By REUTERS— Vice President Joe Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders during a visit to the region as head of a US delegation to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral on Monday, Biden’s office said. Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be a chance for the vice president to try to further…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— Those who have perpetrated a deplorable anti-Israel falsehood and outrage on the grounds of St. James Church in Piccadilly, London have done so fully knowing that their intention is to promote the ugliest PLO and Palestinian Authority propaganda. The church has installed a life size 8 meter tall/30 meter long replica of…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 18:1 – 20:23, “Yitro” (Jethro …) New Testament: Hebrews 12:18 – 24 Gospel: Mathew 8:5 – 20, “Cefar Nahum” (Capernaum …)
DetailsTommorow at noon Ariel Sharon’s body will lie in state at the Knesset until 6:00 PM. On Monday at 10 AM there will be a memorial service at the Knesset, followed by the state/military funeral at 2:30 PM, where he will be laid to rest at his family’s Sycamore Ranch in the Negev. Throughout the…
DetailsBy JONATHAN LIS, HAARETZ.COM — Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died Saturday after a significant deterioration in his medical condition over the past two weeks. Sharon, who was 85, was comatose for past eight years. On January 4, 2006, Ariel “Arik” Sharon was at the height of his political power: His newly founded Kadima party…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— The so-called Arab Spring unleashed forces that have been dormant for a century. Like their counterparts throughout the region, Israel’s Arabic-speaking minorities are changing in profound ways. But our leaders fail to grasp the implications of what is happening. Consider the Christian community. Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox priest from…
DetailsIs it still a cappella if the Maccabeats used cups and a table for percussion? The Maccabeats are proud to present their latest pop-adaptation. They put the lyrics of “D’ror Yikra,” a traditional Shabbat-table song, to the tune of “Cups,” recently popularized by the movie Pitch Perfect. The Maccabeats are a now famous Jewish a…
DetailsBy JOHN BOLTON, NY POST— The breaking news that al Qaeda has captured Fallujah and Ramadi raises the question whether America’s sacrifices in Iraq were made in vain. It also highlights the utter inadequacy of President Obama’s Middle East policy, especially his disregard for critical regional threats. Instead, Obama has focused on Israeli-Palestinian issues, essentially…
Details“You were the shoulder on which Israel’s security rested. The story of your life is bound to the story of this country. And your life was dedicated to the life of this country. Your footprints are imprinted on every hill and in every valley. You cultivated the land with your scythe and defended it with…
DetailsThink of this: “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”…”Once more a remnant of the house of Judah will take root…
DetailsBy EARL COX, JPOST— New Year, new hope, new aspirations, and new dreams. Reflecting on the famous words spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King decades ago, I, too, have a dream. This past year was filled with challenges and global turmoil. The Arab Spring sprung many very serious leaks which have yet to be mended. …
DetailsBY ISRAEL HAYOM— In a Likud faction meeting on Monday following the departure of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry from the region, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fielded questions about the peace process from MKs and assured them that “there will be no evacuation of settlements.” While a framework agreement had not yet been reached,…
DetailsBy LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— This week, Pope Francis officially announced that he would be making his way to the Middle East in 2014, visiting Israel and Jordan. The trip is scheduled to take place May 24-26. In Israel, Pope Francis is to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem as well as make…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— Most of us may not have heard of it until recently if at all, but the ‘quenelle’, the name given to a gesture which is performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards, while touching that arm’s shoulder with the opposite hand, has become an important symbol of the shift in Europe transforming…
DetailsBY AFP— Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was on Sunday facing “imminent” death, the Tel Aviv hospital where he is in critical condition said. The health of the 85-year-old Sharon, who was dubbed “the Bulldozer” both for his style and physique, has been worsening since Wednesday when he suffered serious kidney problems after surgery.…
DetailsBy YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The value of Secretary John Kerry’s assessments and proposed peace agreement, which would reduce Israel to a 9-15 mile waistline (the pre-1967 lines), in the increasingly raging Middle East, is consistent with Kerry’s track record. Until the eruption of the civil war in Syria, Kerry was a member of a…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 13:17 – 17:16 “Beshalach” (he sent away …) Haftorah: Judges 4:4 – 5:31 New Testament: I Corinthians 10:1 – 5 Gospel: John 6:15 – 71, “kashehivkin Yeshua” (Jesus perceived …)
DetailsBy WND— The mysterious source of an ancient blue dye used by the children of Israel on garments, at the command of God through Moses, has been found after 2,000 years. An Israeli researcher says she has identified fabric that may contain a mysterious blue dye described in the Bible, one of the few remnants…
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