Scripture Reading for January 24, 2015
Torah: Exodus 10:1 – 13:16, “Bo” (Enter …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13 – 28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20 – 34 Gospel: Luke 22:7 – 32, “Ke’she’hagia hayom” (then came the day …)
DetailsTorah: Exodus 10:1 – 13:16, “Bo” (Enter …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13 – 28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20 – 34 Gospel: Luke 22:7 – 32, “Ke’she’hagia hayom” (then came the day …)
By BOAZ BISMUTH, Israel Hayom— Washington — or to be more precise, the White House — is U.S. President Barack Obama’s home court. Congress, however, has become a hostile arena for Obama since the midterm elections in November. The Republican majority in both chambers there holds a different outlook from the president on a whole…
By DAVID ROSENBERG, HAARETZ– How quickly the wheel turns. Two weeks ago Paris was the scene of two lethal terror attacks that left 17 people dead. This week 13 people were stabbed on a Tel Aviv bus. Meanwhile, perched on Israel’s northern border, Iran and Hezbollah are vowing to retaliate for an Israeli attack on…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Iran has apparently produced an intercontinental ballistic missile whose range far exceeds the distance between Iran and Israel, and between Iran and Europe. On Wednesday night, Channel 2 showed satellite imagery taken by Israel’s Eros-B satellite that was launched last April. The imagery showed new missile-related sites that Iran recently constructed…
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Have we in the West lost our way? Do we even know anymore who we are as Americans? Do we still hold ourselves as solid allies of Israel–the only true democracy in the Middle East? Do we not understand that Muslims do not embrace our Western values no matter how…
Philippians 2: 9-11 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus is Yahweh, to the glory of God the…
Think on this: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them. I will never stop doing good to them. I will inspire them to fear me so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will most assuredly plant them in this land with all my…
By DAVID PARSONS and HOWARD FLOWER— With an estimated 550,000 members, France currently has Europe’s largest Jewish community and ranks third in the world behind Israel and the United States. The perception that most are native, well-off French Jews of Ashkenazi descent is wrong, as much of that community was wiped out or fled during…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— January 16 is the nine-year anniversary of the beginning of the Ilan Halimi disaster. On January 16, 2006, Sorour Arbabzadeh, the seductress from the Muslim anti-Jewish kidnapping gang led by Youssouf Fofana, entered the cellphone store where Halimi worked and set the honey trap. Four days later, Halimi met Arbabzadeh for…
By STAN GOODENOUGH— I feel to write a brief but direct letter in the face of resistance that will almost certainly come from some quarters to the ‘Australia Initiative’ that has now gone out to raise up Christians – beginning in Australia and going around the world, to stand strongly and unequivocally with Israel’s right…
By MOSHE COHEN, ARUTZ7— The US Senate is taking another stab at changing the White House’s policy of keeping the American Embassy to Israel out of Jerusalem. On Tuesday, US Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Dean Heller (R-NV) proposed a law that would remove the president’s authority to invoke national security as a reason to…
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 …)
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…