Scripture Reading for May 28, 2016
Torah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “Behar” (On the mountain …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: Acts 2:1-8 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Hayom nitbaleh” (Today is fulfilled … )
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ISIS planning wave of attacks in France
By Reuters— Islamic state militants are gearing up for a campaign of bomb attacks on large crowds in France, host to next month’s Euro 2016 soccer championships, its spy chief has said. Rare remarks by Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, to the parliament’s defense committee spelled out “a new form…
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Ami Horowitz, a New York-based political satirist and video producer, went to Portland State University in Oregon to ask students for financial donations for Hamas. He openly explained that the purpose was to destroy the State of Israel through terror attacks against hospitals, schools and more. Are everyday American students against the Jewish state? Would…
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Israel’s newest MK: God thought I have things to do in the Knesset
By Noam Barkan, YNet— It was only a year and a half ago that right-wing activist Yehuda Glick was dangling between life and death. After being shot point-blank four times by a terrorist, he managed to utter “Shema yisrael” (the Jewish declaration of faith that the devout strive to say before death) before falling into…
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Ross: White House took ‘conscious decision to try to distance itself from Israel’
By Michael Wilner— Barack Obama is one of five presidents in modern history who has made a “conscious decision to try to distance from Israel,” his former aide, Dennis Ross, said on Sunday. Addressing The Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in New York, Ross, a veteran diplomat who has worked on peace negotiations between Israelis and…
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Perception as deterrence – Israel’s new Defense Minister
By Ron Jager— For the majority of the past eight years, President Obama and State Department “experts” have been treating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the central generator of political upheaval ravaging the Middle East without realizing just how marginal the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs has become or understanding that as far as the Sunni…
DetailsSpot Report: Israel’s inevitable war with Iran
Think on this: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. … I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. …On that day I will make the clans…
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Scripture Reading for May 21, 2016
Torah: Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23, “Emor” (Say! … ) Haftorah: Ezekiel 44:15 – 31 New Testament: I Peter 2:4 – 10 Gospel: Matthew 27:45 – 54, “Lamah azavtani” (Why have you forsaken me? …)
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Cardinal Robert Sarah: United States Faces ‘Insidious War’ Against Christians
By Thomas D. Williams. BREITBART— In a scathing address at a prayer breakfast in Washington D.C. this week, a high-ranking Vatican cardinal has denounced an “insidious war” against Christians taking place in the United States under the guise of tolerance. While other countries face “merciless beheadings,” “bombings of churches” and “torching of orphanages,” in the…
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Israel set to form ‘most right-wing government in history’
By AFP, BREITBART— Jerusalem (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to form the “most right-wing” government in Israeli history on Thursday, with Avigdor Lieberman, a hardliner loathed by Palestinians, expected to join as defence minister. Netanyahu’s allies were set for fresh negotiations with representatives of Lieberman’s far-right Yisrael Beitenu party to try to…
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In pro-Israel victory, Methodists recommend leaving BDS movement
By JTA, Israel National News— Just days after rejecting four resolutions calling for divestment from companies which operate in Judea and Samaria, the United Methodist Church recommended withdrawing from the anti-Israel “US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation”. In a nonbinding vote of 478-318 at its general conference in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, the church…
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Methodist church meeting votes down BDS resolutions
By TAMAR PILEGGI, Times of Israel— The United Methodist Church has rejected several resolutions calling for the 12-million-member Protestant church to divest from companies engaging in business with Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Church committees over the weekend voted down four Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions resolutions brought to a vote at the church’s quadrennial…
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Does God See the Jews As Enemies?
By Brian Hennessy, Israel Today— To those of us who love Israel, that question sounds preposterous. Yet many Christians suffer from what I call a Replacement Theology hangover. They finally made room in their eschatology for a restoration of Israel, but they do not accept the present return of the Jews to their ancient homeland as…
DetailsTruth Report: What is God’s heart and soul for?
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 will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. Jeremiah…
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This week’s prayer points
By The Israeli Intercessor (Anonymous)— “The spiritual season has changed, but most have not discerned that truth. Human strength alone … as it exalts its abilities … will now melt and fail. Only those hidden in Me … those who hide themselves in the cleft of MY Rock, will stand and thrive. In the coming turn…
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US Jewry distances itself from Israel
By Dr. Gabriella Berzin, Israel Hayom— The changes taking place among American Jews include a drop in support for Israel. They explain shrugging off their part in Jewish nationalism, or, we should say, Zionism, by criticizing Israel’s democratic values and its government’s policies, even lobbying against traditional U.S. government support of Israel. Movements like J Street,…
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Rejecting a Jewish President for an Evangelical One
By Tuly Weisz, Breaking Israel News— With months to go before the Presidential election, almost anything can still happen with the colorful candidates on the ticket. However, should it come down to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders against Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, American Jewry will be faced with a painful dilemma: whether to vote for…
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