By RON BEN-YISHAI, YNET— The American policy toward the Middle East has been moving in the past few months from failure to failure, and mainly from helplessness to embarrassing mistakes. The inability of the Obama administration to produce worthy responses to the developments is angering not only the supporters of the US in the region,…
DetailsBy EARL COX, JPOST— Every year the Israeli people celebrate the Passover Holiday, remembering the “Exodus” of their forefathers from 400 years of bondage in Egypt. Today there is another “Exodus” taking place that needs greater attention from the world. It is the massive departures of Christians from Muslim controlled lands in the Middle East.…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— There is an ancient Talmudic saying best summarized as: “Those who are kind to the cruel in the end will be cruel to the kind.” We first saw this warning vividly and sorrowfully cast aside at the Summit of All Americas as President Obama, during his first term in office, smiled and…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11, “Vaetchanan” (And I pleaded … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:1 – 26 New Testament: Acts 5:1 – 11 Gospel: Matthew 23: 33 – 39, “Nechasheem” (Snakes … )
DetailsBy Dr. MANFRED GERSTENFELD, ARUTZ7— Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein of the Wiesenthal Center: “They claim to support the underdog against ‘powerful and evil Israel.’” The leadership of most American ‘mainline’ Protestant churches is top-heavy with anti-Israel agitation, especially among those on mission committees. By now, a substantial number of their members have been…
DetailsOn Tisha B’Av, the Jewish people mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple. Seated on the floor as mourners, the adults in the synagogue recite the traditional kinnot dirges. But is the goal simply the continuation of the mourning, for the sake of mourning? The children have a different idea of what needs to be…
DetailsBy GIL RONEN, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Working near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar has unearthed the earliest alphabetical written text ever uncovered in the city. The inscription is engraved on a large pithos, a neckless ceramic jar found with six others at the Ophel excavation site. According…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Arab Christians from northern Israel who are tired of being lumped in with other Arabs who are antagonistic toward the Jewish state have launched a new political party that aims to make a positive contribution to the Jewish state. Under the banner “Sons of the New Covenent – the Israeli…
DetailsBy JONATHAN SCHANZER, POLITICO— Qatar’s ambassador to Washington, Mohammed Bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi, is about to receive a letter that will put his diplomatic skills to the test. Congressmen Peter Roskam (R-IL) and John Barrow (D-GA) are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter on Capitol Hill this week, collecting signatures to challenge the uber-wealthy Persian Gulf emirate…
Details“Ten measures of beauty descended upon the world, nine were given to Jerusalem and one to the rest of the world.”—Midrash Tanhuma, Kedoshim 10
Think on this: When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled his temple. Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST-— Six weeks ago, a remarkable scene played out at the US National Defense University in Washington. In the middle of President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated speech on US counterterrorism policy, a protester from a far-left group interrupted the commander in chief and repeatedly heckled him, calling for the immediate release of terror…
DetailsDeputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, displays in a new video the magic of Jerusalem as a city that combines diversity with harmony, modernity with history, and as a sacred city that for the first time in history, under Israeli sovereignty, Jews, Christians, Muslims, secular, religious, young and old are living side by side. In addition,…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22, “Devareem” (words …) Haftorah: Isaiah 1:1 – 27 New Testament: Acts 9:1 – 21 Gospel: John 1:1 – 5, 14, “Hadavar” (The Word … )
DetailsBy RON JAGER— In Recent weeks we have witnessed Egypt coming apart at the seams, with a military coup and on the brink of civil war between the ousted Muslim Brotherhood, cutely called by the White House “the brothers”, and the newly installed secular interim government. In Syria, the civil war has taken the lives…
DetailsBy HAGAI SEGAL, YNET— We have yet to finish licking the wounds of the Shalit deal, and a new insane deal is being hatched. Some 120 terrorist blood-spillers are preparing to pack their bags. According to a list leaked to the Almagor Terror Victims Association, the terrorists slated for release in order to resume peace…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— On Wednesday, Egypt had its second revolution in as many years. And there is no telling how many more revolutions it will have in the coming months, or years. This is the case not only in Egypt, but throughout the Islamic world. The American foreign policy establishment’s rush to romanticize as…
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