By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— OF ALL the festivals on the Jewish calendar, it is Passover which contains some of the boldest and most powerful imagery. The departure of our ancestors from Egypt, their pursuit by Pharaoh and his chariots, and the climactic splitting of the Red Sea, are just some of the themes that we…
DetailsBy Peter D. Hocken In the second half of the twentieth century, a sea change took place in the attitudes toward the Jewish people within the Christian world. This change was triggered, above all, by the Holocaust, and the massive shock to the Christian psyche caused by the fact that this organized attempt to eliminate…
DetailsBy BETH PATCH, CBN— The best way to understand the real meaning of Easter would be from Jesus. As is recorded in the 12th chapter of John, Jesus was welcomed to Jerusalem by a large crowd singing praises to Him, carrying palm branches and hailing Him as the King of Israel – the Messiah. They…
DetailsBy GAD LIOR, YNET— Israel’s population has crossed the eight million threshold over Passover, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Thursday. With six million Jews, Israel has become the world’s largest Jewish center. The remainder of the population is comprised of 1.6 million Arabs, 350,000 non-Arab Christians and others, mostly olim or relatives of olim from…
DetailsBy RUTHIE BLUM, ISRAEL HAYOM— The last thing U.S. President Barack Obama did before leaving Israel on Friday was to make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phone Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to apologize for the events of May 30, 2010 — the day that a Turkish flotilla set out to breach the naval blockade…
DetailsBy PATRICK B. DONOHUE — FOXNEWS.COM Every age needs courageous individuals to stand up for those who have no voice. Steven Spielberg’s movie, “Schindler’s List,” made the world aware of the heroic efforts of a German businessman, Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. By placing them on his employment list,…
DetailsBy KHALED ABU TOAMEH — GATESTONE– Many Arabs and Muslims hate the U.S. because it stands in the way of fulfilling their dream of destroying Israel. The strong sentiments against Israel and the U.S. are the direct result of decades of indoctrination and incitement. The anti-US protests that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza…
DetailsToday on this Good Friday we remember the death and resurrection of our Messiah. This music video is set to the song of Nichole Nordeman. If you are familiar with the song, it is the crucifixion from the eyes of a child. May it bless you as much as it had blessed me. Why? by…
DetailsThink of this: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will most assurely plant them in this land with all my…
Details“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last….All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured.”–Winston Churchill
What if Moses had Facebook?
By ELHANA MILLER, TIMES OF ISRAEL— The municipality of Bethlehem removed a monument depicting the Palestinian state as covering the entire area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to the city last Friday, Palestinian Media Watch revealed on Sunday. Obama’s route into the city would have…
DetailsBy GONEN GINAT, ISRAEL HAYOM— One of the basic principles of Judaism is that there are no coincidences. Things don’t just happen for no reason. Everything is guided from above. A bird doesn’t chirp at a specific moment by chance; a cigarette butt hurled onto the sidewalk doesn’t accidentally roll into a crevice and become…
DetailsBY EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Do those who continually attempt to bully and threaten Israel ever rest? One thing is for certain, it will never work. Israel’s only desire is to live in peace on the land that rightly belongs to them; land given to them in an eternal covenant by God Himself and land…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— It was April 24, 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, and in between his duties as an infantryman, young Isaac J. Levy sat down in camp on one of the intermediate days of Passover to write a short letter to his sister back home. Levy, who served in…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 33:12 –34:26 “Vayomer Moshe” ( And Moses said …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 36:37 — 37:14 New Testament: I Corinthians 5:6 — 8 Gospel: Mark 16:1 — 8 “Casheahver Shabbat” (When the Sabbath had past …)
DetailsBy JONATHAN TOBIN— Jewish left-wingers are cheering President Obama’s Jerusalem speech in which he once again made the case for a two-state solution. Some are hoping that this will mean a renewed campaign of U.S. pressure on the Netanyahu government. With a new secretary of state in John Kerry who may well be foolish enough…
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