him a…

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