By MICHAEL FREUND With its universal themes of heroism, faith and determination, Hanukka has become one of the most well-known and familiar of Jewish holidays. Or has it? Year in and out, Jews gather for eight nights to light candles, sing songs and celebrate the miracles performed for our ancestors more than two millennia ago.…
DetailsRomans 11: 30-31 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God you have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. For God has bound everyone over…
Details1: THE ADVANCING STEPS TO ESTABLISH A PALESTINIAN STATE WITHOUT ISRAEL’S INPUT OR APPROVAL Mahmoud Abbas is intending to present his unilateral draft resolution for Palestinian statehood to the UN Security Council as early as tomorrow. This draft resolution calls for the withdrawal (forced if necessary) of Israel from all of Judea and Samaria by…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— We have arrived at the most vulnerable stage in reconstituted Israel’s modern history. In 1967 those who were her enemies were easily identifiable. Now, those who casually contribute to the trend of her “de-legitimization” come from all walks of life, and many come from the very heartlands of Israel’s list of official…
DetailsBy STANLEY REED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, NY TIMES— The Israeli navy had detected smoky signs that a rocket might have been fired by Hamas from the shores of Gaza. As a voice over the loudspeaker warned to take cover, the crew raced up the metal stairs to a small gym that doubles as an air…
Details“Russia invades. Nigeria enslaves. China oppresses. Pakistan rapes. Iraq slaughters. North Korea starves. Iran nuclearizes. Syria massacres. Venezuela plunders. Afghanistan tortures. Sudan annihilates. ISIS beheads and Israel is the pariah state, put under the microscope by the morally noxious.”—Rabbi Shalom Lewis, Congregation Etz Chayim
Think on this: “Can a mother forget the baby nursing at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls, O Jerusalem, are ever before me.” (Isaiah 49:15-16) Pray on…
DetailsBy UNITED WITH ISRAEL— The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week condemning Hamas’ criminal conduct, including the use of civilians as human shields. The resolution, co-sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), also expressed support for the sovereign right of Israel to defend its territory and its…
DetailsBy ROBERT STEARNS, EAGLES WINGS— Evangelicals, while maintaining their view of Scripture and their faith in Jesus as the Messiah, are largely motivated in standing with Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. As someone who has spent the last 20 years of my life at the intersection of Jewish and Christian communities worldwide, I have…
DetailsBy JOHN LOMPERIS, JUICY ECUMENISM— Any government of sinful human beings in our fallen world is always in need of constructive criticism for its imperfections, some of which are much more dramatic than others. So of course, not all criticism of the Israeli government amounts to anti-Semitism. Nor does simply disagreeing with a particular U.S.…
DetailsBY WALID SHOEBAT— Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not only intend to revive the Ottoman Empire but thisMonday (Dec 8) he put to law to revive the dead Ottoman language and to make the Arabic-alphabet and the Ottoman language compulsory in Turkish education. The move has biblical significance. But before we explain the prophetic…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Israel’s increasingly vocal Christian antagonists have been trying to blunt support for the Jewish state by Christian Zionists by teaching that it must not be viewed as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. This despite the wholly unprecedented survival of an exiled people for 2,000 years and the eventual rebirth of their nation,…
DetailsBy BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— A sheikh called for the “slaughter of Jews” in a spontaneous sermon captured on video on the Temple Mount. In a video released by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Omar Abu Sara was filmed saying that Jews were “the most evil creatures to have walked this earth.” Addressing worshippers gathered…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— U.S. President Barack Obama sent a clear and sharp message to Israel on Tuesday: I will not give up on peace negotiations with the Palestinians, even during the final two years of my presidency. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro issued the message during a speech at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic…
DetailsBy JTA— Israel implemented special procedures to speed up the immigration process for people with Jewish origins from Ukraine’s conflict zones. The new procedures were implemented earlier this month and formulated in a new executive directive issued by the headquarters of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority to its branches, the authority’s spokesperson, Sabine Haddad, told…
DetailsRomans 11:28-29 28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.
DetailsBY JAN WILLEM VAN DE HOVEN, INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ZIONIST CENTER— When Shimon Peres lost to Benjamin Netanyahu with a very slight margin in the 1996 election for Prime Minister, he, Shimon Peres, was interviewed the day following by Daniel Ben Simon from the Haaretz. These are the words with which Shimon Peres explained his defeat…
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