By AP and DEBRA KAMIN, Times of Israel— San Diego police said Sunday that the gunman who opened fire on a crowded synagogue on Passover, killing one person and wounding three others, was apparently acting alone and not part of an organized group. The suspect, 19-year-old John Earnest, has been booked into custody on one…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi— After a wonderful week of the Passover celebration, the Jewish world in Israel and the world did awake to two grim news: racist shooting in San-Diego and Nazi cartoon in The New York Times. We are back to our realities. Heroic 60-year old woman who thrown herself to protect the rabbi during…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post— The Palestinian leadership will soon dispatch delegations to several countries as part of its effort to rally support for its opposition to US President Donald Trump’s upcoming plan for peace in the Middle East, also known as the “deal of the century.” Palestinian officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— Return from the Abyss Is not the hypothesis on ‘a return from an abyss‘ an oxymoron? But in a still hard to comprehend segment of modern history, this very process has become a reality from the summer of 1945 onward for a massive amount of people. For those several…
DetailsThink on this: “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch… I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They will never be silent day of night. You who call on Yahweh,…
DetailsBy Times of Israel—- A Polish lawmaker said Friday that a committee examining potential German reparations to Poland hoped to complete its report by September 1, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion, and would likely demand up to $850 billion for the damage inflicted during World War II. Arkadiusz Mularczyk, who is leading a…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, JPost— In a twist to the “after-the-hagim ” line ubiquitous here around Passover and Rosh Hashanah, Jared Kushner – US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser – said Tuesday that the long-awaited Trump peace blueprint will be rolled out “after Ramadan.” “We were getting ready at the end of last year,…
DetailsBy Ryan Jones, Israel Today— There were those who were concerned that after recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, moving the US Embassy here, and giving a thumbs-up to Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, President Donald Trump was going to require some pretty big concessions of the Jewish state in his soon-to-be-released scheme for Middle…
DetailsBy Paul Strand, Breaking Christian News— Christians all know Christ died for them on the cross. But a doctor here in Indianapolis who studied crucifixion for a decade says until you understand what Jesus went through medically, it’s hard to fully appreciate just how much He suffered to pay for the sins of mankind. “It…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 12:21-51, “Pesach” (Passover … ) Haftorah: Joshua 5:2-6:1 New Testament: I Corinthians 15:3-4 Gospel: Luke 22: 7-20, “Pesach” (Passover …)
DetailsThink on this: “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (I Corinthians 5:7-8) Pray like this: Gracious Father, hasten the day when the world will acknowledge Jesus as the Passover Lamb of…
DetailsIn Exodus 13, the Bible presents a holy script for the holiday of Passover. Essentially, God designed a ritual which makes certain that the Jews institute the Exodus in their collective memory. Their Egypt experience binds them as a people who share a history of oppression but also one where they are commanded to remember…
DetailsBy Yossi Kuperwasser, Times of Israel— On the eve of the Israeli elections, the “PLO Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society” published a relatively detailed position paper in Hebrew, aiming to explain the organization’s positions regarding relations with Israel and its points of contention with Israel. It seems that the timing had to do with…
DetailsBy Daniel Pipes, Israel Hayom— U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict surfaced two years ago and to this day – remarkably – only he and a handful of aides know its precise details. A stream of leaks, however, contains enough internal consistency that their collation, supplemented by conversations with administration officials,…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 12:21-51, “Pesach” (Passover … ) Haftorah: Joshua 5:2-6:1 New Testament: I Corinthians 15:3-4 Gospel: Luke 22: 7-20, “Pesach” (Passover …)
DetailsBy David Lazarus, Israel Today— Messianic Jewish leaders were invited to participate in a recent pro-Israel event hosted at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in South Florida. The American Pro-Israel PAC (APIP), a new pro-Israel Christian initiative, brought together over 300 influential Evangelical Christians, as well as traditional and Messianic Jews. According to Joel…
DetailsBy David Lazarus, Israel Today— The long-anticipated details of the Trump Administration’s “Deal of the Century” is likely to stop short of giving the Palestinians a state, according to sources close to the White House cited by The Washington Post. Sources say that the “Deal of the Century” will focus on Israel’s security concerns. The…
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