Scripture Reading for March 17, 2018
Torah: Leviticus 1:1 – 6:7, “Vayikkra” (and he called … ) Haftorah: Ezekiel 45:16 – 46:18 New Testament: Hebrews 13:10 – 15 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Lechayeem” ( to fulfill … )
DetailsIranian official on TV: ‘Liberation of Jerusalem is the most important thing’
By JNS— Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution said in a lecture that aired on IRIB Ofogh TV on March 2 that the West was trying to prevent Iraq from becoming the leader of the Arab world. According to Azhgadi, Egypt has become a very poor country, thus losing its…
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Palestinian Textbooks Teach War and Not Peace
By Earl Cox, JPost— If Israel and the Palestinians are ever to forge an agreement meaningful to both sides, Palestinian educational reform must be a linchpin. Palestinian schools, including those run by UNRWA, model radical Islamic madrassas (religious schools), incubators of violence and terrorism that exploit education to indoctrinate the next generation. Billions in foreign…
DetailsPoliticide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state By Victor Sharpe
Book Review By Joan Swirsky The word Politicide was first coined by Abba Eban––Israel’s foreign minister in 1967––to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, independent State of Israel by enemies both within and outside of the fledgling state. When Victor Sharpe first read the word, he told me how it resonated in “the deepest…
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Will Turkey Lead An End-of-Days Global Islamic Jihad Against Israel And The US?
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— A recent study by a Middle East analysis organization based in Washington DC revealed that the Turkish president’s call for 57 nations to join together to form an anti-Israel army of Islam could create the most formidable military force on the planet. One Israeli expert on Islam stated emphatically, “make…
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You Cannot Whitewash Away Polish Anti-Semitism
By Sara Stern, EMET— Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was forced last week to deny being a Holocaust revisionist, after suggesting that Jews were complicit in their own genocide. Referring to a new Polish law making it illegal to say the country has responsibility for the Holocaust, an Israeli journalist, and son of Polish survivors asked…
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A Dying Church Takes Time to Give Israel a Kick
By Dexter Van Zile, JNS— You have to hand it to the Presbyterian Church USA. Its leaders can’t figure out how to recruit new members or stop churches from leaving the denomination in droves, but they sure do know how to run a propaganda war against Israel and its Jewish supporters in the United States.…
DetailsTruth Report: “Christians are totally unprepared for the future!”
Think on this: “Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in, because the time is near” (Revelation 1:3) Pray like this: Father, move your people to read the prophetic scriptures that they may be prepared for the future darkness,…
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Christians emerge as key patrons for Jews moving to Israel
By TIA GOLDENBERG, Times of Israel— Israel’s founding fathers, who etched a commitment to encouraging Jewish immigration into the declaration of independence, might be surprised to find that, seven decades later, the state is relying on Christians to fulfill that promise. What was once a strictly Jewish-funded mission is increasingly being bankrolled by evangelical Christians.…
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Global Support for Third Temple Coin
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— A newly minted coin featuring President Trump, King Cyrus, and the Third Temple has been featured in media around the world, graphically illustrating that support for the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount is now a global phenomenon that is transcending political and religious boundaries. Three weeks ago, the nascent…
DetailsU.S. and IDF Troops, In Major Joint Drill, Simulating Battle on 3 Fronts
By Anna Ahronheim, JPost— Juniper Cobra, the largest joint US-Israeli air-defense exercise, is under way, with thousands of troops deployed across the country simulating scenarios where Israel faces missile barrages simultaneously on various fronts. In the two years since the last Juniper Cobra exercise, Israel’s enemies have changed. And while 2017 was a relatively quiet…
DetailsScripture Reading of March 10, 2018
Torah: Exodus 35:1 – 40:33, “Vayakhel” (and he assembled …) Haftorah: I Kings 7:40 – 50 New Testament: I Corinthians 3:11 – 17 Gospel: Mark 2:23 – 28, “Ha Shabbat” (The Sabbath… )
DetailsMessianic Lite: Vayak’hel, “And he Assembled”
This week marks our 22nd Torah portion in the annual reading cycle. The text covers Exodus 35:1 to the end of the book. The portion is almost a copy of what we already read back in Exodus 25. Both sections expound on the minutia of the Tabernacle structure and its furnishings. The main difference is…
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The empty talk of two states
By Jonathan Tobin, Jewish News Syndicate— Time was, the endorsement of a two-state solution by the executive director of AIPAC wouldn’t have been news. But when Howard Kohr told those who gathered for the group’s annual conference on Monday that the organization still believes in a vision of two states for two peoples, it was…
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Louis Farrakhan … Again
By Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL— In recent times, there has been one constant in anti-Semitism in America: Louis Farrakhan. His lacerating speeches over more than three decades and more from his pulpit and perch at the Nation of Islam have repeatedly placed Jews at the center of conspiracy theories blaming them for everything from controlling the…
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Adding fuel to the fire
By Earl Cox, Israel Always— Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently accused leftist Jewish billionaire George Soros of funding anti-government campaigns challenging Israel’s deportation of tens of thousands of illegal African infiltrators. Soros denied it. But he also denied grants to anti-Israel groups such as J Street and Adala—until DCLeaks posted several of his Open…
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Caroline Glick: Trump’s Urgent Lebanon Problem
By Caroline Glick, JPost— Since 2006 — the end of the Second Lebanon War — the U.S. has transferred advanced arms to the (LAF) worth $1.5 billion. The U.S. has also trained 32,000 LAF troops and officers. Over the past 18 months, the shipments have included a startling array of advanced weapons, including: six A-29…
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