By RON JAGER— The weeks following Pesach are always an emotionally charged period here in Israel. From celebrating the redemption of the Jewish nation out of slavery during Pesach, we move on to Yom HaShoah, our annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. We then move on to Yom HaZikaron; on this day Israelis will pay tribute to…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— It’s not just a matter of interpretation. It’s a matter of understanding the game, the players and the field. Headlines have accused President Obama of making misleading statements about the framework for the nuclear deal with Iran. Even the Ayatollah Khamenei weighed in on White House distortions. Seems that by…
DetailsBy AMOS YADLIN and URI SADOT, JEWISH POLICY CENTER— Nearly 120 years after Theodore Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Zionism has never been stronger and its strength is growing by the day. “Once there was nostalgia,” the adage goes, but viewing the past through rose-colored glasses can lead to an inaccurate understanding…
DetailsBy NOA AMOUYAL, JPOST— One doesn’t have to be very vigilant to realize European Jews are in crisis mode. The tragic May attack at the Jewish Museum in Belgium where four people died; the grisly shooting at the Hyper Cacher market in France in January that claimed an additional four lives; and repeated incidents of…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— A Palestinian Christian source suggested that if Israel would do more to reach out to and protect his community, the Jewish state would find something of a natural ally amidst a sea of Muslim hostility. He also noted that this was far more true of Orthodox and Catholic Christians than of Evangelicals,…
Details*Watch the Two by Two Rap Video with Andrew McKain Think on this: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and I…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK— This week in two meetings with prominent American Jews, President Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet. Either the Jews of America will rise to the challenge or they will allow Obama to marginalize them. It is their choice, and now is the time for them to decide. In the first meeting, Obama…
DetailsBy DARYL HEDDING, ICEJ at ISRAEL ANSWERS— The first thing to note about the framework agreement is that there is no framework agreement. Though an announcement was made at the end of recent talks in Lausanne that a so-called framework agreement had been reached with Iran over its renegade nuclear program, nothing was signed by…
Details“The Holy One, blessed be He, created days, and took to Himself the Sabbath; He created the months, and took to Himself the festivals; He created the years, and chose for Himself the Sabbatical year; He created the Sabbatical years, and chose for Himself the Jubilee year; He created the nations, and chose for Himself…
DetailsWhat is Yom Ha’atzmaut? Israeli Independence Day (known in Hebrew as Yom Ha’atzmaut) celebrates the creation of the Jewish State. Most countries have a birthday, a day each year that they remember their country’s start. In America, we celebrate our birthday on the 4th of July. This year, Israel’s Independence Day is on May 11th…
DetailsBy ASSOCIATED PRESS— As Israel marked its Holocaust memorial day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Iran to the Nazis on Wednesday and warned the Islamic Republic must be prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons. Netanyahu linked the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews in World War II to Iran’s contested nuclear program and some of the…
DetailsBy BREITBART— Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that documented incidents of anti-Semitic attacks increased by almost 40 percent from 2013 to 2014. The research found that at least 766 anti-Semitic attacks occurred in 2014, compared with 554 incidents in 2013. The authors of the report explained that the anti-Semitic acts were “perpetrated with…
DetailsBy DAVID LAZARUS, ISRAEL TODAY-— “When I stood before the actual baby clothing, little dresses and tiny shoes that had been stripped off the infants being thrown into the gas chambers, I just couldn’t take it,” said Tehilah, one of the young Jewish girls who came to Auschwitz with a Messianic initiative called Yad B’yad, which…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— April 15th this year was not just the day to pay our taxes to an all-powerful and intrusive government. No, this year April 15th marked Holocaust Remembrance Day which should remind us of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its European allies against the stateless and hapless Jews a mere 70…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47, “Shemini” (Eighth … ) Haftorah: II Samuel 6:1 – 7:17 New Testament: Hebrews 8:1 – 6 Gospel: John 8:52 – 59, “Ani hu” (I am … )
DetailsBy ADL— Below is a partial listing of anti-Semitic incidences in France since the time when the Second Intifada spread to France. This is the continuing story of the uprising which began in Africa in the 1950 and today continues with the uprising led by the Islamic State. We need to bring 1,000 French Jews…
DetailsRomans 10: 13 “Everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved.”
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