Messianic Lite: Vayeilech, “And he went”

This week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 31:1 to 31:30. Although Moses is trying to be an encouragement, he is also a prophet and it is impossible for a prophet to be blindly naïve. Moses knows that once the people are in the land and they no longer have to rely on God for their daily…

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Miracle of Sound: Visit of the Jewish Soul

By Inna Rogatchi ©, 2018- During the three weeks of repentance preceding Tisha B’Av, the Av 9th, the day of the peak of Jewish sorrow, among many of the restrictions valid for the period, the ban on music is the most difficult for me. Music in all its variety is as natural and as necessary…

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Palestinians to Consider Severing Israel Ties, Erekat Says

By Abbas Al Lawati, Bloomberg— The Palestinian Authority vowed to reconsider its cooperation with Israel as it again accused the U.S. of taking sides in the stalled Middle East peace process. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat told reporters in Ramallah that the full range of political, economic and security ties would be reassessed in the…

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Q&A: Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt Details the Thinking Behind the Mideast Peace Plan

By Josh Hasten, Jewish Press— Tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump to help reach the “deal of the century,” Jason Greenblatt, who serves as one of Trump’s top Middle East envoys, has a herculean task before him: to help negotiate the peace plan between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Along with Trump’s son-in-law and senior…

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Palestinians Declare Trump Their Enemy, Threaten Explosion of Violence

By Israel Today— Palestinian Authority officials have warned that their people will respond to US President Donald Trump’s latest foreign policy moves in, apparently, the only way they know how–with an explosion of violence. Earlier this month, Trump made good on his promise to cut all American funding to UNRWA, the United Nations body set…

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The Democratic Socialists of America and Their Anti-Semitism Problem

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage— “Like most American Jews, I was raised with the delusion that Israel was a safe haven for me,” Julia Salazar wrote on Mondoweiss, an anti-Semitic hate site, while denouncing the Jewish State. Salazar’s rant had appeared on a racist site whose creator had complained that his publication had been banned from…

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Crisis on campus: A new generation of galvanized young Jews learns how to fight anti-Semitis

BY DEBORAH FINEBLUM, JNS— IfNotNow has a plan. It’s determined, according to its website, to create nothing less than “a movement led by young Jews to reclaim the mantle of Jewish leadership from the out-of-touch establishment.” Or, more specifically, to be “the generation to end our community’s support for the occupation.” Since the term “occupation”…

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Trump closing Palestinian mission in pro-Israel move

By Laurie Kellman, AP— President Donald Trump is closing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission in Washington, the latest U.S. blow against the Palestinians and an international court during the stalled Mideast peace process. Some things to know: THE GIST The administration’s move to close the PLO office in Washington is not directly connected to the…

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Quote of the Week

“Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the…

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Raiders of the Lost Jewish New Year

By Avner Bosky, Final Frontier Ministries— The traditional Jewish New Year is upon us. It’s called Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew and Rosh Hashoneh in Yiddish. The sons and daughters of Jacob nibble apples and honey as they hope for a sweet year. Synagogues register their highest attendance as the High Holy Days or ‘Days of…

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Truth Report: “Shana Tova – Happy Yom Teruah”

Think on this: “Listen, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound the dead will be raised imperishable, and e will be changed” (I Corinthians 15:51-52) Pray like this: Father,…

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US Ambassador: Golan will be ‘part of Israel forever’

By Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman believes that the Golan Heights will remain under Israeli sovereignty, and certainly won’t be placed back in the hands of Syria’s current leader, President Bashar Assad. In an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom, which will be published in full on Friday, Friedman says that…

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Friedman: We’ve thrown $10b at Palestinians; peace isn’t a millimeter closer

By Times of Israel Staff— The United States has “thrown more than $10 billion” in aid to the Palestinians, but that spending has brought the region no closer to peace or stability, the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman charged Tuesday, in an address explaining why US President Donald Trump thought it was important to…

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Red Heifer Birth, Paves Way for Messiah

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Last Tuesday, the Temple Institute’s Red Heifer program was blessed with results; an entirely red female calf was born, paving the way for re-establishing the Temple service and marking the final stage of redemption. Almost three years ago the Temple Institute inaugurated its Raise a Red Heifer in…

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