This week’s prayer points

ISSUES IN NEED OF INTERCESSION: 1: TERROR ATTACKS, RIOTS, and WORSENING ODDS AGAINST ISRAEL During this past week, Jerusalem suffered a deadly terror attack, by a member of Hamas (driving his car into a crowd waiting to get on the light rail train); killing a three-month-old baby, and a 22-year-old young woman. Arab riots have…

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Bethlehem Bible College–purveyor of anti-Israel propoganda

By TRICIA MILLER, JPOST— According to its website, Bethlehem Bible College (BBC) is a Christian college founded for the purpose of training leaders to serve local Arab churches and communities. BBC affirms the National Association of Evangelicals’ Statement of Faith and believes the Bible to be the authoritative word of God. But there is another…

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1,000 reinforcements called in to protect Jerusalem

By BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Israeli security officials are deploying an additional 1,000 Israeli Police and Border Patrol forces in Jerusalem due to the recent escalation of violence and terror in the capital. Security forces are expected to work alongside the Jerusalem’s Municipality to help calm intense rioting in East Jerusalem. Forces plan to operate in…

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It’s time to beat the Jew haters

By CAROLINE GLICK— The decision by the most prestigious opera house in America to produce an opera that mainstreams Jew-hatred and anti-Jewish terrorism is a great victory for elitist anti-Semitism. In the world of elite anti-Semitism, Jews are told that truth is but a narrative. Jewish history and rights have no more merit – indeed…

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Evangelical support for Israel? Look to the east

By ROBERT STEARNS— There has been a great deal of press lately regarding the supposed rapid waning of evangelical support for Israel. It seems that at very nearly the same moment in which portions of the global Jewish community in general (and in Israel specifically) have become more fully aware of and connected with evangelical…

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Ya’alon: It’s not about ’67 borders

By IDO BEN PORAT– The conflict with the Arabs will not end even if Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 borders, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday. Ya’alon, who is in the United States, made the comments during a visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he met with wounded American soldiers. “As…

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Video: The Shabbos Project

Excitement is building up for the Shabbos Project event that is taking place worldwide October 24/25. For those of you who have never observed Shabbat, now is the time to start! The Jewish people will be united in observing the Sabbath (Shabbos, or Shabbat) according to Torah law. One People! One Heart! One Shabbat! October…

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Israeli Jews, Christians Call for Action vs. Persecuted Believers in Middle East

By NICOLE SCHIAVI JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— While Christians and other ethnic minorities face brutal persecution and even death across the Middle East at the hands of Islamic terrorists, Israel is the safest country in the region for followers of Jesus. And despite a war that ravaged Israel all summer, a record number of Christian tourists came to…

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Mahmoud Abbas, enemy of Israel

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— For the past decade, ever since Mahmoud Abbas took the reins of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005, the international community has gone out of its way to portray him as a moderate. Ignoring his long record of anti-Israel incitement and Holocaust denial, American presidents, European prime ministers and even various…

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An urgent appeal for the Jews of Ukraine

By Howard Flower, ICEJ Aliyah director. The Jewish Agency has made an official and urgent appeal to help the Jews of Ukraine make aliyah. Winter is fast approaching and many Jewish people are displaced from their home and need special care and help. At the end of September 3,867 Olim had made aliyah from Ukraine…

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Rejoicing in children, rejoicing in life

By DAVID RUBIN, ARUTZ 7— After today’s horrific terrorist attack in Jerusalem, Hamas spokesman Hossam Badran announced on official Hamas television: “This is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and invasion of our land by the Jews…” Such an obscene statement by a sick Islamic extremist, with absolutely no basis in historical…

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Obama the virtuoso manager

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Since he assumed office nearly six years ago, US President Barack Obama has been dogged by allegations of managerial incompetence. Obama, his critics allege, had no managerial experience before he was elected. His lack of such experience, they claim, is reflected in what they see as his incompetent handling of the…

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Sharansky predicts further growth in Ukrainian aliyah

By SAM SOKOL, JPOST— Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky forecasts a 400 percent increase in immigration from Ukraine for the coming year, citing worsening economic conditions and the ongoing civil war in the country’s east as contributing factors. Speaking with The Jerusalem Post by phone from Dnipropetrovsk on Sunday, Sharansky said despite the avowed intent…

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