By 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. …
DetailsBy GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Israel “will know what to do” if Russia delivers highly advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday. AFP said this was “an apparent allusion to another air strike” on Syria. “The deliveries have not taken place – I can attest to this – and I hope…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND— Israeli President Shimon Peres created a stir on Monday when he delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Jordan that strayed far beyond his circumscribed presidential mandate. In a short and somewhat rambling address, and in remarks to reporters afterwards, the 89- year-old head of state made a number of…
DetailsBy ISI LEIBLER – JPOST — In the post-Holocaust era, many had predicted, mistakenly, that the world’s oldest hatred would recede, even anticipating that anti-Semites would soon become an extinct species. Participants at the fourth conference of the Global Forum for Combating anti-Semitism, held under the auspices of the Foreign Ministry this week in…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 13:1 – 15:41, “Shelach lekha” (Send for yourself …) Haftorah: Joshua 2:1 – 2:24 New Testament: Hebrews 3:7 – 4:1 Gospel: John 17, “Deber Yeshua” (Jesus spoke …)
DetailsBy YOSSI ALONI, ISRAEL TODAY— Nigerian church and government officials last week came to Israel bearing a large financial gift for Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical organization (the local equivalent of the Red Cross). The Nigerian Redeemed Christian Church of God had previously donated a new ambulance to the MDA station in Jerusalem.…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenarios, including…
DetailsBy SHOSHANA BRYEN, GATESTONE— At first blush, it might have sounded like praise, but it wasn’t. Before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity , but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of…
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