Scripture Reading for March 2, 2013
Torah: Exodus 30:11–34:35, “Ki Tisa” (When you take …) Haftorah: I Kings 18:1–39 New Testament: II Corinthians 3:1–18 Gospel: Matthew 26:17–30, “Bar reshon la hag” (On the 1st day of the feast…)
DetailsTorah: Exodus 30:11–34:35, “Ki Tisa” (When you take …) Haftorah: I Kings 18:1–39 New Testament: II Corinthians 3:1–18 Gospel: Matthew 26:17–30, “Bar reshon la hag” (On the 1st day of the feast…)
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— We have already reported several times on Benjamin Netanyahu’s revival of the Prime Minister’s Bible Study group in Israel. Now the Knesset is getting in on the trend with the establishment of its own weekly sessions of scriptural enlightenment. The initiative came from one of the new Knesset parties, the centrist Yesh…
DetailsBy MARK TOOLEY, FRONTPAGEMAG— Recently “Christianity Today,” the prominent evangelical journal, spotlighted the “Top 5 Books on Israel & Palestine,” as asserted by Gary Burge, a professor at Chicago-area evangelical Wheaton College, one of evangelical America’s most prestigious schools. Burge is a crusader for trying to shift evangelicals away from their typically pro-Israel stance. All…
DetailsIngredients 5 cups flour, sifted 1 cup sugar 1 cup oil 4 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder pinch of salt 1/4 cup orange juice Filling: any flavor pie filling, preserves, jam Directions 1) Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. 2) Refrigerate the dough for several hours. 3) Roll out the dough on floured pastry…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ 7– Make no mistake: Obama hates Israel and wants to make her weak, but he is also weakening the USA. Chuck Hagel refused to release documents on sources of his foreign funding because he has purportedly received donations from “Friends of Hamas.” Yet he was saved from senatorial and public exposure…
DetailsBy SHOSHANA BRYEN, inSIGHT— President Obama’s plans in the Middle East include three and a half hours in Ramallah to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The president’s hope is to find a mechanism for advancing Israeli-Palestinian “peace.” The appearance of the President of the United States in “Palestine” is calculated to provide Abbas with…
DetailsBy DAVID LAZARUS, ISRAEL TODAY— Once again, another inexplicable, perhaps even divine spin of events, will bring President Obama to Israel around Purim. Some see this is an opportunity for Obama to press for a renewed peace initiative on the newly elected Knesset. Others, a politicized Obama trying to get himself into the spotlight for…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— The UN issued a harsh report against Israel aimed at undermining the legitimacy of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria. At the end of January, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared war on Israel, issuing one of the harshest reports against the Jewish state in recent memory. Replete with falsehoods…
DetailsBy RUTHIE BLUM, ISRAEL HAYOM— It is a rare political leader in Israel who has defiled the concept of peace as consistently and unabashedly as President Shimon Peres. And if it weren’t for the Orwellian universe that much of mankind currently occupies, his endless abuse of the term would have led to his being totally…
DetailsBy ALAN DERSHOWITZ, GATESTONE— Among those being considered to succeed Pope Benedict XVI is a notorious anti-Semite, Cardinal Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras. His name has appeared on various media short lists and his photograph was featured, along with other possible candidates, on the front page of the Miami Herald. He was also under consideration…
DetailsBy REUTERS— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu thanked outgoing Pope Benedict on Monday for his efforts to shore up often troubled relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Jews, including with his 2009 visit to the Holy Land. That trip, in which the German-born Benedict paid respects at Israel’s main Holocaust memorial, was seen by many…
DetailsBy JONATHAN SCHANZER, FDD POLICY BRIEF— Multiple sources suggest that the winds of war are blowing to Israel’s north, and that such a war could erupt very soon. Lebanese parliamentarian Jean Ogassapian of the Future Bloc issued a warning over the weekend of “dangers of an Israeli strike against Lebanon. There is information that Israel…
DetailsBy DEBKAFILE— President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Iran was a “nuclear state” during his Cairo visit two weeks ago. Saturday, Feb. 16, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shed more light by saying, “Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons but no power could stop Tehran’s access to an atomic bomb if it intended to build it. debkafile:…
DetailsThe Tarantino Spoof: http://www.mostwatchedtoday.com/tag/dejesus-uncrossed/ Think of this: ” I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 27:20–30:10, “Tetzavah” (You shall command …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 43:10–27 New Testament: Hebrews 13:7–17 Gospel: Matthew 12: 1–8, “Adon Ha Shabbat” (Lord of the Sabbath …)
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