By ED LASKY, AMERICAN THINKER— Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama’s criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open arms at the United Nations. We at American Thinker have been warning about her influence with…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— When all else fails, lean on Israel which in today’s political environment means unilateralism. Now that Secretary of State Kerry has come and gone back home with little to show for his efforts as far as resuscitating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, we have been inundated with expectations to initiate…
DetailsBy PAM GELLER, ARUTZ 7— After the Jerusalem Post ran a vicious defamatory article by the uber-left Rabbi Yoffie, President of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), I submitted a response to his unchallenged and unsubstantiated libel to Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde. Linde bounced me to Sara Miller, Managing Editor of JPost.com, who procrastinated and…
DetailsBy EARL COX, JPOST — Prime Minister Netanyahu is being pressured from all sides, and especially the Obama Administration, to restart peace talks and give up Judea and Samaria for a Palestinian state. The pleas come shrouded in willful ignorance that there is no true Arab Palestinian people, and the Arabs making the demands are…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32, “Korach” (Korah …) Haftorah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 22: 15 – 22, “Hacul Haperusim” (Then the Pharisees … )
DetailsThink on this: “Surely the Sovereign Yahweh does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7) Pray on this: Father you have said “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you and watch over you.” It’s with confidence in your promises that…
Details“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child…
DetailsBy AP — “My dad had his conversion before I was even born,” Sam Phillips said Thursday. “Growing up, my dad went to Jewish camp in the summer,” Mr. Phillips, 26, said of his father, Howard J. Phillips, founder of the Conservative Caucus, who died last month. “We just found this old 8-millimeter video of…
DetailsBy MATTHEW M. HAUSMAN, ARUTZ 7 — Some Christians embrace Jews and Israel for the right reasons while others do not. Support for Israel among evangelical Christians is a growing phenomenon that has many American Jews scratching their heads and asking questions. Is Christian support sincere or is it merely subterfuge to facilitate the missionary…
DetailsBy Dr. Brad Young It is common in Christian academic circles to debate whether or not Paul was the “second founder of Christianity” who converted from Judaism to start a new religion. I disagree with this view because I cannot accept the simplistic explanation that Jesus was a loyal Jew, faithful to his people, while…
DetailsBy GAVRIEL FISKE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Position paper weighing US and Israeli military options against Iran, written by retired US Marine Corps general James Cartwright and Amos Yadlin, former IAF head and military intelligence chief, posits that a US-led strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities would be preferable from a military standpoint, while an Israeli…
DetailsBy DANIEL TAUBER, JPOST— President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel last March likely left even his harshest Israeli critics pleasantly surprised. He showered Israel with compliments, joked about prior disagreements, and most importantly, made no demands. Still, Obama could not completely refrain from addressing the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” and delivered one of his signature lecture-speeches on…
DetailsBy PETER HUESSY, GATESTONE— The April terrorist attacks during the Boston Marathon killed and wounded scores of people. Machete-wielding thugs last week butchered a British soldier in full view of citizens on a London street. Simultaneously, in Sweden, a full five days of riots have seen burned cars, banks and schools, and assaulted citizens. These…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— President Obama in his speech on “The War on Terror” has shown once and for all that he does not consider Islamic terror to be a strategic threat on the United States. Despite the City of Boston still reeling from the effects of a major Islamic terror attack only weeks ago, and…
DetailsThink on this: “Be always on the watch and pray fervently that you may have the power to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:36) Pray on this: Father, your people and especially young people are woefully ignorant of what you have…
DetailsBy DAVID RUBIN— For years, we have been hearing expressions such as “the plight of the Palestinians”, “the legitimate rights of the Palestinians”, and most recently, the “national right of the Palestinians to their own independent state”. These mantras have been repeated in the last thirty years almost as often as a MacDonald’s commercial and…
Details“Today let us take our place at Jesus’ side and look upon His people with His eyes, full of love and mercy. Then our hearts would ache to see this chosen people of God wandering through the centuries, wretched, despised, shunned, ostracized, and afflicted with pain like the suffering Servant of God in Isaiah 53. …
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