Scripture Reading for August 24, 2013
Torah: Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8, “Ki Tavo” (When you go in …) Haftorah: Isaiah 60:1 – 22 New Testament: Revelation 21:10 – 27 Gospel: Matthew 24:24 – 31, “Ki Yakumu Meshiki” ( For false Messiahs …)
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Gentiles in Isaiah 11:10-12
10 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples— of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria,…
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The left and the Jews
By VLADIMIR TISMANEANU, FRONTPAGEMAG— Almost sixty-one years ago, in November 1952, in Prague, the former secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, a diehard, fanatic Stalinist, Rudolf Slansky, and 13 other prominent communists, mostly Jewish, were sentenced to death for alleged treason and Zionist conspiracy. At the same time, Stalin’s terminal paranoia led to the…
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Palestinian lecturer denies Temple ever existed
During the negotiations at Camp David in 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat famously denied that a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem ever existed, much to President Bill Clinton’s amazement. Temple Denial has since metastasized in Palestinian popular belief. Under Arafat’s leadership, Palestinian historians were forbidden to refer to a historical Jewish Temple. Such historical reconstruction is…
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Video: A prophecy concerning Egypt
Think on This: “In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. Yahweh Almighty will bless…
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Netanyahu encourages Israeli Arab Christians to join IDF
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially put his weight behind growing efforts to encourage young Israeli Arab Christians to join the Israeli army and fully integrate with Israeli society. The government has tried to initiate such programs in the past, only to create rifts in the Christian community and more…
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Iran’s next nuke-talk ploy
By AMIR TAHERI, NEW YORK POST— Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has declared the lifting of sanctions on the country as his top priority — even as he also insists that he won’t budge an inch from the Islamic Republic’s positions on key issues, including the controversial nuclear program “We call on everyone to approach…
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When synagogues burned in the Land of Israel
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This week marks the eighth anniversary on the Hebrew calendar of one of the darkest chapters in Israel’s recent past. It was on the 8th of Elul, 5765, (September 12, 2005), that Israel stood by and watched as Palestinian mobs ransacked synagogues abandoned by the Jewish state after the withdrawal from…
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Israel approves 900 additional homes in East Jerusalem
By ADIV STERMAN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Two days before the scheduled resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians, a diplomatic source said Monday that Israel secretly authorized construction of 900 new housing units in East Jerusalem. The Housing Ministry later confirmed that additional permits for housing construction had indeed been issued. The new units will…
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Paying the ultimate price, again
By YOSSI TZUR, ISRAEL HAYOM— Today (Monday) we bereaved families will once again hold a “ceremony” at the Supreme Court. Every few years, under one pretext or another, the government decides to release murderous terrorists. Perhaps in exchange for a captive soldier, perhaps to recover soldiers’ bodies, or merely as a precondition for talks. Talks,…
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Destruction of Israel guaranteed, ayatollah says
By REZA KAHLILI, WND— Iran’s supreme leader promises in a newly released audiotape the destruction of Israel and Palestinians’ return to that land. Fars News Agency, an outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards, last week posted an audiotape of excerpts of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s speeches to Palestinian officials and others with a title “Palestine will…
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When failure carries no cost
By CAROLINE GLICK– This week, after a three-and-a-half-year delay, US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was finally placed on trial for massacring 13 and wounding 32 at Ft. Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009. Hasan was a self-identified jihadist. His paper and electronic trail provided mountains of evidence that he committed the massacre to advance…
DetailsScripture Reading for August 17, 2013
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19, “Ki teitzel” (When you go out …) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 – 10 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:1 – 5 Gospel: Matthew 5:27 – 30, “Shematah” (You have heard …)
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Rethinking Camp David
By JPOST— If Egyptian sources are to be believed, it was an Israeli drone that killed four terrorists belonging to the al-Qaida-affiliated Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis organization on Friday as they prepared to fire rockets at Israel from northern Sinai. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who neither confirmed nor denied that the IAF was responsible for the…
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Wish I’d said that
“How should I like to visit Jerusalem some time.”-–Abraham Lincoln, talking to his wife
Spot Report: Anti-Israel Jews
Think on this: “Come they say, ‘Let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.’ With one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against you.”… “Cover their faces with shame that men may seek your name O Yahweh. May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may…
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Sacrifices of peace
By SULTAN KNISH— In one of the most famous events in the Bible, G-d commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only son. So Abraham took his son Isaac, bound him on an altar and prepared to bring him up as a burnt offering. And then the voice of the angel called to him and told him…
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