What is Shavuot? Shavuot—also known as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost—is a Jewish holiday celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). When God delivered the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt he brought them into the wilderness to camp. During this time God provided for…
DetailsBY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— The Coliseum, where thousands upon thousands of “Judaeis” have been massacred by the Roman emperors, became for one night an arena for alliance between Christians and Jews against “odium fidei,” or religious hatred. Last Wednesday in Rome, Jewish leaders for the first time rallied alongside Christians in a candlelit vigil to…
DetailsFilm about Theodor Herzl featuring the important events in his life. The film was made in honor of the centenary of his birth.
Film about Theodor Herzl featuring the important events in his life. The film was made in honor of the centenary of his birth.
BY VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— I have never been an admirer of the CBS program, Sixty Minutes: Too liberal and left leaning for my taste. But, in particular, I have always felt that its veteran reporter, Bob Simon, had a problem. Simon has lived so much of the time in the safety of journalist…
DetailsBy MICHAEL MEDVED, COMMENTARY— Many Jewish voters this November will find themselves at a crossroads: Will they accept their deep disappointment with Barack Obama and vote for his reelection, or will they overcome their own discomfort with Christian evangelicals and vote for the Republican candidate? The irrepressible argument about the appropriate relationship between the Jewish…
Details“For the circle is perfect and infinite in its nature; but it is fixed for ever in its size; it can never be larger or smaller. But the cross, though it has at its heart a collision and a contradiction, can extend its four arms for ever without altering its shape. Because it has a…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In all of our many conversations that took place over the better part of the past decade, I never asked Prof. Benzion Netanyahu what led him to become an historian. Certainly it was a function of his concern for his nation and his recognition that our very existence hung in the…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “B’har” (On the mount …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: II Corinthians 1:18 – 22 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Al Natzraat” (To Nazareth …)
DetailsThink on this: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman: That is detestable.”…”Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for…
DetailsBY JEFF JACOBY, COMMENTARY— In December 1862, from his military headquarters in Mississippi, Major General Ulysses S. Grant issued a directive expelling “Jews as a class” from the immense war zone known as the Department of the Tennessee. General Orders No. 11 was the most notorious anti-Jewish edict ever issued by an official of the…
DetailsBY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the…
Details*The first time I tried falafel I thought it was the best thing I ever put in my mouth. After four years in Israel, however, I grew a little falafel-weary. A falafel stand is as common in Beer Sheva as a crawfish drive-thru in Louisiana. I took this chickpea delicacy (also known as Israel’s national…
DetailsBY ISRAEL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Wednesday), 9 May 2012, met with the leaders of Red Army veterans, on the occasion of Victory Day over Nazi Germany, and received from them a Red Army victory ribbon, one of the Red Army’s highest decorations for bravery. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “You…
DetailsBY CLIFFORD D. MAY, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE— After World War II, the British left India, which was to be partitioned into two independent nations. One of them would have a Hindu majority, the other a Muslim majority. More than 7 million Muslims moved to the territory that became Pakistan. A similar number of Hindus and…
DetailsBY EARL COX, JPOST— As it is now time to say Happy 64th Birthday to America’s most valued friend and ally in the Middle East, let us also recall the miracle of Israel that not only makes it among the youngest nations on earth, but also one of the oldest. Some four thousand years ago,…
DetailsBY EARL COX, JPOST— As it is now time to say Happy 64th Birthday to America’s most valued friend and ally in the Middle East, let us also recall the miracle of Israel that not only makes it among the youngest nations on earth, but also one of the oldest. Some four thousand years ago,…
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