By: RUTH ELLEN GRUBER, TImes of Israel— JTA – When Pope Francis crosses the Tiber River to visit Rome’s Great Synagogue on Sunday, he’ll become the third pontiff in history to do so. But his 1.5-mile journey to the towering Tempio Maggiore shows that what was once unthinkable is now the norm. “Our meeting,” Rome Chief…
DetailsBy Josh Cohen, JPOST— Love or hate him, the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Syria unquestionably upended Middle Eastern politics. Putin supported Syrian President Bashar Assad, established several military bases in Syria, created a de-facto Russian-Shi’ite axis, confronted Turkey and forced the West to re-engage with him. While all the region’s major players…
DetailsThink on this: “Just as you were at one time disobedient to God and have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.” (Romans 11:30-31) Pray like this: Gracious Father,…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 10:1 – 13:16, “Bo” (Enter … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13 – 28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20 – 34 Gospel: Luke 22:7 – 30, “Keshigiah ha’yom” (Then came the day … )
DetailsBy Giullio Meotti, Israel National News— It doesn’t matter that Jesus was Jew, born to a Jewish mother in a Jewish city of Judea, 135 years before the name “Palestine” was even coined by the Romans to erase the Jewish kingdom and 650 years before the Arabs started their conquest of the Middle East. When…
DetailsBy Dan Groski, American Thinker— If there is such thing as a “hockey stick” graph, it charts the disappearance of freedom, opportunity, prosperity and hope of the American middle class during the last 50 years. In 2008 Americans sleepwalked to the polls and elected a man who by his history, family, friends and even his…
DetailsBy ARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM— Jewish immigration to Israel from western Europe has reached an all-time high as a result of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a leading nonprofit group said Thursday, as France’s beleaguered Jewish community grapples with whether to refrain from donning Jewish skull caps for their own safety. The Jewish Agency,…
DetailsBy Unity Coalition for Israel— In the video produced by the pro-ISIS Palestinian Islamic Army (PIA), Hamas leaders are denounced for aligning themselves with moderate Arab leaders in the Gulf, who are described as “criminals and enemies of Islam.” Apparently, Hamas has been too kind to Christians living in the Gaza Strip. The narrator blasts…
Details2 God also said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,but by my name Yahweh I did not make myself fully known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.…
DetailsBy Lea Speyer, Breaking Israel News— Evangelical support for Israel is under threat as a growing trend of Christians consciously turning their backs on Israel continues to increase. To address this major concern among the Christian Zionist and Jewish community, The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is hosting a groundbreaking…
DetailsThink on this: “The Day of the LORD (Yahweh) will not come until the apostasy occurs and the Man of Lawlessness is revealed.” (II Thessalonians 2:1-4) Pray like this: Thank you Father that you are our Great Protector who shields your people from the Destroyer. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!
DetailsBy YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remembers well just how US President Barack Obama brushed aside Israeli objections and went ahead with the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran. Now, Netanyahu is reportedly planning some personal payback. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Netanyahu will make common cause with moderate Arab governments…
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