By David Benkoff, Daily Caller— This week, Jewish Democrats hurdled toward irrelevance as a force in American politics, and they don’t even know it yet. A few days ago, Israel found it could no longer sustain its longstanding pretense of esteem for American streams of Judaism. (The flashpoint was worship at Israel’s revered Kotel, or…
DetailsBy Tazpit Press Service— Israel blasted UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee for calling the country an “occupying power” in Jerusalem and condemning “all legislative and administrative measures and actions” that have “altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City.” “No faux ‘heritage committee’ can sever the bonds between our people and Jerusalem,”…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 22:2 – 25:9, “Balak” (Devastator … ) Haftorah: Micah 5:6 – 6:8 New Testament: Romans 11: 25 – 32 Gospel: Matthew 24:29 – 35, “Miyah achareh” (Immediately after … )
DetailsBy Ron Jager— In recent day’s liberal American Jewish leaders have done everything in their power to portray the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and his ruling coalition as purposely causing significant harm to the strong alliance between diaspora Jewry and the State of Israel. These leaders have leveled accusations that Netanyahu’s actions constitute…
DetailsBy Naomi Ragen— Something is terribly broken in the relationship between American and Israeli Jews. I say this as an American Jew who has lived in Israel for almost half a century. But if anyone thinks this started with Women of the Wall, or PM Netanyahu’s recent – and I believe unfortunate—backtracking on the agreement…
DetailsGenesis 17:7-8 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting…
DetailsBy LAHAV HARKOV, Jpost— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday blocked controversial legislation that would have made it nearly impossible to divide Jerusalem. The Prime Minister’s Office said Netanyahu, who made the move ahead of a planned Ministerial Committee for Legislation vote, wanted the coalition to reach consensus on what the bill would look like…
DetailsBy Our Anonymous Israeli Intercessor— What caused Lucifer to enter into rebellion against YHVH? Perhaps it was pride or jealousy. But which came first? Did his pride make him jealous of the Most High God, or was it jealousy that pridefully convinced Lucifer that he was entitled to possess YHVH’s exalted position and the throne? I guess it…
DetailsBy Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, JCPA— In a speech marking al-Quds Day, as established by Ayatollah Khomeini to identify with the Palestinian struggle on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened that in the next war with Israel he would open the borders of Lebanon to tens of…
DetailsBy ADELLE NAZARIAN1 Jul 2017557 PARIS, France — Former vice presidential candidate and Senator Joseph Lieberman is “optimistic” that President Donald Trump will move the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In an interview with Breitbart News from France on Friday, Lieberman said: I’m an optimist about this. And maybe irrationally optimistic in the sense…
DetailsThink on this: “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” (Romans 13:1) Pray like this: Father, we do believe you have graciously given us the government we have. Move us and help us to earnestly undergird our leaders in…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— According to a recent study conducted by the “Brand Israel Group,” support for Israel among Jewish college students has dropped 27% in the last 6 years. This mirrors a smaller but still significant drop in support among Americans generally, from 76% to 62%. According to Fern Oppenheim, the founder of the…
DetailsBy Linda Goudsmit, Israpundit– It is often necessary to look backward to move forward. The United States of America was founded upon the democratic principles of freedom, equality, justice, and upward mobility – the opportunity to assert power over oneself and determine one’s own destiny. “Only in America” describes the wonder of upward mobility where…
DetailsBy Lahav Harkov, Greer Fay Cashman, JPost— Israel and Diaspora Jewry need to renew discussions about the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said in Moscow on Thursday. “I’m very worried by the fact that it’s been a tense week and that there is no dialogue,” he said.” I think that…
DetailsThoughts on the first anniversary of the passing of Elie Wiesel By Inna Rogatchi (C), June 2017 The Present Tense In our Jewish tradition, the first yahrzeit, the memorable date of passing, of Elie Wiesel was on Sivan 26th which this year was on June 20th. In a secular calendar, the first anniversary of the…
DetailsBy Barney Breen-Portnoy, Algemeiner— Israel accused Iran on Wednesday of using a Star of David as a target during a medium-range ballistic missile test last year. The Jewish state’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, gave the Security Council what he said was new satellite imagery of a white Star of David painted on the ground next…
DetailsBY ANNA AHRONHEIM, SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPost— “The next war will be pretty bloody for both sides. Israel will evacuate its population and I suggest the Lebanese do the same,” Lt.-Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi told The Jerusalem Post at a briefing in Metulla, Israel’s northernmost town at the border with Lebanon. Zehavi heads Alma, a local…
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