“T’was the Night Before Hanukkah”

By Nancy Rexin Evans T’was the night before Hanukkah in Old Jerusalem And all the rabbis were praying, “Baruch HaShem”. The menorahs were kindled by the windows with care, In hopes that Messiah soon would be there The children were stuffed full of doughnuts and jelly While falafel and humus danced in their bellies. And…

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Insight for Intercessors

From Our Anonymous Intercessor from Israel— With less than 24 hours before Hanukah is to begin, and after Shabbat had already begun in Israel, a wicked resolution was suddenly passed today against Israel in the United Nations. It has been 36 years since a United Nations resolution, formulated against Israeli settlements in the contested territory, was…

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Obama gives parting middle finger to Israel with anti-settlement resolution

By Aaron Klein, Breitbart— President Barack Obama set the tone for his future attitude toward Israel during his infamous June 4, 2009, speech at Cairo University, where he claimed the Palestinians suffer “daily humiliations — large and small — that come with occupation,” and referred to Palestinian terrorism as “resistance through violence and killing.” Obama…

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Crossing the line

By Avner Boskey, Final Frontier Ministries— The U.N. Security Council has just voted Resolution 2334 into law, declaring Israel’s restoration to Jerusalem to be illegal by a vote of 14 to zero. The US represented by Samantha Powers abstained on this vote. In 2011 the US vetoed a similar resolution. What does this vote mean…

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Obama enrages Israel on way out of the door

By Garth Kant, WND— Israeli officials are furious with President Obama for allowing the U.N. to pass a resolution Friday demanding the Jewish state “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.” With the U.S. taking the extraordinary move of abstaining, the Security Council unanimously passed the resolution,…

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Trump was extremely effective at stopping Obama from getting one last shot at Israel

By Breitbart— On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued President-Elect Donald Trump’s opposition to the UN resolution on Israeli settlements was an “extremely effective” means of stopping President Obama from getting “one last shot” at Israel out of “personal revenge.” Krauthammer said the resolution would have done “permanent…

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Israel warned Obama over UN vote, calling on Trump for help

By Michael Wilner, JPost— The Israeli government asked President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to intervene before a vote scheduled for Thursday at the UN Security Council condemning its settlement activity in the West Bank, just as Barack Obama planned to allow the resolution to pass. The Obama administration intended to let the resolution, spearheaded by…

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Israel Thanks Trump For Saving It From Spiteful Obama

By Israel Today— Israeli officials on Thursday thanked US President-elect Donald Trump for saving the Jewish state from one final jab from a spiteful President Barack Obama. Earlier in the day, Egypt tabled a resolution at the UN Security Council demanding Israel halt all Jewish settlement activity in the so-called West Bank, including the eastern…

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PM Netanyahu Delivers Christmas Greeting from ICEJ

PM Netanyahu Delivers Christmas Greeting from ICEJ from ICEJ on Vimeo. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday (December 21) to deliver his annual Christmas Greeting to the Christian world. In his traditional holiday greeting, Netanyahu stated: “To all of our Christian friends around the…

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16 Point Position Paper

In the spirit of these holidays, we are expressing our joy and elation over the 16 point position paper on Israel (please take time to read it below) written by Jason Dov Greenblatt and David Friedman (Friedman recently chosen by Trump as US Ambassador to Israel). We could not have expressed these 16 points any…

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Next Year in Jerusalem?

By James S. Robbins, U.S. News— In his March 2016 speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, then-candidate Donald Trump promised that his administration would “move the U.S. embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” Last week, ambassador to Israel designate David Friedman said he looks forward to working…

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Israel Shows What It Means to ‘Love Your Enemies’

By Israel Today— Israel won’t give an inch when it comes to defending against the state’s enemies. Every shot from Syria that crosses the border is met with a far stronger Israeli military response. But Israel also won’t sit idly by while its enemies suffer. Syria has openly declared itself an enemy of Israel. Dictator…

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Change is coming and change can be good

By Shoshana Bryan, Jewish Policy Center— President-elect Trump’s choice of David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel appears to be an excellent decision. It has already brought howls of protest from people invested heavily in the Oslo and subsequent accords, the “peace process” and the concept of the United States as an “evenhanded” broker between Israelis…

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Light in a dark world

By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— When the stars lined up to lighten the path of the Wise Men as they travelled from the East to worship the new-born King of the Jews, it was the dawning of an amazing new era. Now, 2,000 years later, the Jewish feast of Hanukkah coincides with Christmas. They are…

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Trump Advisor: West Bank Belongs to Israel

By Israel Today— A senior official in US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team visited this week and stated that the so-called “West Bank” clearly belongs to Israel. Becky Norton Dunlop (pictured) was touring the areas known biblically as Judea and Samaria when she told reporters: “Anyone who comes and visits Judea and Samaria sees that…

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Dermer calls on Trump to move embassy to Jerusalem

By Michael Wilner, JPost— Israel’s ambassador to the US on Tuesday called on President- elect Donald Trump to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, where it has been since the early days of the state, to Jerusalem. At his annual Hanukkah reception, Ambassador Ron Dermer said such a move “would be a great step…

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Video: Light of the Light

The Light of the Light short art film is dedicated to the Enlightened Memory of the Inna Rogatchi’s grandfathers, Abram Elovich and Eliahu Bujanover. Both of them were top engineers. Abram Elovich had been the son of devoted Zionists, and was instrumental during the WWII in the process of inventing and producing special anti-tank steel…

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