By RON JAGER— It was last week during Succoth, that we read and heard that timeless quote from Kohelet, “Nothing new under the sun.” A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of the physical integrity of children” was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a pan-European intergovernmental organization.…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 12:1 – 17:27, “Lekh Lekha” (Go forth from here …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:26 – 41:16 New Testament: Romans 4:1 – 25 Gospel: John 8:48 – 59, “Lifneh Avraham ani hu” (Before Abraham I am …)
Details**Praise YHVH for His love and good plan for Israel to be realized in conjunction with the nations. **Pray for YHVH to strengthen His people, and to give them enduring revelation of the spiritual realities that are in motion against them. **Pray for them to see their lives through His grid and calling, not through…
DetailsBy RAFAEL CASTRO, YNET — Most Jews are baffled by the reaction of leftist commentators to events in the Middle East. There is relatively little outcry when Syrians butcher Syrians, no outcry when Iraqis murder Iraqis, whereas any Palestinian finger grazed by an Israeli bullet invites immediate outbursts of wholehearted indignation. The cognitive dissonance of…
DetailsBy RABBI REUVEN SPOLTER, ARUTZ 7— Dr. Jeffrey Woolf recently published a compelling article on the recently released Pew Poll on the state of American Jewry and Judaism and its frightening results. The poll’s findings are not really that surprising, and merely confirm what everyone already knows: non-Orthodox Judaism cannot overcome the liberal values of…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Israel the party pooper is Obama’s greatest foe, because it insists on basing its strategic assessments and goals on the nature of things even though this means facing down evil. In his speech on Tuesday before the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried to get the Americans to stop…
DetailsThink on this: “The Most High is Sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest (basest) of men.” ….”Block their path with thorn bushes; wall them in so that they can not find their way.” (Daniel 4:17; Hosea 1:6) Pray on this: Gracious LORD,…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 6:9 – 11:32, “Noach” (Noah …) Haftorah: Isaiah: 54:1 – 55:5 New Testament: I Peter 3:18 – 22 Gospel: Matthew 24:36 – 46, “Aval et hayom” (But of that day …)
Details“We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”—Winston Churchill
By MAYA SHWERDER, JPOST — A steadfast Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made clear in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that Israel would not accept a nuclear armed Iran, and would “stand alone” if necessary to achieve that aim. “Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, even if we…
DetailsREUTERS — Former US official: Rouhani has opened a window with words alone. WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM – Six months after US President Barack Obama eased a strained relationship with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during a visit to Israel dubbed “Operation Desert Schmooze,” the two leaders now face the biggest test of whether they can work together –…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, TOWNHALL.COM — US President Barack Obama’s rapidly changing positions on Syria have produced many odd spectacles. One of odder ones was the sight of hundreds of lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee fanning out on Capitol Hill to lobby members of the House and Senate to support Obama’s plan to…
DetailsBy EARL COX, JPOST — “Peace” talks. “Peace” negotiations. It is imperative that the people of Israel wake up and realize that there will never be peace with the Palestinians as long as there is a State of Israel populated by Jews. The problem is not settlements or construction or small pieces of land in…
DetailsDEBKAfile Special Report — Western military sources predict an upsurge of tension this week along Israel’s borders with Syria and Lebanon. Moscow, Tehran and Damascus may be planning to embarrass Binyamin Netanyahu when he sits down with President Barack Obama at the White house Monday, Sept. 30, and addresses the UN General Assembly the next…
DetailsJerusalem the fifth day of the festival of Sukkot. Jews from across the world took part in the bi-annual “birkat kohanim” or “priestly blessings,” which take place during Sukkot and Pesach (Passover). The service saw thousands of kohanim – members of the priestly families of Israel – bless the gathered crowd in a show of…
DetailsBy GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— The fundamental Zionist idea about anti-Semitism was that once a Jewish State was realized, the problem of anti-Semitism in Paris, Berlin and Rome would be solved. Since Jews would have their own homeland, they could no longer be persecuted as religious and national strangers. But this neat packet of reasoning…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND— On Wednesday morning of last week, just hours before the start of Succot, hundreds of young men in drab green uniforms mulled about at the foot of the Nahal Brigade memorial in Pardes Hanna. A mixture of exhaustion and enthusiasm was evident on their boyish faces as they prepared for the start…
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