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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBy JNS— By Nitzi Yakov, Shlomi Diaz, Shlomo Cesana, Yael Barnovsky, and Ilan Gattegno, Israel Hayom/JNS.org— As the days pass following the abduction of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, the boys’ families are refusing to succumb to despair despite the uncertainty surrounding the situation. Hamas terrorists kidnapped Gilad Shaar (16), Eyal Yifrach (19), and Naftali Frenkel…
DetailsThink on this: “Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Senior officials from both the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday suggested that Israel might have fabricated the story that three Jewish youths – Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel – were abducted by Hamas terrorists last week. In remarks cited by Voice of Israel, Farhan Haq,…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it’s their own damned fault. As Honest Reporting documented, everyone from The Guardian to CNN, to Sky News to the Christian Science Monitor…
DetailsFOR THE NAME AND THE PLACE On the 60th anniversary of Yad Vashem Excerpt from DARK STARS, WISE HEARTS: Personal Reflections on the Holocaust in the Modern Times forthcoming book by Inna Rogatchi By Dr INNA ROGATCHI (C) Inna Rogatchi, 2014 – The Law to Remember I do not know anyone who visited Yad Vashem…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND— For over two decades, ever since the signing of the Oslo Accords, Israel has had to endure one atrocity after another at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Enough already! We were told that patience was in order, even as our ostensible peace partners sent young men strapped with explosive vests to blow…
DetailsBy RON JAGER-— For the past four days, we the people of Israel have been holding our breath and praying for the safe release of Eyal Yifrah, 19, from Elad, Gil-Ad Shayer, 16, from Talmon and Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon. Both Frenkel and Shayer study at the “Makor Haim” yeshiva in Kfar Etzion,…
DetailsRomans 9:27-29 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.” It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants,…
DetailsBy EARL COX— Anyone paying the slightest attention is shaking their heads in disbelief over developments between two Middle East neighbors, the Israelis and Palestinians. The circumstances become more worrisome with a third party halfway around the world meddling in their affairs, the United States. Will President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry act…
DetailsBy KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— The Palestinian unity government on Sunday condemned Israel for arresting more than 100 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members in the West Bank in response to the Thursday kidnapping of three Israeli youths. The government also condemned Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip in response to the firing of rockets…
DetailsBy REUTERS— Gunfire and a blast were heard as Israeli troops searching Hebron for three Israeli teenagers abducted by terrorist surrounded a house on Sunday, witnesses said. Witnesses also reported that IDF forces fired a rocket at the house. Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported that three Palestinians were injured in the incident after the IDF…
DetailsBy LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— News of the three kidnapped Israeli teens by terrorists has shaken Israel and Jews around the world to the core. On Saturday, as part of personal efforts to help the missing teens, thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for a mass prayer rally to pray…
DetailsBy INNA ROGATCHI, ROGATCHI FOUNDATION— As Israel and the Jewish world in the Diaspora are holding their breath and carrying their prayers for three teenagers kidnapped by Hamas near Hebron a few days ago, the coverage of the developing the story by two scions of the world media, CNN and BBC has been marked by…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32 “Korach” (Korah …) Haftorah: I Samuel 11:14 – 12:22 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 8:1 – 4 “Ish mezorah” (Man with leprosy …)
DetailsBy DAVID RUBIN, ARUTZ7— After the resounding defeat of U.S. Republican Eric Cantor after seven terms in Congress, there are now no remaining Jewish Republicans in Congress. Is that a problem for the GOP? More importantly, is it a problem for Israel? We can certainly expect the Democrats to pounce on this vacuum to score…
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