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“In our own lives God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time.”–Rabbi Joshua Heschel

Knesset Bill Would Allow Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

By JTA— Two MKs from Likud and Labor have collaborated to propose a law that would allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Written by Likud MK Miri Regev and Labor MK Hilik Bar, the law would reverse the current ban on Jewish prayer on the mount, considered Judaism’s holiest site. The current ban…

Letting go of Abbas

By CAROLINE GLICK— What makes PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tick? In 2008, when Abbas rejected then prime minister Ehud Olmert’s expansive offer of Palestinian statehood, he did so for the same reason that Yassir Arafat rejected then prime minister Ehud Barak’s expansive offer of Palestinian statehood at Camp David in 2000.…

Israel to strengthen ties with Latin America

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST— The government on Sunday approved a three-year NIS 50 million plan to strengthen its economic ties with at least five Latin American countries, meant to help Israel decrease its dependency on Europe as the primary trading partner. The plan focuses on Costa Rica and the four countries that make up the…

Arabs claim Pope Will ‘Recognize Palestine’

By ARUTZ SHEVA— Palestinian Authority (PA) and Arab Christian sources are already celebrating Pope Francis’s visit to Israel starting next Sunday, saying his choice to begin the trip directly in PA-held Bethlehem is meant to “recognize Palestine” and “oppose the occupation.” “He is taking a helicopter directly from Jordan to Palestine – to Bethlehem. It’s…

Scripture reading for May 24, 2014

  Torah: Numbers 1:1 – 4:20  “Bamidbar”  (In the desert … ) Haftorah: Hosea 2:1 – 23 New Testament: Romans 9:22 – 23 Gospel: Luke 24: 36 – 51  “Shalom lechem”  (Peace to you …)

Jerusalem Imam calls for invasion of Israel

By ISRAEL TODAY— An imam at the Al Aqsa Mosque atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount has publicly urged the armies of the Arab world to invade Israel thus fulfill the great Muslim longing of destroying the hated “Zionist entity.” In a televised sermon from Milan, Italy that was broadcast by Al Jazeera, Imam Raed Al-Daan said…

Anti-Semitism in America

By ROBERT HORENSTEIN, JPOST– IT WASN’T that long ago that Jews in America felt more comfortable and secure than ever before. Jew hatred finally seemed to be a thing of the past. Polls conducted by the Anti-Defamation League showed a marked decline in the number of Americans holding anti-Semitic views, from 29 percent of the…

Poll says anti-Semitism is global matter

By NAFTALI BENDAVID, WALL STREET JOURNAL— About a quarter of the world’s population agrees that a number of negative statements about Jews are “probably true,” according to a poll aimed at providing a statistical underpinning to the question of how widespread anti-Semitism is globally. In the survey to be released Tuesday, which covered 101 countries…

Wish I’d said that

“I believe time is the hardest thing to manage properly in our lives. I believe that the stewardship of time is perhaps the supreme test of our discipline and our real Christianity. And so I pray like the psalmist, “Teach me to number my days aright.” Teach me to set my priorities aright, teach me…

Cartoon: Jews building homes

Canadian boy wins international youth bible competition

By RAPHAEL POCH, BIN— This past Tuesday, on Israel’s Independence Day, the annual International Youth Bible Contest finals were held in Israel. The victor, Eitan Amos, an 18-year-old Yeshiva high-school student at  Or Chaim (Light of Life) in Toronto, Canada, won first place making history by becoming the first Canadian to ever win the contest.…

Netanyahu: If Fatah-Hamas unity deal is signed, Abbas is held responsible for every rocket

By Herb Keinon, JPOST— Israel will hold Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas responsible for every rocket fired on it from Gaza if he goes through with his national unity pact with Hamas, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. The prime minister made his comments in Tokyo before the start of a meeting with Japanese…

Sisi: If Needed, We’ll Amend Peace Treaty with Israel

By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Egypt’s former army chief and leading presidential candidate, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, said Sunday that, if elected, he would be willing to consider making changes to the peace agreement with Israel. “If we are asked to make amendments to the peace treaty with Israel, we will do it,” Sisi said in…

Scripture reading for May 17, 2014

  Torah: Leviticus 26:3 – 27:34, “Bechukotai”  (In my statutes… ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19 – 17:14 New Testament: I Corinthians 2:6 – 16 Gospel: Matthew 21:33 – 46, “Shimu”  (Listen!… )