By Robert Nicholson, Providence Magazine— The Jesuit magazine America recently reported that Arab Christians are fleeing in droves from Bethlehem, the hallowed city of Jesus Christ’s birth. In 1990, Christians made up a majority of the city’s residents; today they make up only about 15%. “With thousands more fleeing the city every year,” reports America’s…
DetailsBy Abra Forman, Breaking Israel News— The Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) will sue Palestinian TV for its blatant incitement to violence and murder against Jews and Israelis, announced the firm’s founder, attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, on Wednesday. Shurat HaDin, a non-governmental organization (NGO), is committed to “fighting terrorism and safeguarding Jewish rights worldwide” through legal…
DetailsBy Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute— Sabeel’s theology distorts the Old Testament by denying Jews any ongoing connection with the land of their origin, and treating them as a people abandoned by God. There is also repeated disparagement of Judaism as “tribal,” “primitive,” and “exclusionary.” Where most modern churches have left the anti-Semitism of the past…
DetailsBy Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA— The Israeli center-left is slowly sobering-up from the dream of a Palestinian partner. Although many of its leaders and thinkers have already recognized the fact that there is no partner for real peace, they continue to blame Israel for the dead-end the diplomatic process has reached. And the others still refuse to…
DetailsBy Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor— Egyptian parliament member and TV talk show host Tawfiq Okasha let the genie out of the bottle. Even though a shoe was thrown in his face by Kamel Ahmed, another parliament member, and despite the savage attacks directed at him in the Egyptian media and public forum in recent days, the…
DetailsBy Barak Ravid, Haaretz— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the attorney general to approve deporting relatives of terrorists from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. “I believe that this will dramatically reduce terrorist activities against Israel, its citizens and its residents,” Netanyahu wrote Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Wednesday. Netanyahu wrote that terrorists with…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick— The government has clearly awakened to the threat of the BDS movement; but our leaders still don’t seem to recognize that the answer to hatred isn’t inclusion. At a certain point, you just have to know when draw a line in the sand. Sloan and Guy Rachmuth, Jewish parents in Durham, North…
DetailsI do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. —Romans 11:25
By Rachel Avraham, Jerusalem Online— Missionaries from Jews for Jesus in Israel are allying themselves with the anti-Zionist Palestinian Christian organization Musalaha in order to attack the Aramean Christian community. After a speaker at a Musalaha conference called Aramean Christians loyal to Israel “collaborators,” the Aramean community responded robustly. JerusalemOnline reported last year that Father…
Details“Beloved is man for he was created in God’s image. Still greater was the love shown him in that it was made known to him that he was created in God’s image.”—-Rabbi Akiva
Think on this: “May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that you, whose name is Yahweh — that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” (Psalm 83:17-18) Pray like this: Grant, our Father, that the enemies of Israel who have proven to be the…
DetailsBy Uri Wilensky, Huffington Post— Which religious group is the victim of the most hate crimes in the United States? According to the hate crime statistics kept by the FBI, Jews are the primary victims of religious hate crimes. More than 50% of all hate crimes (57% in 2014) are committed against them. For a…
DetailsBy Andrew Silow-Carroll, Times of Israel— Two of my favorite television shows are about what I think it’s fair to call the “New America.” In Master of None, on Netflix, Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari plays a struggling actor in a very real and diverse New York. His best friend is the son of Chinese immigrants.…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 30:11 – 34:35, “ki tisa” (When you take …) Haftorah: I Kings 18:1 – 39 New Testament: II Corinthians 3:7 – 18 Gospel: Matthew 17:1 – 13, “Ve ‘hishtakna” (He was transfigured … )
DetailsA Note from Michael and Inna Rogatchi, The Rogatchi Foundation – www.rogatchi.org, www.rogatchifilms.org — We would like to address you now on a very important and timely (as ever) international initiative regarding Raoul Wallenberg. A prominent historian Susanne Berger has enough clarity and vision, and strength, too, to start this new chapter in the ongoing saga…
DetailsBy DEBKAfile— US Secretary of State John Kerry came away empty-handed from his latest meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in Amman on Sunday, February 21,- which shouldn’t have surprised him as it was par for the course. DEBKAfile’s Middle Eastern sources report that Kerry was finally persuaded that Abbas would not…
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