Scripture Reading for September 6, 2014
Torah: Deuteronomy 21:10 – 25:19, “Ki Teizei” (When you go out …) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 – 10 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:1 – 5 Gospel: Matthew 5:27 – 30, “Shematim” (You have heard … )
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Spot Report: Is our incompetent government of God?
Think on this: “The authorities that exist have been established by God — there is no authority except that which God has established.” … “Jesus said, ‘All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.’”… “Yahweh has established His throne in heaven and His kingdom rules over all.” (Romans 13:2; Matthew 28:18; Psalm…
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Fighting terror for dummies
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— War has been known to bring out the best and worst in man. There are moments of indelible courage, such as when a young Givati Brigade soldier dashed into a Hamas tunnel in Gaza in a vain attempt to save Lt. Hadar Goldin earlier this month. And there are also occasions…
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Scripture Reading for August 30, 2014
Torah: Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9, “Shofteem” (Judges …) Haftorah: Isaiah 51:12 – 52:12 New Testament: Acts 3:22 – 23 Gospel: John 1:19 – 27, “Aduto Yochanan” (The witness of John …)
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Captured Hamas Militants Spill the Beans on Gaza War Crimes
BY ISRAEL TODAY— During the summer’s Gaza war, hundreds of Hamas militants surrendered to or were otherwise captured by Israeli forces. In the course of interrogation, many of these prisoners were candid regarding the unlawful tactics of their leaders. A statement released by the Shin Bet, or Israel Security Agency (the local equivalent of the…
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Is the Gaza War Really Over?
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— The Egypt-brokered cease-fire may achieve some calm for Israelis and Palestinians in the foreseeable future, particularly in the aftermath of the severe blow Hamas and Islamic Jihad suffered as a result of Israel’s massive military operation. Indeed, Hamas and its allies will now be busy rebuilding the damage in the…
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Video: Iron Dome intercepts 15 rockets at once
By BIN— What some call one of the greatest technological inventions, others call watching the hand of God in action. The Iron Dome missile defense system is Israel’s greatest weapon at countering Hamas’s rocket attacks on Israel and protecting those living in the Holy Land. Iron Dome is able to calculate the trajectory of an…
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Embracing the obvious
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— It isn’t hard to understand the truth about Israel and Hamas. Four-year-old Daniel Tragerman was murdered on Friday afternoon in his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz by Hamas terrorists. They shot him with a mortar launched from a school in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. At the time of the launch, the school…
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Truth Report: “God remains faithful in spite of Israel’s unfaithfulness”
Romans 11:7-10 7 What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, 8 as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.” 9…
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Wish I’d said that
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli
Confronting Evil
By RABBI BENJAMIN BLECH, AISH.COM— In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Romain Gary, in his powerful masterpiece The Dance of Genghis Khan, summed up civilization this way: “The ancient Simbas, a primitive tribe of cruel cannibals boiled their victims and then consumed them. The modern day Germans, heirs to thousands of years of culture and…
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Leading Rabbis Call Day of Prayer and Fasting Over Gaza
By ISRAEL TODAY— A group of leading Israeli rabbis declared Monday a day of prayer and fasting, a “mini Yom Kippur,” in their words, over the degenerating security situation in the country. The initiative was spearheaded by Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman (pictured), the top non-hassidic orthodox rabbi in the country, who called for 24 hours…
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The continuing blunder of retreat
By VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— In 2006, when I first published Volume One of my trilogy, Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state, I wrote the following in the foreword: “The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon from 2004 onwards is increasingly criticized, especially over what became known as the “disengagement plan,” a euphemism…
DetailsSpot Report: Calling Islamic Terrorism by its name
Think on this: “The face of Yahweh is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.” (Psalms 38:16) Pray on this: Heavenly Father, we pray that you will open the eyes of our world leaders so that they will truly understand the evil face of Islam and not be afraid to confront…
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Netanyahu: Gaza op will continue until we complete our mission
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Sunday that the operation in Gaza was far from over, telling his cabinet that “Operation Protective Edge will continue until we complete our mission, even after the start of the school year.” The current school year is scheduled to begin on Sept. 1, in just over…
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Northern Israel under rocketfire from Syria and Lebanon
By LEA SPEYER, BIN— Rockets fired from Syria slammed into the Golan Heights early Sunday morning following rocket fire from Lebanon the night before. “At least five rockets fired from Syria hit different locations across the Golan Heights,” the IDF confirmed in a statement. The strikes, which occurred around 1:30 am Sunday morning, caused no…
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This is no time to avert our gaze
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— ISIS scarcely posted its video showing the grisly beheading of American journalist James Foley than the rush to stifle it began. “Don’t watch the video. Don’t share it. That’s not how life should be,” entreated Foley’s sister Kelly in a message on Twitter that was heavily retweeted. Thousands of social…
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Video: Statement by Netanyahu
Netanyahu talks about the savagery of ISIS and Hamas! Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. They are the enemies!