By JTA, JPOST— Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called the recent coordinated Paris attacks that left at least 130 people dead “blind terrorism.” Khamenei’s comments, released in a statement to “the youth in the Western countries,” were published Sunday by the Iranian IRNA news agency, the government’s official news agency. It is reportedly Khamenei’s…
DetailsBy AFP, Times of Israel— MADRID, Spain — Spain’s King Felipe VI on Monday honored Sephardic Jews who were banished more than five centuries ago during the Inquisition, after a law allowing dual citizenship for their descendants came into force. The legislation aims to correct what the Spanish government calls the “historic mistake” of the…
DetailsThink on this: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels.” For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.” For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will…
DetailsBy JPOST Staff, JPOST— A CNN Money article on the Middle East dropped Israel’s name from a map of the Middle East that accompanied a story on the turmoil in the region. The article, entitled “Beyond ISIS: 2016’s scariest geopolitical hot spots,” naturally featured the ongoing war in Syria and the image that originally accompanied…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Turkish military sources told the media that after issuing 10 warnings in five minutes, Turkish F-16’s opened fire, downing the Russian fighter jet. Photos of the incident clearly show two parachutes, indicating that the two pilots successfully ejected from the downed plane. One pilot is believed to have…
DetailsBy: JPOST Staff, JPOST— In the shadow of the Paris terror attacks that killed 130 people and as Belgian police sweep the country for terror suspects, the Chief Rabbi of Brussels said Monday that there is no future for Jews in Europe. Rabbi Avraham Gigi spoke to Israeli radio station 103 FM about the atmosphere…
DetailsBut for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. (Ezekiel 20:14)
By Herb Keinon, JPOST— Anyone joining Islamic State will forfeit their Israeli citizenship, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Netanyahu, who told ministers that indictments were filed last week against citizens planning to join the terrorist group, added that he has asked Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to advance steps to revoke their citizenship…
DetailsBy Dan Wooding, Breaking Christian News— (United Kingdom)— Canon Andrew White, the UK-born Anglican priest who is affectionately known as “Vicar of Baghdad”, has dedicated his life to making peace. (Photo via ANS) For many years he headed St. George’s Church in Baghdad, located in one of Iraq’s deadliest sectors, he has watched hundreds from…
DetailsWe do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. —Golda Meir
DetailsThink on this: “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Jesus.” (I Thessalonians 5:18) Pray like this: Father, we thank you that the myth that the Palestinians want a two-State Solution has been revealed for the lie that it is. Give Israel’s leaders the boldness to claim Judea…
DetailsThe War Against the West: Lessons & Implications “Those people are not coming to Europe to live; they are coming to die”. By INNA ROGATCHI After Friday 13th in November 2015, we are living in a different reality. The reality of switched off Eifel tower, evacuated Hannover stadium, shut down Brussels subway, and tanks on…
DetailsBy YOSSI MELMAN, JPOST— A study conducted by the Washington- based Institute for Science and International Security estimated that Israel had 115 nuclear bombs in its possession in 2014. The study, which was conducted by the institute’s founder David Albright as part of a more comprehensive evaluation of the worldwide inventory of plutonium, approximated that…
DetailsBy Daniel J Roth, JPOST— Thousands of Iranian paramilitary forces participated in mock drills and exercises simulating the capture of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Friday. Constructing a plastic replica of the al-Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, “tens of thousands of soldiers” conducted staged exercises dubbed “Towards…
DetailsBy JONATHAN S. TOBIN, Commentary Magazine— What if the supposed cause of terrorism against Israel were based on a lie? That’s the awful fact that was exposed yesterday by none other than Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10, Abbas admitted that in 2008 he flatly rejected an offer of statehood…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPOST— On Tuesday night, Channel 10 broadcast an interview with PLO chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas admitted publicly for the first time that he rejected the peace plan then prime minister Ehud Olmert offered him in 2008. Olmert’s plan called for Israel to withdraw from the entire…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 28:10 – 32:3, “Vayetzie” (And he went out …) Haftorah: Hosea 12:13 – 14:10 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:6 – 8 Gospel: John 1:19 – 51, “Zot adudoe” (This is the testimony … )
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