Scripture Reading for September 20, 2014
Torah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitzavim” (Keep the words …) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 18 Gospel: Matthew 24:29 – 35, “Miyad achareh” (Immediately after … )
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Wish I’d said that
“The Jews gave us a whole new vocabulary, a whole new Temple of the Spirit, an inner landscape of ideas and feelings that had never been known before…Because of their unique belief—monotheism—the Jews were able to give us the Great Whole a unified universe that makes sense and that, because of its evident superiority as…
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‘Occupation’ and anti-Semitism
By EVELYN GORDAN, COMMENTARY— A Yale University chaplain recently resigned “on his own initiative” over a letter to the New York Times blaming Israel and the Jews for anti-Semitism. Clearly, nothing Israel does or doesn’t do justifies attacks on Jewish citizens of other countries, but even if it did, Rev. Bruce Shipman’s reasoning would have…
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Video: Hamas rap
Hamas, a terrorist organization similar to Isis, rules over the Gaza strip. In the summer of 2014 Hamas provoked a war with Israel. Hamas is Palestinian, but it oppresses the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza and launches rockets into Israel to terrorize Israeli civilians. Hamas calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of…
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Spot Report: “Are we committing national suicide?”
Think on this: “Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O Yahweh. May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that you, whose name is Yahweh — that you alone are the most High over all the earth.” (Psalm 83:16-18) Pray on this:…
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East Jerusalem’s Arabs bite their nose to spite their face
By RON JAGER— This week we sadly witnessed yet again rioting and violence in east Jerusalem including the use by local Arab residents of lethal weapons against Jewish neighborhoods, Jewish motorists, and police and military forces. East Jerusalem’s Arab residents are trying to destroy any semblance of co-existence in Jerusalem, the Capitol of the State…
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Wish I’d said that
“Peace under a semblance of peace is but a manifold illusion.”—W.B. Yeats
ISIS Popularity Growing in Israel
By ISRAEL TODAY— As the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) inches closer to Israel in its sweeping conquest of Iraq and Syria, the real threat is that the extremist movement will gain a large number of followers in the Holy Land long before its current warriors reach the borders of the Jewish state. A recent government…
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Prayer points for Israel
REPENTANCE FOR SIN AGAINST ISRAEL: Respond with: Lord forgive us and have mercy on us. Abba YHVH, we confess our sin to you as a nation in regard to our words, actions, and motives concerning Israel. –We have not loved what You love, nor hated what You hate. We have not honored and defended, what…
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Ted Cruz booed for supporting Israel at Christian conference
By ARI SOFFER, ARUTZ 7— Leading Republican Senator and Christian supporter of Israel Ted Cruz (R-Tx) was booed off stage at a gala dinner in support of the Middle East’s embattled Christian minority, after voicing support for Israel. Cruz was the keynote speaker at the event, hosted by the recently-founded In Defense of Christians (IDC)…
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Truth Report: The heresy of Palestinian Replacement Theology
Romans 11: 13-15 I am talking to you Gentiles. In as much as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will…
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UN houses, but does not sponsor, anti-Semitism conference
By CATHRYN J. PRINCE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— On the third floor of the United Nations, just two doors down from the Security Council, more than 500 people gathered this week for a conference on the rise of anti-Semitism. For some, the location was a touch ironic. Because it wasn’t the UN that decided to address…
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The Conditions of Victory
By SHOSHANA BRYEN, GATESTONE— The Israeli public is in a notably bad mood. The Hamas rockets have, for the time being, stopped; the current cease-fire is holding. The tunnel threat, a strategic one most Israelis had not understood until several days into the war, has been alleviated; many Hamas rocket manufacturing facilities have been destroyed;…
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Egypt: Establish Palestinian state in Sinai
By ARYEH SAVIR, UNITED FOR ISRAEL— Egyptian President Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly proposed to Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas to extend the Gaza Strip into the Sinai area and establish a Palestinian state there. According to the plan, Egypt would provide a 1,600-square-kilometer area in the Sinai Peninsula near the Gaza Strip,…
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Tzipi, where is your allegiance… With Israel or Obama and Kerry?
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Who is in denial? Is it Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel’s Minister of Justice, Tzipi Livni, or US Secretary of State, John Kerry? Livni and Kerry are again pushing for a renewal of Israeli-Palestinian talks. What is it about terrorists that Livni and John Kerry do not understand? One way to…
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Scripture Reading for September 13, 2014
Torah: Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8, “Ki tavo” (When you go in …) Haftorah: Isaiah 60:1 – 22 New Testament: Ephesians 1:3 – 14 Gospel: Matthew 23:23 – 24, 37 – 39, “Oey lechem” (Woe to you … )
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Operation Aliyah to France
Why are we revitalizing our Operation Aliyah ministry? Because antisemitism is rapidly on the increase world-wide! The Jerusalem Connection is joining a chorus of high-profile figures who are pleading with France’s Jews to make Aliyah. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said antisemitism in Europe is reaching pre-WWII levels. Vladimir Sloutsker, current head of the Israel…
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