By RON JAGER— As a longtime resident of Shaare Tiqva for the past 24 years, Shabbat Chol Hamoed began as a non-eventful day in which the reading of Aicha is for me always a special event. Towards late afternoon on Shabbat, when the ominous gray clouds above began to release winters first rainfall, the entrance…
DetailsBy YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— 1. The US covenant with the Jewish State dates back to Columbus Day, which is always celebrated around Sukkot. According to “Columbus Then and Now” (Miles Davidson, 1997, p. 268), Columbus arrived in America on Friday afternoon, October 12, 1492, the 21st day of the Jewish month of Tishrei,…
DetailsBy RABBI TULY WEISZ, ISRAEL 365— When I used to live in the United States, my curious non Jewish friends would always ask me at this time of year whether I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, celebrate Thanksgiving. The mere question reminds me that we still have much to learn about each other, because the answer…
DetailsBy GIULIO MEOTI, INN — Two narratives are at war on the same, slim and holy piece of land. Forget about coexistence. Israel’s problems stem from a guilt complex. The Jewish people are, I believe, the chosen people, but are subjected to brainwashing by a small group of guilt-ridden personalities, including most of the politicians…
Details“Since 1948 Arab leaders…have used the Palestine people for selfish political purposes. This is…criminal.”—King Hussein of Jordan, 1960
Think on this: “My name will be great among the Gentiles, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name because my name will be great among the Gentiles, says YAHWEH Almighty.” (Malachi 1:11) Pray on this: Father, we know that the…
DetailsBy JTA and AARON KALMAN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Pope Francis praised Jews for keeping their faith despite the Holocaust and other “terrible trials” throughout history, and reaffirmed Judaism as the “holy root” of Christianity. Francis made the statements in an unprecedented open letter to Eugenio Scalfari, a prominent Italian atheist and founding editor of the…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— “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…
DetailsThe distance from Sinai to the Promised Land should have taken eleven days but instead it took forty years. So, what took so long? And the first time the Israelites got to the border of the Promised Land, it didn’t go so well. Why?
By JOE KOVACS, WND— Archaeologists say they’ve discovered an ancient town mentioned in the New Testament, and it could be the location to which Jesus sailed after miraculously feeding some 4,000 people by multiplying a few fish and loaves of bread. Ken Dark of the University of Reading in the U.K. says the town may…
DetailsBy ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, REUTERS— Almost half of Syrian rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, according to a new report by London intelligence and defense consultancy IHS Janes. On Sunday, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper cited the report as putting the number of opposition forces at 100,000, broken up into around 1,000 groups. The study said…
DetailsBy RAYMOND IBRAHIM, ISRAEL TODAY— Now that the attacks on Egypt’s Christian churches have subsided, stage two of the jihad — profiting from the fear and terror caused by stage one — is setting in: reports are arriving that the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters are forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village…
DetailsBy TRAVELUJAH— Despite the recent tensions in Syria, over 5,000 Christian pilgrims from nearly 100 nations will descend on Jerusalem for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s annual celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles. The festival begins Friday evening (20 September) in Ein Gedi at the Oasis Hotel and continues to Jerusalem’s International Convention Center for…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— With the de facto capitulation of President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry over Syria, and with Russian President Putin now very much in control and humiliating the United States in the pages of the New York Times, the towering peril to the world is now the re-invigorated Russian support…
DetailsBy DAVID LAZARUS, ISRAEL TODAY— As I sit down to write this article on the eve of Succoth, the Feast of Tabernacles, five more “urgent warnings” pop up in my inbox concerning the situation in Syria. With Obama and Putin now ratcheting up the rhetoric over the Mideast, some are even prophesying that World War…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 29:17 – 25, “Sukkot” (Feast of Tabernacles …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 38:18 – 39:16 New Testament: James Gospel: John 1:1 – 14 “Beresheet Hayah Hadabar” (In the beginning was the Word …)
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Twenty years ago today, Israel’s so-called peace process with the PLO was officially ushered in at the White House Rose Garden. A year or so later, when the death toll of Israeli victims of the massive terror offensive that the PLO organized shortly afterwards reached what then seemed unbearable heights, a…
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