Scripture Reading for April 7,2018
Torah: Deuteronomy 14:22 – 16:17, “Pesach” (Passover ….) Haftorah: Isaiah 10:32 – 12:6 New Testament: Revelation 15:1 – 4 Gospel: Luke 22:7 – 20, “Chag Ha’matzote” (Feast of Unleavened Bread… )
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What Holidays Do Jews and Christians Have in Common?
By Chosen People Ministries— The Festivals of Israel Commonly known to Christians as Pentecost, Shavuot is one of four spring festivals and one of three “Aliyah” festivals found in the Hebrew Scriptures, when Jewish men were commanded to go up to Jerusalem and worship at the Temple. The festivals of Israel were designed by God…
DetailsThe Ruling That Infuriated the Jordanians
By Arutz 7— The Jordanian government filed an official protest with the Foreign Ministry over the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court’s decision to reject the petition of the police to distance three 14-year-old girls who had prayed at the entrance to the Temple Mount. In his decision last week, Justice Shmuel Herbst ruled that the right of…
DetailsFormer Qatari Prime Minister: Israelis have a right to live in their own land
By JPost— Former Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani stated on Twitter Wednesday that Israelis have the right to live in their own land, as do the Palestinians. These statements came days after similar remarks by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In a series of Arabic tweets about the state…
DetailsIsraelis have right to their own land, Saudi prince says
By Israel Hayom— Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Monday, in another public sign that Riyadh and Jerusalem appear to be growing closer. Asked by U.S. magazine The Atlantic if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of…
DetailsThe world goes for Israel’s throat
By Giulio Meotti, Arutz 7— All the hypocrites of the world are now at Israel’s throat. The satrap Erdogan, who slaughters the Kurds, who invades Afrin, who persecutes Christians and who occupies Cyprus, has the nerve to accuse Israel of “terrorism” in Gaza. At least 289 and more likely 500 people have been killed since…
DetailsIsrael prepares for weeks of military and international tension
By DANIEL J. ROTH,HERB KEINON, JPost— Israel is bracing for several weeks of military and diplomatic confrontation that began with Friday’s march in the Gaza Strip. The march left 17 Palestinians dead and hundreds more injured, and its protests are expected to continue until May 15, which the Palestinians mark as Nakba Day, the “Day…
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Passover Miracle: Orthodox Jew Dreams of Jesus
By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— As we remember the death of Jesus in fulfilment of Passover, we also celebrate the resurrection miracle of God’s great deliverance from slavery into freedom. And for a bang up-to-date example of that, we need look no further than the testimony of Orthodox Jew Yonatan Perry. Having turned away from…
DetailsTruth Report: “The proof of the Resurrection!”
Think on this: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.” (I Corinthians 15:17-19) Pray like this: Gracious…
DetailsIDF chief: The likelihood of war has increased substantially
By Boaz Bismuth, JNS— “If the Palestinians think that they will organize a march and cross the fence into our territory, they are wrong,” IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot tells Israel Hayom in a special holiday interview. “We will enforce with an iron fist to prevent it. Haniyeh and the ones who send will…
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Exposé: The depth of anti-Israel hate on American campuses
By Noah Beck, Arutz 7—- The Pessin affair was part of a growing trend of anti-Israel hostility on U.S. campuses, but at least his story has a somewhat happy ending. Pessin resumed teaching last fall after an extended paid sabbatical, and – together with a colleague – convinced the school to establish a Jewish Studies…
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Who Separated Passover From Easter?
By Michael Brown, Christian Post— This year, as Christians celebrate Good Friday, Jews will be celebrating Passover. But most years, the two holidays are separated, sometimes by several weeks. How did we end up with two distinct holy seasons when, in the beginning, they were one? It’s important to remember that, two-thousand years ago, there…
DetailsHamas leader: Protests mark the beginning of our return to ‘all of Palestine’
By Khaled Abu Toameh, Times of Israel— Demonstrations Friday along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip mark the beginning of the Palestinians’ return to “all of Palestine,” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech at the scene. “We are here to declare today that our people will not agree to keep the ‘right of…
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The Palestinian leadership’s promotion of death-seeking culture
BY Earl Cox, JPost— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s priorities are not geared toward helping his people, but on maintaining his grip on power, privilege, and finagling foreign aid. The PA’s increased payments to terrorists and their families to $403 million a year, from $347 million last year are a stark incentive to violence and…
DetailsScripture Reading for March 31, 2018
Torah: Exodus 12:21-51, “Pesach” (Passover) Haftorah: Joshua 5:2 – 6:1 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:7- 8 Gospel: Matthew 26:17 – 30 “Pesach” (Passover)
DetailsMessianic Lite: Pesach I, “Passover I”
So far, we have been reading straight through the Torah from Genesis to Leviticus. But for the next two weeks, the normal Torah portion reading cycle breaks and focuses strictly on Passover readings. This will happen again for Shavuot in the spring and the high holidays in the Fall. If you didn’t already know, Passover…
Details5 Important Things to Know About Passover
By Rabbi Benjamin Blech, Aish.com— Scholars have long wondered why Jews who number less than one quarter of one percent of the world – as Milton Himmelfarb memorably put it, “The total population of the Jewish people is less than a statistical error in the annual birth rate of the Chinese people” – have had…
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