Scripture Reading for December 7, 2013
Torah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 18 New Testament: Ephesians 2:1 – 10 Gospel: Luke 6:9 – 16, “Amar lehem Yeshuah” (Jesus said to them …)
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Spot Report: Does the Future of the Jews require a Temple?
Think on this: “Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for the Day of the LORD will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he…
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Wish I’d said that
“Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem.”-–Talmud: Kiddushin 49b
Video: Thanksgivukkah
This is the story of something so tremendously tremendous that it won’t happen again for another 79,000 years.
The goal of Obama’s foreign policy
By CAROLINE GLICK— It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made it clear that they were committed to signing a deal with Iran as quickly as possible. And it…
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Thanksgivukkah: When Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Collide
By ARIEL RUDOLPH, ISRAEL TODAY— As most of us know, Hanukkah commemorates the miracle of the oil. Once the Maccabees restored the Temple to Jewish control, the Temple oil burned for eight days when there was only enough oil to burn for one. One of the traditions of Hanukkah is to eat foods cooked in…
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Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2013
By AMBASSADOR (RET.) YORAM ETTINGER— 1. For the first time – and never again – the first day of Chanukah will be celebrated on Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November, November 28, 2013. Since the Jewish calendar is based on a 19 year cycle (when a “leap month” is added – seven times – to…
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The fight is not over
By DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— A colleague who specializes in modern history remarked to me on Sunday that the deal signed with Iran is not comparable to the disgrace signed in Munich in 1938. In this historian’s eyes, the appropriate comparison is the West’s silence in the face of Hitler’s invasion of the Rhineland in…
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Netanyahu: Nuclear deal with Iran a ‘historic mistake’
By ISRAEL HAYOM— “What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it is a historic mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday morning about the nuclear deal reached hours earlier between world powers and Iran. “Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime…
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A pro-terror rally on a Palestinian campus
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— They weren’t wearing swastika armbands or chanting “Sieg Heil!” during the Islamic Jihad rally this month on the campus of Al-Quds University. They didn’t need to. Everything about the event reeked of fascism and anti-Semitic bloodlust. Demonstrators at the Palestinian school paraded in paramilitary gear, with massed black flags, mock…
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A Bad and Morally Indefensible Deal
By JACK DAVID, NATIONAL REVIEW.COM — The announcement that the P-5+1 (the five U.N. Security Council members plus Germany) reached a nuclear deal with Iran has just been made. A few details of the deal have been announced and there likely will be others. But what has been reported so far is sufficient to conclude,…
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Israeli Leaders Decry Geneva Accord
By ISABEL KERSHNER, NEW YORK TIMES — JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders denounced the agreement reached Sunday in Geneva, saying they were not bound by it and reiterating the principle that Israel would be ready to defend itself without assistance against any threat. After weeks of intense lobbying against any deal between the world powers and…
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Kerry: Persona non grata
By GUY BECHOR, YNET — After betraying Israel, can Kerry be trusted as ‘loyal’ mediator in peace talks with Palestinians? The United States’ status in the Middle East hasn’t reached such a low in many years, so low that Secretary of State John Kerry has actually become a persona non grata in most of the…
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Video: Pro-Israel festival in New Orleans this Spring
Declare Your Freedom is back and better than ever! This year, we’re pulling out all the stops and holding a spring festival filled with music, speakers, food, and an all out celebration of Israeli culture!
Scripture Reading for November 30, 2013
Torah: Genesis 41:1 – 44:17, “Miketz” (at the end of the day…) Haftorah: I Kings 3:15 – 4:1 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 13 Matthew 3:1 – 16, “Shuvu betshuvah” (REPENT!… )
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‘Israelis don’t believe in two-state solution’
By MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar, of Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies), dismissed calls for the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state in Judea and Samaria, saying that the number of Israelis who still believe in the “Two-State Solution” can “fit in two telephone booths”. “And…
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A vastly changed Middle East
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— A week and a half ago, Syria’s Kurds announced they are setting up an autonomous region in northeastern Syria. The announcement came after the Kurds wrested control over a chain of towns from al Qaida in the ever metastasizing Syrian civil war. The Kurds’ announcement enraged their nominal Sunni allies —…
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