By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST– The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Friday became the first World Heritage Site to be listed under the name of Palestine. Its approval, by a 13 to 6 vote with two abstentions, marks the second victory in less than a year for the Palestinian Authority’s pursuit of unilateral statehood…
DetailsBy AVIEL SCHNEIDER, ISRAEL TODAY MAG— Nazareth Elite, a sleepy Jewish town in Galilee adjacent to the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth, found itself at the center of controversy over alleged “missionary activity.” Residents woke up one morning to find the town covered with posters, headlined: “Love Has Returned to Our Family,” “God Corrects All…
DetailsBY AP– International officials have condemned statements made by Iran’s vice president at a UN-sponsored drug conference in Tehran where he blamed Jews for the international drug trade. Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, on Thursday became the latest official to condemn the remarks by Iran’s Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi.…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 22:2 — 25:9 “Balak” (Balak …) Haftorah: Micah 5:6 — 6:8 New Testament: I Corinthians 1:20 –31 Gospel: Matthew 23: 1 — 39 “Ha Paruseem” (The Pharisees …)
DetailsBY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— The plight of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and other Arab countries has received little attention from the mainstream media in the West. Lebanon’s apartheid laws deny Palestinians access to the majority of white collar positions in areas such as banking, medicine, management, law and education. Though born and raised…
DetailsBY EARL COX, JPOST— If only Israel would “return” the land it “stole” from Palestinian Arabs there would be a new Palestinian state: that’s the world’s simplistic view of how peace can be won in the Middle East. Despite the continuous repetition of this theme by media, diplomats, world leaders and Arabs, it disregards one…
DetailsBY BRET STEPHENS, WSJ— Egypt is lost. Don’t console yourself with the belief that the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country’s first free presidential election is merely symbolic, since the army still has the guns: The examples of revolutionary Iran and present-day Turkey show how easily the conscripts can be bought, the noncoms…
DetailsFor more prayers and blessings, click here. Think on this: Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7) Pray…
DetailsBY RICK MORAN, FRONTPAGE— Mohammed Morsi, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, was declared the winner of the presidential run-off held last weekend in Egypt. Morsi defeated former Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, garnering nearly 52% of the vote to Shafiq’s 48%. What does Morsi’s victory mean? And more importantly, what kind…
DetailsBY EUGENIA UGRINOVICH, ISRAEL TODAY— Home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, the city of Beit Jala — located on a hill adjacent to Bethlehem — still boasts a large number of worshippers. This fact makes the town unique among Palestinian towns, which have generally seen their Christian populations decline. “People…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— As all of America knows today, President Obama has aggressively sought during his presidency to “fundamentally transform” America. After five trillion dollars of borrowing and spiraling national debt, ObamaCare being passed over the objections of the majority of Americans through legislative back door deals with resistant politicians, failing stimulus and “green” programs…
DetailsGracious Father. You have made man for the glory of yourself, and when not an instrument of that glory, he is a thing of nothing; No sin is greater than the sin of unbelief, for if union with Christ is the greatest good, unbelief is the greatest sin, as being cross to your command; I…
DetailsBY YIGAL WALT, YNET— Arabs across the Middle East are increasingly endorsing Islam as the answer to all the region’s ills, expressing a longing for a glorious, bygone era. This is the case despite the fact that Islam’s heyday featured – at least to some extent – liberalism, openness and acceptance that are patently at…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— The increasing number of missiles deliberately fired from Gaza at southern Israel’s farms, villages and towns is a clear indictment of the Hamas terror machine that rules and occupies the Gaza Strip. It represents a catalog of Arab and Muslim war crimes. There has been a 30% increase from the…
DetailsBY ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER, HAARETZ— Elisa Moed, originally from Detroit, immigrated to Israel in 2005. A phone call from the Vatican isn’t a typical source of inspiration for an American Jewish immigrant to Israel. But for Elisa Moed, it was a call from the Israeli representative of the Holy See that sparked her to create…
DetailsBY ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER, HAARETZ— Elisa Moed, originally from Detroit, immigrated to Israel in 2005. A phone call from the Vatican isn’t a typical source of inspiration for an American Jewish immigrant to Israel. But for Elisa Moed, it was a call from the Israeli representative of the Holy See that sparked her to create…
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