By Yair Rosenberg, Tablet Mag— The cacophony that accompanies every upsurge in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can make it seem impossible for outsiders to sort out the facts. Recent events in Gaza are no exception. The shrillest voices on each side are already offering their own mutually exclusive narratives that acknowledge some realities while scrupulously avoiding…
DetailsBy Israel Today— A Hamas official admitted in an interview with Arab media this week that the vast majority of those killed during mass riots at the Gaza borders were members of the terror group. According to Hamas official Salah Bardawil, 50 of the 62 claimed fatalities were Hamas terrorists. In other words, the international…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 1:1 – 4:20, “Bamidbar” (In the desert …. ) Haftorah; Hosea 2:1 – 23 New Testament: Acts 2:1 – 11 Gospel: Luke 24:13 – 35, “Amaum” (Emmaus … )
DetailsThis week we begin the fourth book in our weekly Torah readings. We covered the grand sweeps of human history in the book of Genesis. We followed the sons of Jacob into Egypt and reached the dramatic climax of the Jewish story when Pharaoh finally let God’s people go. Leviticus beat the drum for purity…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, JPost— Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales arrived in Israel on Tuesday to take part in the official reopening of the Central American country’s embassy in Jerusalem’s Malha Technology Park on Wednesday. Guatemala had an embassy in Jerusalem until 1980. But it pulled it out – along with several other countries – when the…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Monday, the US Embassy was officially opened in Jerusalem as per the orders of President Donald Trump in what many believe was an integral part of the Messianic process that will culminate in another architectural landmark: the building of the Third Temple. Several prominent rabbis weigh in…
DetailsBy Israel Kasnett, JNS.org— U.S. President Donald Trump made a campaign promise few thought he would keep. “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem,” he announced in 2016. Now that promise is about to be fulfilled. Preparations for the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on…
DetailsThink on this: “I have posted Watchmen on your walls , O Jerusalem: They will never be silent day or night. You who call on the name of Yahweh, give yourselves no rest and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of all the earth.” (Isaiah 62:6-7) Pray like…
DetailsBY Yaakov Lapin, JNS.org In striking more than 50 Iranian military targets within 90 minutes early on Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Force displayed just a sample of its advanced, intelligence-fueled precision firepower, dealing a crushing blow to Iran’s assets in Syria. This exchange of fire represents a new, stepped-up phase in the escalating Israeli-Iranian…
DetailsBy Haaretz— Israel attacked dozens of Iranian targets in Syria in what the military said was the most extensive strike in the neighboring country in decades. The strike was carried out in response to a barrage of 20 rockets that were fired from Syria at Israeli military outposts. The Israeli military accused the Revolutionary Guards’…
DetailsBy Emmie Goodenough, Breaking Christian News— On Monday night, the Knesset plenum passed the first reading of the proposed “Nationality Law,” which seeks to canonize “Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People.” Sixty-four Knesset members voted in favor of the law, and 50 parliamentarians opposed. In addition, the law would enshrine the state’s…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— David Nekrutman became the first Orthodox Jew to graduate from Oral Roberts University with a Masters Degree in Christian Studies. His studies gave him the tools to create better understanding between Jews and Christians in order to bring the two religions closer in an unprecedented manner. “If Am…
DetailsBy Yochanan Visser, Israel Today— In the run-up to the US Embassy move to Jerusalem, Turkey, together with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, is pumping a quarter of a billion dollars into the Islamification of the city, according to Israel’s Hadashot News (formerly Channel 2 News). The Wakf, the Muslim custodian of the Islamic…
DetailsOur weekly Torah portion covers Leviticus 25: 1 to 27:34. Before the Jews enter the Holy Land, they are instructed how to care for the covenanted land and build a productive, but just, society. The text introduces the law of sevens in the annual cycle. When their period of wandering is over and they enter…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “Behar” (on the mountain … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: Acts 1:4 – 11 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Gudal” ( His custom … )
DetailsOn May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Seduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film…
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