Scripture Reading for January 3, 2015
Torah: Genesis 47:28 – 50:26, “Vayechi” (and he lived …) Haftorah: I Kins 2:1 – 12 New Testament: I Peter 1:3 – 9 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Lo choshev” (Do not think …)
DetailsTorah: Genesis 47:28 – 50:26, “Vayechi” (and he lived …) Haftorah: I Kins 2:1 – 12 New Testament: I Peter 1:3 – 9 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Lo choshev” (Do not think …)
DetailsBy RICHARD MATHER, ARUTZ 7— In recent decades, the quest to rescue Jesus’ Jewish identity has yielded much fruit. Geza Vermes, Robert Eisenman, E.P Sanders, James Tabor, R. T. Herford, George Foot Moor and Hyam Maccoby are among those who have highlighted Jesus’ Jewish identity and origins. Combined with the shared interest in the Dead…
DetailsBy GERALD MCDERMOTT, ROANOKE TIMES– Once again, Israel is at the top of the news. Jeffrey Goldberg reports in the Atlantic that the Obama administration is “red-hot” over Israel’s recent announcements of new building in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. This kerfuffle comes on top of Israeli denunciations of Irish and British statements recognizing…
DetailsBy LARRY AND DEDE. LEV PROJECT— Make a Special Donation Today to The Lev Project. Shalom! We are Larry and Dede Miller with The Lev Project. After 12 years of living and volunteering in Hungary, and a 5-month experience in Israel working with holocaust survivors, The Lev Project was born. (Lev in Hebrew means, “heart”)…
Details“The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” –George Washington (1779)
Acts 3: 21-23 21 Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. 22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells…
DetailsThink on this: “On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.” Pray on this: Thank you Father that you never abrogate your covenant promises to Israel and to believers. No matter how many promises…
DetailsBy JONATHAN FELDSTEIN, BIN— The recent wave of terrorist incidents that has Israelis looking over their shoulders—both literally and figuratively—overlapping with the holiday season, got me thinking: What if Jesus were born today? As 2014 ends, Israelis have been plagued with war, increased terrorism, and an ongoing incitement of violence and worse. Jesus was a…
DetailsBy RIYADH MOHAMMED— The war against ISIS is taking a dangerous, perhaps inevitable turn. The terror organization has been keen to expand to southern Syria and the Syrian capital of Damascus. Now it says it has recruited three Syrian rebel groups operating in the south of the country in an area bordering the Israeli occupied…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 28 New Testament: Ephesians 2:11 – 22 Gospel: Hebrews 10:5 – 10, “Behechaneso” ( when He came …)
DetailsPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wishes a merry Christmas to Israel’s Christian citizens and to Christians throughout the world!
Mr. President, I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I stand tall before you knowing that truth and morality are on my side. And yet, I stand here knowing that today in this Assembly, truth will be turned on its head and morality cast…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— Islamic terrorist organizations received an unanticipated victory after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A short time thereafter, the Russian army unilaterally withdrew from Afghanistan, resulting in their humiliating defeat, and this war became the first “Jihad” war in modern history that attracted Muslims, mainly Sunnis, from all over the Arab world…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This past Friday, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket into southern Israel without any provocation, setting off air-raid sirens and rekindling fears of a return to this past summer’s hostilities. Indeed, although barely four months have passed since the end of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas is said to be actively…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— The November 24, 2014 deadline has come and gone. As in the once very popular game of Monopoly, Iran drew another ‘get out of jail free’ card and the right to ‘return to Go’ – to go ahead with seven more months of continuing nuclear advancement. That’s what US Secretary…
Details“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.”– Edmund Burke