Havenu Shalom Aleichem sung by the Effi Netzer Singers from the album, Israel Celebrates 60 Years of Independence. אנחנו מביאים שלום אליך Havenu Shalom Aleichem is a traditional Jewish song. The title lyrics means “we bring you peace”.
DetailsBy BARRY RUBIN, PJ MEDIA— While the State of the Union message was overwhelmingly domestically oriented, the foreign policy sections were most interesting. I’ll review them here. The president began in the same neo-patriotic mode used in the second inaugural address, with a special emphasis on thanking U.S. troops. He used the imagery of the…
DetailsBy DANIEL MCCABE “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1 John 4:8 April 2005 brought a shower of blessing to our home, wrapped in a light blue blanket and named Baby Zach. We had looked forward to this day all our lives and even pictured the day in…
DetailsBy STEVE ELWART, K-HOUSE — Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Ratzinger) announced Monday that he will officially resign on February 28 of this year. When he does so, he will be the first pope to voluntarily leave the post since Pope Gregory XII in 1415. Speculations about possible cover-ups have already started, but Ratzinger has…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST Even though Israel’s new coalition government has yet to be formed, international pressure is already starting to mount on the Jewish state to make concessions to the Palestinians. At a press conference last week with US Vice President Joe Biden, French President Francois Hollande went out of his way to stress…
DetailsBy FRANK GAFFNEY, JWREVIEW— Last week, 25 Republican senators wrote a letter to a former member of their caucus and the man President Obama wants to lead the Defense Department, demanding full disclosure of his financial dealings. To date, Sen. Chuck Hagel has demonstrated afresh his contempt for the legislature by declining to do so.…
DetailsBy TAYLOR DINERMAN, GATESTONE— Before the North Koreans successfully launched a (non-functioning) satellite into orbit on December 12, 2012 there were reports, notably by space expert and NBC News consultant, James Oberg, that Iranian missile experts had been spotted in North Korea. If true, this would be perfectly consistent with the longstanding and close relationship…
DetailsThink on this: “If I forget you , O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.”…”Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion for…
Details“It is a tragedy in which Jesus participates, crucified again in the person of His people at the hand of many baptized in His name. The sin of anti-Semitism contains many sins, but in the end it is a denial of Christian faith, a failure of Christian hope, and a malady of Christian love. And…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli business newspaper Globes recently ran a feature story on the fast dwindling number of Christians living in Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth in northern Israel. The article notes that while the city once had a strong Christian majority, today a mere one-third of residents are Christians. In reality, Nazareth today…
DetailsBy Rochel Sylvetsky & Gil Ronen, ARUTZ 7— One of the goals of U.S. President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel is to deliver a message to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not to carry out any “military surprises” against Iran while the U.S. in engaged in negotiations with it. Voice of Israel public radio, which…
DetailsBy ROBERT JOHNSON, BUSINESSINSIDER-— In the first week of December 2012, Iran announced the capture of a U.S. Navy Scan Eagle drone and plans to learn its secrets. Having been off the coast of Iran last fall and seen the number of Scan Eagles surveilling the region it always seemed reasonable to me that Iran…
Detailsby RON JAGER— The Ides of March was a date on the Roman calendar corresponding with our date of March 15. It was a fateful date, the chosen day for the assassination of Julius Caesar. Before Caesar went to the theater of Pompey to attend the Senate meeting, he had been given advice not to…
DetailsBy ALAN DERSHOWITZ, FRONTPAGEMAG— Whenever I speak in support of Israel or in criticism of its enemies, the dogs of defamation are unleashed against me. The attacks, all from the hard left, seemed coordinated, focusing on common ad hominem themes. They accuse me of being a plagiarist, a supporter of torture, a right wing Zio-fascist,…
DetailsBy ITAMAR MARCUS, JPOST— It is hard to imagine a more flawed analysis of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks than the recent report of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, led by Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University and Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University. The report’s inaccuracies start with its methodology of systematically citing…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 25:–27:19, “Terumah” (Contribution …) Haftorah: I Kings 5:26–6:13 New Testament: II Corinthians 9:1–15 Gospel: Matthew 5:17–20, “Al tachshevu” (Do not think …)
DetailsBY AISH.COM— Eight years ago, “Israel Apartheid Week” began on campuses in America and around the world to show “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle” and to demonize Israel as an “Apartheid” regime. Ten years ago, I began studying this “pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli” phenomenon. It began, like so many movements, on a university campus. The year was 2002,…
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