Scripture Reading for November 8, 2014
Torah: Genesis 18:1 – 22:24, “Vayera” ( And he appeared …) Haftorah: II Kings 4:1 – 37 New Testament: II Peter 2:4 – 13 Gospel: Luke 24:36 – 53. “Shalom lechem” (Peace to you …)
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Godly Restraint or Cowardly Chicken…?
By EARL COX, JPOST— We’ve reached a point in world history whereby we are absolutely unable to discern good from evil, nor recognize the use of Godly restraint over cowardly chicken…. I’ve read The Book from cover to cover, so I know how the story ends. Otherwise I would be left to consider that some…
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Spot Report: Why are Jews and Christians hated?
Think on this: “In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God. Though your people be like…
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Countering the big lie
By NAOMI REGAN— There was a time during one of the so-called intifadas (forgive me for not remembering if it was the first, second, or in-between; all that savagery and murder runs together seamlessly in my head these days) that the Palestinians claimed that the Jews had no connection at all to Jerusalem, or the…
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Being safe while isolated
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Yehudah Glick has spent the better part of the last 20 years championing the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – Judaism’s holiest site. On Wednesday night, the Palestinians sent a hit man to Jerusalem to kill him. And today Glick lays in a coma at…
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Jerusalem braces for Palestinian day of rage
By LEA SPEYER, BIN— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has called for a “Day of Rage” on Friday across Jerusalem. Fatah has called on Palestinians across the capital to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, also known as the Temple Mount. The Palestinian news agency WAFA first reported the announcement on Thursday. “Fatah calls…
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Viral video: Obama and Israel, The astonishing truth
Barack Obama ran for president as a pro-Israel candidate — but his record tells a different story. We urge you to immediately watch it, and speedily forward it to as many people – Christian and Jewish leaders, political leaders, local news media, friends and family – as you can, likewise pressing them to publish and…
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Wish I’d said that
“Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you. Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.”–Edward Yashinsky, who survived the Holocaust but later died in a Communist prison.
Scripture Reading for November 1, 2014
Torah: Genesis 12:1 – 17:27, “Lekh lekha” (Go forth yourself …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:27 – 44:16 New Testament: Romans 4:1 – 25 Gospel: John 8:48 – 59, “Heshevu” (the Jews answered … )
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Obama, not Bibi, created U.S.-Israel crisis
By JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— Since Barack Obama became president, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg has been a reliable indicator of administration opinion about foreign-policy issues. Like some other journalists who can be counted on to support the president, he has been the recipient of some juicy leaks, especially when the White House wants to trash Israel’s…
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Video: Netanyahu responds to attack
Netanyahu responds to the anonymous criticism coming from the White House. Netanyahu knows that the President and his advisers do not represent the American people, the majority of whom still support the Jewish state.
Prominent Temple Mount activist shot by Palestinian terrorist
By LEA SPEYER, BIN— Prominent Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick, 49, was seriously injured Wednesday evening in a terrorist assassination attempt outside Jerusalem’s Begin Center following a conference about Jewish presence on the Temple Mount. Glick, the head of the Temple Mount Faithful (Haliba) organization, was shot three times. The shooter was wearing a…
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Relations between Netanyahu and US administration reach new low
By ISRAEL TODAY— The Obama administration’s anger, public condemnation and displeasure over Israel’s building policies in the settlement blocs and Jerusalem, and the Netanyahu government’s open expression of contempt for Obama’s understanding of the Middle East, indicate that profound changes in the relationship may be coming. Recently a senior Obama administration official commented about Netanyahu…
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This week’s prayer points
ISSUES IN NEED OF INTERCESSION: 1: TERROR ATTACKS, RIOTS, and WORSENING ODDS AGAINST ISRAEL During this past week, Jerusalem suffered a deadly terror attack, by a member of Hamas (driving his car into a crowd waiting to get on the light rail train); killing a three-month-old baby, and a 22-year-old young woman. Arab riots have…
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Truth Report: All Israel will be saved
Romans 11: 25-26 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer…
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Bethlehem Bible College–purveyor of anti-Israel propoganda
By TRICIA MILLER, JPOST— According to its website, Bethlehem Bible College (BBC) is a Christian college founded for the purpose of training leaders to serve local Arab churches and communities. BBC affirms the National Association of Evangelicals’ Statement of Faith and believes the Bible to be the authoritative word of God. But there is another…
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1,000 reinforcements called in to protect Jerusalem
By BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Israeli security officials are deploying an additional 1,000 Israeli Police and Border Patrol forces in Jerusalem due to the recent escalation of violence and terror in the capital. Security forces are expected to work alongside the Jerusalem’s Municipality to help calm intense rioting in East Jerusalem. Forces plan to operate in…
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Spot Report: Israel tells it like it is
Think on this: “Yahweh will judge his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free. … Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement…
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