Rachel Fraenkel tells UNHRC that kidnapping of her son is ‘every mother’s nightmare’
Rachel Frankel, accompanied by the mothers of the two other teenaged Israeli kidnap victims, appealed for international support for the boys’ safe return.
Scripture Reading for June 28, 2014
Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1, “Chukat” (Decree of …) Haftorah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 – 28 Gospel: John 3:10 – 21, “Ata moreh?” (You are a teacher?…)
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Hamas Leader: We Can Bomb Any City in Israel
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar on Tuesday issued a direct threat against Israel. Al-Zahar, who spoke at a memorial ceremony for terrorists who died in a “work accident”, declared that Hamas has rockets that can hit any city in Israel. He further said that during Operation Pillar of Defense in…
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Israeli mothers try to shake an indifferent world
By BOAZ BISMUTH, ISRAEL HAYOM— As the mothers of the other two kidnapped Israeli teens sat behind her, Rachel Frenkel, the mother of Naftali Frenkel, made a moving plea before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday. After Frenkel’s speech, I saw two Muslim representatives outside, one from Western Sahara and the…
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Truth Report: Romans 9:30-33
Romans 9:30-33 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if…
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Dozens of suspected Palestinian terror tunnels, weapons labs discovered in West Bank
By ABE KATSMAN, BREITBART— The Israeli military has discovered dozens of suspected terror tunnels and weapons laboratories in the Hebron area during Operation Brother’s Keeper, the operation to find three teen boys kidnapped by Hamas, reports Israeli news site Ynet. Members of Israel’s elite engineering unit Yahalom uncovered the tunnels and laboratories while searching for…
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Netanyahu slams ‘disgraceful’ Presbyterian divestment
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the decision of the US Presbyterian Church to divest from three companies that provide supplies to the IDF and residents of Judea and Samaria. Dubbing the recent vote “disgraceful,” Netanyahu told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “most Americans understand that Israel is a…
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Syria Asks UN to Take Action Against Israel
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, on Sunday asked the United Nations to take actions against Israel, claiming it violated the 1974 ceasefire agreement in the Golan Heights. According to Syria’s SANA news agency, Mekdad spoke with the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, who is visiting…
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Spot Report: How God deals with jihadists?
Think on this: ” I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows…
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Messianic Jewish Leaders Oppose Presbyterian Divestment from Israel
By the International Messianic Jewish community Amid continuing efforts to pressure and marginalize the state of Israel through boycotts and economic sanctions, the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, meeting in Detroit, June 14-21, will consider proposals to pressure Israel through financial divestment. Amid reports of growing worldwide anti-Semitism, the church’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network offers “Zionism Unsettled,”…
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Judaism: Parashat Korach and President Truman
By RABBI NACHMAN KAHANA, ARUTZ 7— When Harry Truman replaced F.D. Roosevelt as President of the United States it never dawned upon him that he would order the use of the Atomic Bomb. So what were the horrendous circumstances that forced him to unleash the most lethal weapon ever devised by man until that time?…
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Presbyterians narrowly vote to divest from companies used by Israel
By FOX NEWS— The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday became the most prominent religious group in the United States to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, voting to sell church stock in three companies whose products Israel uses in the occupied territories. The General Assembly voted by a razor-thin margin —…
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Wish I’d said that
“If there had been no Jews, there would be no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible, and no Savior. How much would any of us have without those five things? No wonder Jesus Himself said in John 4:22: Salvation is from the Jews. Every person who has received salvation through faith in Jesus owes…
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Video: Mother of Kidnapped Teen Naftali Frenkel
Racheli Frenkel, the mother of kidnapped yeshiva student Naftali Frenkel, 16, made an impassioned plea for her son on Sunday, as well as for the lives of fellow captives Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Gilad Sha’ar, 16. “They were just boys on their way home from school,” she stated, tearfully, to reporters. Frenkel thanked the outpouring…
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Europe’s and U.S. Complicity in Kidnapping and Violence
By RICHARD KEMP, GATESTONE— The world has undergone gut-churning revulsion this week at the videos of rows of kneeling young Iraqi men callously gunned down by Al Qaida terrorists in Mosul. But time and again, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Hamas has shown itself to be just as capable of such brutal…
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ZOA says US policy on PA ‘nothing less than Kristallnacht’
BY YNET NEWS— The Zionist Organization of America issued a harshly worded condemnation of the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, and slammed the US’ policy as “nothing less than a diplomatic Kristallnacht.” In the statement, the group described Hamas, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said is…
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