BY Michael Eisenstadt and Jeffrey White, American Interest— The recapture by pro-Assad regime forces—including Lebanese Hizballah—of rebel-held Aleppo (December 2016) and of IS-held Deir al-Zur (ongoing as of September 2017) may not just mark the denouement of Syria’s tragic civil conflict, but may also pave the way for the next Hizballah-Israel war. Buoyed by these…
DetailsBy John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes— A small group of U.S. troops carrying out a missile-defense mission in Israel is taking up residence inside a new barracks building on an Israeli base in an effort to improve living conditions for troops. The barracks, which officially opened during a ceremony Monday, will house about 40 soldiers,…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 1:21 – 2:24, “Ha’ zinu” (Give Ear … ) Haftorah: I Samuel 1:1 – 2:10 New Testament: I Thessalonian 4:13 – 18 Gospel: Matthew 24:29 – 31, “Meyad achari zarat” (After the tribulation …)
Detailsby Michael Brown via Charisma News Yes, it would be wonderful if Jesus returned for His people this week, but it’s not going to happen. Count on it. The Second Coming will not place this year on Sept. 23. How can I be so sure? The Bible tells me so, and not in some ambiguous,…
DetailsBy Yoram Ettinger 1. Rosh Hashanah (“the beginning of the year” in Hebrew), the Jewish New Year, is celebrated on the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrei (תשרי). Tishrei was a Babylonian term for launching the agricultural (creation) calendar, starting with the planting of seeds and the first rain. 2. Rosh Hashanah highlights…
DetailsThe new art work and musical video presented here has been created by the artist Inna Rogatchi on the eve of Rosh HaShanah 5778. The work, while showing a wide variety of the characters and situations, aims, at the same time, to reflect on the essence of the Jewish ‘spiritual psyche’. It aims to bring…
DetailsBy Israel Today— A top Iranian general this week again threatened to destroy Israel, saying the Jewish state’s demise would come even sooner if it didn’t keep quiet about the nuclear deal Tehran signed with Barack Obama. “Israel should stay quiet and count the days until its death. Its smallest mistake will result in its…
DetailsBy Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— For the first time in history, the United States on Monday established an official, permanent military base in Israel: an air defense base in the heart of the Negev desert. Dozens of US Air Force soldiers will call home the new base, located inside the Israeli Air Force’s…
DetailsBy James M. Hutchens The Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah, gives us a clue as to when the second coming of the Messiah will occur. As we know, all of Yahweh’s appointed Feasts (Leviticus 23:4) were entrusted to Israel and they all point to some aspect of the person and work of Jesus. For…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, JPost— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will suggest “concrete ideas” to US President Donald Trump during their meeting in New York on Monday to either change or scrap the Iranian nuclear deal, sources in the Prime Minister’s entourage said on Sunday. The meeting comes amid a debate in Washington over whether the US…
DetailsThink on this: “You will not see me again until you say ‘Blessed is he that comes in the name of Yahweh’” (Matthew 23:39) Pray like this: Father, we beseech you to fast forward the signing of the Daniel 9:27 covenant so that we can begin the count down to the return of Jesus. In…
DetailsBy Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe— IT WAS early September 1956, the High Holidays were approaching, and Elihu Schimmel was in the Cold War’s coldest theater. The young internist, an Orthodox Jew, had graduated from Yale Medical School in the spring of 1954 and gotten married the following year. A week after his wedding, he’d entered…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitzavim” (Standing … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 12 Gospel John 16:1 – 16, “Et eleh debarti” (These things I have spoken … )
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