By Moshe Ya’alon, LA Times— U.S. political leaders of both parties argue that destroying Islamic State is America’s top priority in the Middle East. In reality, that’s not nearly as important as confronting the challenge posed by Iran. The nuclear deal that went into effect a year ago may have postponed the danger of an…
DetailsBy Mary Orndorff Troyan, Greenville Online— A Kiawah Island couple’s letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham about their son’s death in Israel has prompted the South Carolina senator to threaten U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority. Graham, along with Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., say the U.S. should stop all economic assistance to…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, JPost— A Who’s Who of world leaders will descend on Israel beginning on Thursday to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres, the state’s ninth president and two-time prime minister and one of its founding fathers, who died on Wednesday morning at the age of 93. Peres will be buried in a state…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitzaveem” (Standing … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 18 Gospel: John 3:14 – 18, “Shehigbihah Moshe” (Moses lifted up … )
DetailsBy Breitbart— USA Today reports: PARIS — Yael Haccoun and her family are Orthodox Jews from the working-class Paris suburb of Sarcelles, but they flew to Israel in late September to start a new life and escape the anti-Semitism around them. “French people think that it’s natural when Jews are targeted” in terror attacks, said…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— The Hamas terror group urged Palestinians to hold a “Day of Rage” on Friday, coinciding with the state funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, which will be held in Jerusalem on that day. The call is meant to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of a wave of terror…
DetailsBY Avi Issacharoff and Raoul Wootlif, Times of Israel— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas plans to attend Shimon Peres’s funeral in Jerusalem tomorrow, at the head of a PA delegation, Palestinian and Israeli officials said Thursday. Abbas’s office contacted the head of COGAT, Israel’s civilian authority in the Palestinian territories, Yoav Mordechai, to coordinate the president’s…
DetailsBy Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel— In late September 1957, Israel was set to sign an agreement with France. The French Atomic Energy Commission, after four years of negotiations, had agreed to provide Israel with a plutonium reactor. All that was needed in order to cement the deal was the signature of the French foreign…
DetailsBy JPost— Shimon Pere’s life is the story of a nation. In every major event that occurred throughout the State of Israel’s 68 years, Peres was there, playing a leading role. At the establishment of the state in 1948, he served as an aide to David Ben-Gurion. In 1956, he crafted the Kadesh operation during…
DetailsPlease enjoy this virtual exhibition of rare hand crafted Judaica. The video is created by the artist in the enlightened memory of her mother and grand-mother, Anna Pinsky-Buyanover and Adel Chigrinsky-Elovich. Musical video-essay featuring Power of Light series of the fine art photography by Inna Rogatchi on Judaica Symbolism. The series was conceived as a journey…
DetailsTHINKING ON LEONARD COHEN on his birthday and the eve of Rosh HaShanah 5777. By INNA ROGATCHI (C) On his 82nd birthday, which was September 21st 2016, Leonard Cohen released a single You Want it Darker, the title song of his new album with the same title, and the same message, seemingly. The song is…
DetailsRevelation 11:15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
DetailsBy Michael Wilner, JPost— The United States should give up on a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinians, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Saturday night. The former mayor addressed the Israeli American Council (IAC)– promising to remain apolitical– after four intense days of debate prep with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. His…
DetailsThink on this: “Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will be saved.” (Romans 9:27) Pray like this: Father, we believe that Jesus is our Redeemer and Savior — that because he was our substitute sacrifice for all our sins, we are now a part of The…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have turned medical care into a business that earns them hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. This corruption has enabled top officials in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to embezzle millions of shekels from the PA budget. In 2013, the PA spent…
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