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“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe.”—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Jews arrested for singing on Temple Mount

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Ten Jewish men were arrested on Monday after they unfurled Israeli flags and sang the Israeli national anthem atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. What could be so wrong about public displays of national pride in one’s own national capital? Unfortunately for these 10 men, all expressions of Jewishness, be they nationalistic…

Iran wants the bomb, and sanctions relief

By REUEL MARC GERECHT and MARK DUBOWITZ, THE WASHINGTON POST— Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is lying when he says the Islamic Republic has never had any intention of building an atomic weapon. Defecting Iranian nuclear engineers told U.S. officials in the late 1980s that the mullahs’ program, then hidden, was designed exclusively for such arms.…

Two words

by ELLIOT ABRAMS, MOSAIC— Robert Nicholson’s “Evangelicals and Israel” should worry any Jewish supporter of Israel, for three major reasons. The first is that ingratitude is a great sin—though one with deep roots in Jewish history. The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His…

Cartoon: Culture of the Middle East

Lessons from the Yom Kippur War

By DANIEL GREENFIELD, FRONTPAGEMAG— Forty years ago, Israel experienced the most devastating war in its modern history. Israel not only suffered its worst casualties during the Yom Kippur War, but actually came close to being destroyed with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warning that “The Third Temple is falling.” To understand the lessons of the Yom…

Cartoon: Abraham’s blessing

Israeli Christians Declare Affinity for Jewish State

By AHUVA BLAOFSKY, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS — At a recent conference in Jerusalem, leading Israeli Christians gathered to set themselves apart from their Muslim counterparts and declare their affinity for the Jewish state in which they reside.  At the conference, entitled “Israeli Christians: Breaking Free? The advent of an independent Christian voice in Israel,” representatives…

Scripture reading for October 19, 2013

  Torah: Genesis 18:1 – 22:24, “Vayera”  (and he appeared …) Haftorah: II Kings 4:1 – 37 New Testament: II Peter 2:4 – 11 Gospel: Luke 24: 36 – 53, “Shalom lechem”  (Peace be to you …)

‘Abraham was not a Jew’

By AVIEL SCHNEIDER, ISRAEL TODAY— “Abraham was not a Jew,” insisted Arab Knesset member Ibrahim Sarsur, party leader of the United Arab List, in a statement released to the Israeli media last week. Sarsur was responding to a recent assertion by Jewish Knesset members Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel, both of the Jewish Home party,…

Wish I’d said that

“Everything is in the power of heaven except the awe and fear of heaven.”—Talmud, Berachot 33b