By Giulio Meotti, Israel National News— If I wrote from the point of view of my personal interest as a non Jew, I would tell Europe’s Jews: stay here, on our side, because your departure would bring irreparable harm. If I look at what better serves the interests of the Jews, it would not be so…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPOST— On Friday, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis will visit Israel as part of a tour of the region that will bring him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Djibouti. The declared purpose of Mattis’s trip is to “reaffirm key US military alliances, engage with strategic partners in the Middle East…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47, “Shemini” (Eighth … ) Haftorah; II Samuel 6:1 – 7:17 New Testament: Hebrews 8:1 – 6 Gospel: Luke 24:44 – 53, “Kol ha’catov” (All that is written … )
DetailsBy Karen McDonough/JNS.org— When Mark Rosenblatt touched down at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv April 5 and powered on his cell phone, he got the surprise of his mobile technology life. Rosenblatt received a text message from his cell phone carrier, Verizon, reading, “Welcome to Palestine.” “I did a double take,” said Rosenblatt, a…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post— Russia’s Ambassador to Israel Alexander Shein is expected to meet in the coming days with senior Foreign Ministry officials to discuss the significance of its surprise announcement earlier this month to recognize west Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. Shein is expected to tell his interlocutors that Moscow…
DetailsBy JPost— Israel should get ready for a possible escalation with Hamas in the summer, according to Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday. “We must be prepared for a confrontation with Hamas this summer,” he said, speaking to Army Radio. A member of the security cabinet and a former IDF general, Gallant continued,…
DetailsThink on this: Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that Day of the Yahweh will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he…
DetailsBy Dr Inna Rogatchi– The Death of a Rabbi Nowadays, there is hardly a holiday in Jewish life which comes without a cloud of sorrow. Just days ago, we were mourning the life of 21-year old British student taken so senselessly and so brutally in another terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem. And then,…
DetailsBy Bill Wilson, Daily Jot— A possibly significant prophetic event occurred over the weekend when voters in Turkey passed a referendum to afford the country’s president near dictatorial powers by replacing the nation’s parliamentary system with a presidential government. Associated Press reports that some 18 changes will “allow the president to appoint ministers, senior government…
DetailsBy Earl Cox, JPOST— After a hiatus of relative calm, anti-Semitism has been accelerating at an alarming pace across the globe. Its most ominous surge is in Europe, Australia and North America—those traditional bastions of equal rights. All is not quiet on the Western front. Global anti-Semitism rose 30 percent in 2013 and 40 percent…
DetailsThink on this: Yahweh bless you and keep you, Yahweh make his face to shine on you and be gracious to you. Yahweh turn his face toward you and give you his peace. In Jesus’ name, AMEN! (Numbers 6:22-27) Pray like this: Gracious heavenly Father, help us and remind us to pray God’s blessing on…
DetailsBy Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel initiative” 1. In the pursuit of peace, alliances and interests, western policy-makers tend to sacrifice perplexing Middle East reality on the altar of oversimplification and wishful-thinking, which has fueled regional fires. 2. According to the Lebanese-born Prof. Fouad Ajami, former Director of Middle East Studies…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 33:12 – 34:26, “Shelosh Esrei Middot” (13 attributes of God’s mercy … ) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:1 – 14 New Testament: I Corinthians 15:12 – 22 Gospel: John 20:1 – 18, “Barishon bashavah” (On the first day of the week … )
DetailsBy Shira Sorko-Ram, Maoz— When I moved to Israel in 1967 right after the Six Day War, I became aware of a cultural sensitivity far removed from the consciousness of the people of Texas, where I grew up. Very soon, I noticed that literally all Israelis were hypersensitive to any criticism of Israel. Immediately, the…
DetailsBy Susan Warner, Frontpagemag— Two years ago, in a news briefing, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) was among the first to sound the alarm that Evangelical Christians had launched an organized effort to abandon their long-held Biblical commitment to Israel: “Just when the annual ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ campaign will be hitting college campuses across…
DetailsBy Karen Stahl-Don, LLM, MA I. Introduction The purpose of this report is to explain that international law supports Israel’s claim to sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and to debunk the claim that Israel is illegally occupying that land. This report demonstrates that the international community’s pervasive belief that Israeli settlements are illegal under international…
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