Scripture Reading for May 10, 2014
Torah:Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2. “Behar” (on the mountain…) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: Hebrews 13:15 -16 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Ruach Yahweh alie” (The Spirit of Yahweh is upon me…)
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PA to transfer security forces to Gaza
By YNET— Some 3,000 Palestinian Authority police officers will join the Gaza government’s security forces, Palestinian media reported Sunday, almost seven years after Hamas violently outsed Fatah men from Gaza in what has become to be known as the Battle of Gaza. Abd al-Salam Siyam, the secretary-general of the Gazan cabinet, said the officers were…
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Netanyahu pays tribute to fallen soldiers
By JPOST— Israel began paying tribute to its 23,169 casualties of war and terrorism on Sunday as events marking Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars and Victims of Terrorism commenced at the Yad Labanim memorial site in Jerusalem. The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Supreme Court…
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Israel bows its head in remembrance
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Israel will mark Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism over the next 24 hours, with a series of services that are scheduled to begin on Sunday afternoon. The first state ceremony honoring Israel’s 23,169 fallen soldiers is scheduled to be held at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem’s…
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Fatah official said liberated land would be soaked in blood
By ITAMAR MARCUS AND NAN JACQUES ZILBERDIK, PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH— Even at the height of the peace negotiations with Israel, in December 2013, Fatah official Tawfiq Tirawi said that Palestinians were not committed to non-violence. Rather, he said that negotiations are just one option, and do not preclude use of the “rifle,” which the Palestinians…
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Israel prepares to mourn 23,169 casualties of war and terrorism
By YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST— Israel is set to pay tribute to 23,169 casualties of war and terrorism who have fallen since 1860. On Sunday evening, events marking the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism will be held around the country. The Defense Ministry said 57 newly fallen had…
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Spot Report: Stop financing terrorists
Think on this: “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For…
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Wish I’d said that
“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we…
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Israel greets 16,884 new immigrants in 2013
By SAM SOKOL, JPOST— Immigration to Israel increased by 2 percent in 2013, with over 16,000 olim arriving, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday. Of the 16,884 immigrants who arrived last year, 43% came from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia and Ukraine, 17% came from France, 13% from the United States and…
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Scripture Reading for May 3, 2014
Torah: Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23, “Emor” (Say …) Haftorah:Ezekiel 44: 15 – 31 New Testament: I Peter 2:4 – 10 Gospel: John 18:33 – 37, “Shaani Melek” (I am a King … )
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The Truth Report, Romans 9:2
Dr. Jim Hutchens, President of The Jerusalem Connection, speaks out against the rise of Palestinian Replacement Theology among modern evangelicals. Hutchens calls out the false teaching as a blasphemous message from Satan, and minces no words in his rebuke of some of Replacement Theology’s most ardent Christian spokespeople. Romans 9:2 “I have great sorrow and…
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John Kerry’s Jewish best friends
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand. John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid”…
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Boycott the Bigots – Not Israel
By EARL COX, JPOST — It was a sting, a slap in the face! A leading Israeli scholar labeled it grave and akin to family betrayal. It is saddening that such a thing would occur in the United States. The Palestinian BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions), after a 10-year history with some European success,…
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Palestinian Girl Confronts Anti-Israel Lies
By ISRAEL TODAY— Christy Anastas, a young Palestinian Christian woman from Bethlehem, has bravely released a compilation video in which she, in several different venues, confronts the joint lies that Israel is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians and for the flight of fellow Christians from the city of Jesus’ birth. The Anastas family…
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Video: Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day
In 1945 renown movie director, Alfred Hitchcock was asked to produce a film that would document the horrors of the Holocaust. That movie proved so potent, so damning that the allies suppressed the film’s release. According to the Independent, Hitchcock’s documentary on the Holocaust was mothballed to the Imperial War Museum, much like the fictional…
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Amid Holocaust remembrance, antisemitism adapts and thrives
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— IT WASN’T a failure of Holocaust remembrance that explains why Frazier Glenn Miller opened fire outside two Jewish community facilities in Overland Park, Kan., murdering three people on the day before Passover. Miller, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon, knows all about the Holocaust — enough, at any…
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The lessons of survival
By ROCHEL SYLVETSKY, ARUTZ 7— “I survived and that was a miracle”, says the late Simon Weisenthal, summing up his Holocaust experiences in a recently released documentary “The Lessons of Survival”, filmed by Dr. Inna Rogatchi. The riveting film is based on her never-before publicized conversations with the larger-than-life Nazi hunter as well as her…
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