By AFP— Pope Francis has warned that Christians in Iraq and Syria face persecution just as Jews have in the past, a prominent American Jewish leader said Thursday. “You have suffered, now it’s our turn,” World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder said the pope told him in a private audience. Francis also repeated his recent…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— The Commander in Chief of the USA has been dithering and having endless fun on the golf course while a Sunni horde of jihadists and savages in the Middle East has been allowed to swell its numbers to 35,000. At the same time, and in direct consequence to the deeply suspicious procrastination…
DetailsRomans 11:13-18 13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will…
DetailsBy ANNE BAYEFSKY, GATESTONE— The UN is not having a conference on the threat that global antisemitism poses to international peace and security. This is lunch-time. The courageous organizer, assisted by the principled representatives of the small state of Palau, is independent of the UN. The facilities are not free. But why couldn’t the UN,…
DetailsBy DROR EYDAR, ISRAEL HAYOM— The Jewish Diaspora is, for the most part, on the eve of a huge migration, similar to what we experienced with the collapse of the Iron Curtain in the early 90s and even at the end of the 19th century. Not just in Eastern Europe, also in the West. In…
DetailsBy DAVID RUBIN, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— We are all influenced by our backgrounds. With the 2008 election of Barack Obama, who has fundamentally attempted to change America’s orientation in the world, thereby impacting Israel in very negative ways, I began to explore my relationship with the USA as one who was born and raised there.…
DetailsBy LELA GILBERT, HADASSAH MAGAZINE— July 21. I arrived in Israel in 2006, eager to explore a land that had always fascinated me, as an American Christian, writer and news commentator. My father had taught me about the “miraculous re-gathering” of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland and I had heard wonderful reports of…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitzavim” (Keep the words …) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 18 Gospel: Matthew 24:29 – 35, “Miyad achareh” (Immediately after … )
Details“The Jews gave us a whole new vocabulary, a whole new Temple of the Spirit, an inner landscape of ideas and feelings that had never been known before…Because of their unique belief—monotheism—the Jews were able to give us the Great Whole a unified universe that makes sense and that, because of its evident superiority as…
DetailsBy EVELYN GORDAN, COMMENTARY— A Yale University chaplain recently resigned “on his own initiative” over a letter to the New York Times blaming Israel and the Jews for anti-Semitism. Clearly, nothing Israel does or doesn’t do justifies attacks on Jewish citizens of other countries, but even if it did, Rev. Bruce Shipman’s reasoning would have…
DetailsHamas, a terrorist organization similar to Isis, rules over the Gaza strip. In the summer of 2014 Hamas provoked a war with Israel. Hamas is Palestinian, but it oppresses the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza and launches rockets into Israel to terrorize Israeli civilians. Hamas calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of…
DetailsThink on this: “Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O Yahweh. May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that you, whose name is Yahweh — that you alone are the most High over all the earth.” (Psalm 83:16-18) Pray on this:…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— This week we sadly witnessed yet again rioting and violence in east Jerusalem including the use by local Arab residents of lethal weapons against Jewish neighborhoods, Jewish motorists, and police and military forces. East Jerusalem’s Arab residents are trying to destroy any semblance of co-existence in Jerusalem, the Capitol of the State…
Details“Peace under a semblance of peace is but a manifold illusion.”—W.B. Yeats
By ISRAEL TODAY— As the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) inches closer to Israel in its sweeping conquest of Iraq and Syria, the real threat is that the extremist movement will gain a large number of followers in the Holy Land long before its current warriors reach the borders of the Jewish state. A recent government…
DetailsREPENTANCE FOR SIN AGAINST ISRAEL: Respond with: Lord forgive us and have mercy on us. Abba YHVH, we confess our sin to you as a nation in regard to our words, actions, and motives concerning Israel. –We have not loved what You love, nor hated what You hate. We have not honored and defended, what…
DetailsBy ARI SOFFER, ARUTZ 7— Leading Republican Senator and Christian supporter of Israel Ted Cruz (R-Tx) was booed off stage at a gala dinner in support of the Middle East’s embattled Christian minority, after voicing support for Israel. Cruz was the keynote speaker at the event, hosted by the recently-founded In Defense of Christians (IDC)…
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