Scripture Reading for March 12, 2016
Torah: Exodus 38:21 – 40:38, “Pekudei” (Accounting of … ) Haftorah; I Kings 7:51 – 8:21 New Testament: Hebrews 13:10 – 15 Gospel: Matthew 24:1 – 8, “Betzeto” (He went out … )
DetailsTorah: Exodus 38:21 – 40:38, “Pekudei” (Accounting of … ) Haftorah; I Kings 7:51 – 8:21 New Testament: Hebrews 13:10 – 15 Gospel: Matthew 24:1 – 8, “Betzeto” (He went out … )
By Israel Today— Senior Iranian military officials this week boasted that they had stockpiled a huge quantity of long-range ballistic missiles that are pointed directly at Israel. Two such missiles were tested this week on targets at a range of 1,400 kilometers (870 miles), putting Israel well within range if fired from western Iran. Brig.…
In all of us, we are our stories. The experiences that make up our life dramatically impact the way we look at the world. Why does this Cuban, Texan Republican stand up and fight so relentlessly for the nation of Israel? This is his story….
By Susan Warner, Frontpagemag— Assuming Isaac’s paper is in agreement with his previous writings opposing Christian Zionism, he will likely assert that Zionists and their Christian friends are partners in an imperialist, colonialist enterprise from the very inception of modern Zionism in the late 1800s. Isaac, while he does not consider himself an anti-Semite, he…
By Caroline Glick, Jpost— Monday the Bethlehem Bible College, an Evangelical Christian college in Jesus’s hometown, opened its fourth biennial Christ at the Checkpoint conference. The conference, which is directed specifically toward US Evangelicals, will run through the week. Today, Evangelical communities in the US number anywhere between 60 and 150 million people, depending on…
By Ariel Rudolph, Israel Today— At the Christ at the Checkpoint (CATC) conference in 2014 an invitation was extended to Rami Hamdallah, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority and president of An-Najah University in Nablus, to give the opening address. It was under Hamdallah’s presidency that a grotesque Hamas-sponsored recreation of the Sbarro Pizzeria terror…
By Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) The pillars of Palestinian national identity reflect the concept that the essence of being a Palestinian is to deny Zionism. The first pillar claims that Judaism is only a religion and not a nationality or peoplehood, and hence the Jews are not eligible to a…
By Kehila News Israel— Kehila News Israel (KNI) brings you the first published survey online of Messianic Jews serving in the Israeli army or IDF (Israeli Defense Forces). KNI conducted the survey in cooperation with several local ministries that organize conferences and Bible studies on weekends for hundreds of Messianic soldiers currently serving in the IDF.…
By Caroline Glick, JPOST— The Message from Washington ahead of Vice President Joe Biden’s arrival in Israel next week show President Barack Obama’s hostile policies toward Israel will maintained until he leaves office. In recent weeks, the administration has warned various government ministers that any construction of housing for Jews in Jerusalem will be viewed…
By Abraham H. Miller, Spectator— In a poignant scene from the movie, A Time to Kill, the defense lawyer, played by Matthew McConaughey, describes in gruesome detail the brutal physical and sexual assault on a black child and then asks the jurors to close their eyes and imagine that child as white. Perhaps, it is…
By Paul Eidelberg— Extract from my book “Rescuing America from Nihilism.”: The “Palestinian people” is simply a cunning and colossal hoax. The hoax was fabricated by wily Muslims – masters of the art of dissembling (taqiyya) — to insinuate an alternative people to Jewish people’s possession of their ancient homeland. Professor Ephraim Karsh quotes the eminent…
Think on this: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from…
By Ron Jager— Returning to New York for my yearly winter visit, it becomes unavoidable to deny what’s on everyone’s mind. The candidacy of Donald Trump has kindled a revolution, a tectonic change in the expected voting behavior of Middle America. Not since the heydays of the Ronald Reagan presidency has Middle America, dormant throughout…
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…
By 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…