Scripture reading for December 28, 2013
Torah: Exodus 6:2 – 9:35, “Va’era” (and I appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25: – 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 – 33 Gospel: John 8:54 – 59, “Ani hu” ( I AM … )
DetailsSpot Report: What is Israel’s future?
Think on this: “YAHWEH will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.”…” I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear: As surely as I live forever, when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it…
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Video: Melody of light, life and art of Michael and Inna Rogatchi
Melody of Light is a documentary profile of the artistic and philanthropic couple, Inna and Michael Rogatchi, co-founders of The Rogatchi Foundation – www.rogatchi.org The profile has been produced upon the request and for Jewish Life TV ( JLTV) , Lons-Angeles based major international TV channel. Melody of Light as the Chanukah Special program has…
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Kerry to Force Security Plan on Netanyahu
By ARI YASHER, ARUTZ 7 — Report shows Kerry’s staff plans to ‘attack’ Netanyahu in January, make him submit to US arrangement uprooting Jordan Valley communities. — US Secretary of State John Kerry appears to be pressing a national plan, devised in Washington DC, upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The proposal comes as part of…
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The left against Zion
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In the 1960s, the American Left embraced the anti-Vietnam War movement as its cri de coeur. In the 1970s, the Left’s foreign policy focus shifted to calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament by the US and its Western allies. In the 1980s, supporting the Sandinista Communists’ takeover of Nicaragua became the catechism…
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Wish I’d said that
“Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man – His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God – when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.” ~Vance Havner
PLO Official: We Supported the Nazis in WWII
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— If anyone has had doubts about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) support for the Nazis, recent remarks by one of its leaders should make things clearer. In an interview with Russia Today TV on December 7, Farouq Qaddoumi, the former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that…
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Jordanian Anger over Israel’s Temple Mount Security
By MAAYANA MISKIN, ARUTZ 7— Jordan, the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, demanded on Tuesday that Israel remove surveillance cameras at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, the AFP news agency reports. “Jordan rejects Israel’s installation of surveillance cameras on December 8 to monitor waqf officials and worshippers, particularly women,” Information…
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Jerusalem’s landmark sites have been covered by a white blanket as Israel endures its worst snowstorm in two decades. Many schools and business are closed, meaning that like President Shimon Peres, many people had more time to build snowmen.
Iran nuke deal quietly collapses
By AMIR TAHERI, NEW YORK POST — Less than a month after it was hailed as “a great diplomatic coup,” the so-called Geneva accord to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions seems to have come unstuck. The official narrative in Tehran is that Iran signed nothing. “There is no treaty and no pact,” says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman…
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The legal case for Judea and Samaria
By NADAV SHREGAI, ISRAEL HAYOM — For years, the world has regarded Judea and Samaria as Palestinian territory illegally occupied by Israel • But now a group of hundreds of jurists from Israel and abroad is fighting back in the battle for the historical and legal truth. If international legitimacy for the settlement enterprise were…
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Kerry forces Israel’s moment of decision
bY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— There was a ghoulish creepiness to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Israel last week. Here we were, beset by the greatest winter storm in a hundred years. All roads to Jerusalem were sealed off. Tens of thousands of Jerusalemites and residents of surrounding areas were locked down in…
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Spot Report: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Think of this: “The Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”…”Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.She will bear a son, and…
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This week’s prayer points
1. THE THREAT OF A UNITY GOVERNMENT BETWEEN HAMAS AND THE PA: Lord, cause their footing to be as slippery as their lies, so that this agreement cannot gain traction. Lord, Your word says that no two can walk together unless they agree, so cause Hamas and Fatah to disagree as You send a spirit…
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The alarming rise of campus anti-Semitism
By JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— Anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses is growing at an alarming rate. It has escalated to the point that Jewish students on campuses have been physically attacked or threatened for peacefully demonstrating their support of Israel. Events demonizing Jews and even glorifying the murderers of Jews, in the guise of anti-Israel rhetoric,…
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U.S. plan gives Jerusalem holy sites to Vatican
By AARON KLEIN, WND— Secretary of State John Kerry quietly presented a U.S. plan for eastern Jerusalem that calls for an international administrative mandate to control holy sites in the area, according to informed Palestinian and Israeli diplomatic sources. The exact composition of the international mandate is up for discussion, the sources said, but Kerry’s…
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John Kerry’s frequent failure program
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Torrential rains and heavy snow were not the only forms of precipitation to strike the Jewish state last week, leaving the country gripped with fear and trepidation. Adding insult to injury, US Secretary of State John Kerry decided to pay yet another visit to the region, this time to hurl a…
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Annex the Land Before the “End of Jewish History”
By GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— The fate of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is the most important single defining issue for the future of the Jewish people. After Yasser Arafat convinced the Israelis that “delivering” Arabs to the Jews is something his people couldn’t tolerate, Israel has convinced herself that she can deliver many…
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