By PAT MERCER HUTCHENS, A lawyer came to Jesus (Yeshua) and asked him a question – to “test” him. It’s one of those verses in the Bible that makes me think the Good Book really is inspired, like Mama said. The lawyer came and asked a question to test? Well, of course he did. That’s…
DetailsBy Prof. EYAL ZISSER, ISRAEL HAYOM— Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad’s visit to Cairo on Tuesday started off on the wrong foot. The visitor recited his usual hateful and hostile invective against Israel to Egypt’s citizens, but they preferred instead to press Ahmadinejad on Syria, where Iran is supporting its ally President Bashar al-Assad while he…
DetailsBy HERB KEINON, JPOST— US Ambassador Dan Shapiro dismissed speculation on Wednesday that the timing of President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel is somehow aimed at impacting the coalition talks. “Obviously we don’t play a role and have no intention of interfering in Israeli coalition negotiations,” Shapiro told The Jerusalem Post, responding to claims…
Details“The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.” —Charles Spurgeon, 1855
By DANIEL GREENFIELD, FRONTPAGEMAG— It wouldn’t be politics as usual in the Muslim world if both sides didn’t accuse each other of being tools of the vast international Zionist conspiracy. Because that’s just the way things are in the Golden Age of the Arab Spring. On the Muslim Brotherhood side, the Egyptian Prosecutor General is…
DetailsBy JONATHAN TOBIN— One of the interesting subtexts about the debate over the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense has been the relative silence from the organized Jewish world. Though there was widespread shock from most pro-Israel activists, even those who were loyal liberal Democrats, about the president’s decision to choose one…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK-— It is still difficult to assess how Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will govern in his next government. The public has little interest in begging the Palestinians to return to negotiations. But then the Israeli public has rarely had much interest in pursuing fruitless deals with unreformed Palestinian terrorists. The only reason we…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he sees the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as imminent, and that this will be a major blow to Israel’s regional archrival, Iran. This is the second time that Barak has commented on the imminent demise of Assad. He first said this only months…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 21:1–24:18, “Mishpatim” (Judgmensts) Haftorah: II Kings 12:1–17 New Testament: Romans 2:17–29 Gospel: Matthew 5:17–20, “Hizri” (Repent …)
DetailsBy DANIEL MCCABE— “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 Now there have been eight head coaches. Once there was only the one. A legend. My hero. For twenty-nine years Tom Landry coached the Dallas Cowboys.…
DetailsThink of this: “I do not want you to be ignorant of the mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved.” Pray on this: Speed the day our Father, when…
DetailsBy CHANA YA’AR, ARUTZ7— The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria. The recommendation came in a report issued Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has a history of passing numerous biased resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged ‘crimes’ each year. “Israel must,…
DetailsBy HERB KEINON, JPOST— After 14 years of glacial negotiations, Israel and the Vatican are on the verge of signing a long-elusive agreement that would formalize diplomatic relations, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Tuesday. Ayalon’s comments to The Jerusalem Post came after a meeting in Jerusalem of a working commission that has been…
DetailsBy YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNET-— The White House on Thursday warned Syria not to transfer weapons to Hezbollah, as tensions mounted following reported Israeli raids on a military research center and a weapons convoy. “Syria should not further destabilize the region by transferring weaponry to Hezbollah,” said Ben Rhodes, a US deputy national security advisor. The…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— What the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in Egypt meant was the end of any hope on the part of secularists, women, and especially Egyptian Christians who were yearning for equal rights and the beginning of a true and enlightened fledgling democracy. Instead, they will now be forced to endure ominous Islamic…
DetailsBy STEPHEN BRYEN and SHOSHANA BRYEN, GATESTONE— Israeli jets struck something Tuesday night; Wednesday’s guessing game has been, “what was it?” First reports from Western news services said the Israeli Air Force hit a convoy of weapons moving west from Syria toward, or even in Lebanon. A Lebanese army source said nothing was hit there…
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