Scripture Reading for January 17, 2015
Torah: Exodus 6:2 – 9:35, “Va’era” (and I appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 – 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 – 33 Gospel: John 4:19 – 26, “Ani ro’ah” (I see …)
DetailsTorah: Exodus 6:2 – 9:35, “Va’era” (and I appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 – 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 – 33 Gospel: John 4:19 – 26, “Ani ro’ah” (I see …)
fBy YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, RUTH BENDER and JASON CHOW, WSJ— (Donate Today to help French Jews make Aliyah!) Every Friday, Johanna Bettach, a pregnant mother of two, stocks up on weekend supplies at the Hyper Cacher supermarket. Last week, just before she was getting ready to shop, an Islamist militant gunned down four Jewish customers at…
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— Even before last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the French prime minister was concerned about the continued viability of Jewish life in France. In an interview with The Atlantic prior to the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket massacres, Manuel Valls made a grim prediction: “If 100,000 Jews leave, France will…
By MATTHEW MCCABE, GND NEWS— Since its creation in 1947, there has been no greater friend of Israel on the international stage than the United States of America. When the Jewish state was founded, it was supplied with arms, weapons, and military supplies for the fledgling country. Throughout the 20th century, America stood beside its…
Numbers 6: 22-27 22 The Lord said to Moses, 23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: 24 “‘“The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn his face…
By VICTOR SHARPE— There is an old saying that, “promises, like pie crusts, are meant to be broken.” This may be somewhat cynical but when it refers to the false promises and outright lies made to Israel and the world by the Muslim Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, it is utterly apt. Never in the…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— For the past few days, the world’s attention has been focused on Paris, where a band of Islamic terrorists went on a rampage, attacking the offices of a satirical magazine and a kosher market and brutally snuffing out the lives of 17 innocent people. Millions of people took to the streets…
By RON JAGER— “Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from…
“Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from which the world…
Think on this: “There has no test or temptation taken you but such is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tested or tempted beyond what you are able, but will with the test or temptation provide a way of escape, that you may be able to bear…
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— In the wake of two terror attacks that claimed the lives of 17 people, France is gearing up for a giant unity rally on Sunday with world leaders expected to attend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli governmental leaders will be in attendance. On Friday, shortly before…
By RAPHAEL AHREN— On the day after Islamist terrorists massacred 12 people in the heart of Paris, committing what some called France’s 9/11, Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky resisted the temptation to use the tragedy to push for upped immigration to Israel from an increasingly dangerous France. “We’re not building our aliyah strategy on tragic…
By BEN COHEN, ALGEMEINER— The anti-Semitism at the heart of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel was again laid bare yesterday, as prominent activists from the campaign took to social media to advance the conspiracy theory that yesterday’s terrorist attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was carried out by the Mossad.…
By GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ7— The Presbyterian Church USA is considering banning the word “Israel” from its prayers. That anti-Semitic resolution was meant to “distinguish between the biblical terms that refer to the ancient land of Israel and the modern political State of Israel”. It has happened.before. In his war against the Jews, Adolf Hitler instructed…
By JOHN R. BOLTON, NY POST— The Palestinian Authority is aggressively seeking to have itself declared a “state” by joining treaties and international organizations, thereby pressuring Israel and the United States to accept outcomes they long ago rejected. In a fantasy that only seems sensible after years of incubating at the United Nations, the Palestinians…
By ISRAEL TODAY— In the aftermath of the horrific massacre at the headquarters of a satirical magazine in Paris, veteran CNN news anchor and international correspondent tried to promote the notion that the Muslim perpetrators of this and all such atrocities are extremists, and therefore unrepresentative of mainstream Muslim sentiments or Islamic teachings. “The cartoons…
Torah: Exodus 1:1 – 6:1, “Shemot” (Names … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22- 23 New Testament: Acts 7:17 – 35 Gospel: John 5:41 – 47, “Ain ani loke’ach” (I do not receive … )