Scripture Reading for June 20, 2015
Torah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32. “Korach” (Korah … ) Haftorah: I Samuel 11:14 – 12:22 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 22:15 – 22, “Keesar” (Caesar … )
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In Palestine, Islamic State will replace both Fatah and Hamas
By ABRAHAM MILLER, JPOST— Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, now serving the eleventh year of his four-year term, should pause and consider that Israel is no longer his biggest problem. Even Hamas is no longer his biggest problem. Abbas’ Fatah organization grew out of secular ideologies. Its largest threat now comes from the growing…
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The truth about ‘oppressed’ Palestinians
By WND— The Middle East essentially is one big battlefield over Israel’s right to exist, and it long ago spread onto American college campuses as the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement gained strength. But human-rights activist, documentary filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author Joel Richardson charges many people have fallen victim to a false…
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Stephen Curry’s NBA win thanks to “grace and favor” of God
By ABRA FORMAN, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Stephen Curry, who Tuesday helped lead his team the Golden State Warriors to their first NBA Finals win in 40 years, has always felt a strong connection to the Bible and the Hebrew language through his Christian faith. “My parents had us in church every Sunday and every Wednesday…I’m…
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Truth Report: “Is Jesus or Yahweh our Creator?”
Colossians 1: 15-17 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all…
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Oren: Obama intentionally abandoned core principles of Israel’s alliance with America
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— In polite diplomatic circles, former ambassador to the US Michael Oren is the Israeli envoy to Washington to love; current envoy Ron Dermer the one to hate. Oren the diplomatic diplomat open to everyone; Dermer nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “ambassador to the Republican Party.” Oren the disciplined golden…
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The Two-State Solution is What Causes BDS
By MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— Everyone is coming up with different theories and cures for the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, and everyone ignores the simple truth staring them in the face: The so-called “Two-State Solution” is the sole cause of the BDS movement. Until the Israeli government exposes the “Two-State Solution” as a charade…
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Obama the Jew
By JOSH GELERNTER, NATIONAL REVIEW— Last week, President Obama said that he is “the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat” in the Oval Office. Which means, he said, that when people say he’s “anti-Israel,” “it hurts.” Since taking office, Mr. Obama has said many noxious things. Mostly overlooked was something he said…
DetailsNetanyahu on BDS: Attacks on Jews always preceded by slander of Jew
By AFP, YNET— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted Monday at a parallel between calls for a boycott of Israel and the actions of the Nazis against the Jews during the Holocaust. During a meeting with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Grzegorz Schetyna, Netanyahu alluded to the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Poland, saying: “Attacks…
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Spot Report: “Jerusalem belongs to the Jews”
Think on this: “I have chosen Jerusalem for my to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.”… “Jerusalem, the city Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name.”…”At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of Yahweh, and all nations will…
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Without the Jews, there is no Jerusalem
By: DROR EYDAR, Israel Hayom— The world’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish capital doesn’t hurt the Jews — a child knows who his mother is even if others don’t acknowledge it — it hurts the world itself, in its battle against Islam’s political and spiritual defiance. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down…
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Anti-Israel Activists to Try Divestment Again at Episcopal General Convention
By: JEFFERY WALTON, Juicy Ecumenism— Encouraged by a recent victory in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), anti-Israel activists are seeking to build support for a divestment campaign in the U.S.-based Episcopal Church. Deputies to the 78th Episcopal General Convention meeting June 25-July 3 in Salt Lake City, Utah will consider three separate resolutions on Israel and…
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Tell Obama: Jerusalem IS in Israel, and it’s our Capital!
The latest United States ruling states that only US President Obama can determine if Jerusalem is actually “in Israel”. That’s right – all US citizens that were born in Jerusalem cannot have Israel listed as their country of birth on their US passports. That includes the ‘undisputed’ parts of the city, areas Israel controlled since…
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The case for Israel is rooted in more than security
By: JEFF JACOBY, Boston Globe— NOSES WENT OUT of joint and knickers got in a twist when Israel’s new deputy foreign minister delivered her inaugural speech to the Jewish state’s diplomatic corps. “We need to get back to the basic truth of our right to this land,” said Tzipi Hotovely, who is running the foreign…
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‘ALLY’: MICHAEL OREN’S MEMOIR TO EXPOSE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S ABUSE OF ISRAEL
By: Joel Pollack, Breitbart— Former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren is set to release a new memoir June 23: Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide. The book tells the story of Oren’s four years (2009-13) as Israel’s representative in Washington–and reveals just how hostile the Obama administration is towards Israel. Though he argues Obama is…
DetailsBDS: Turning America against Israel
By: RICHARD BAEHR, Israel Hayom— This past weekend, more than 50 leaders of Jewish organizations and pro-Israel groups from several countries met to plan a more systematic response to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. Many journalists found the most interesting aspect of the meeting the fact that Sheldon Adelson, a supporter of Republicans,…
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Born in Jerusalem? Where’s That?
By: David Rubin June, Breaking Israel News— By a 6-3 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated a law of Congress from 2002 that would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel on passports as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans, instead listing only “Jerusalem.” The court ruled that Congress…
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