By following the Jewish calendar reading cycle for one year, we have already made it to the third book of the Torah. Our first section, called Vayikra for “he called,” goes from Leviticus 1:1 to 5:26. No longer are we blazing through creation and early human history like in Genesis. We aren’t following the earth…
DetailsBy Debkafile— On Wednesday, March 14, President Donald Trump decided to take the plan off his immediate agenda. There was no formal announcement. Trump briefed his special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt to pass the word round among officials from the Middle East who were attending a conference at the White House on the Gaza…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, JPost— Two months after a Pew poll led to much hand-wringing in Israel because it indicated a deep partisan split over Israel, Gallup released its own poll this week showing that American public support for Israel has never been higher. Under the headline “Americans Remain Staunchly in Israel’s Corner,” Gallup – in…
DetailsTorah: 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 … )
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBook 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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.…
DetailsThink 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,…
DetailsBy 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.…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsTorah: 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… )
DetailsThis 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…
DetailsBy 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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