By JEREMY SHARON, JPOST— A group of Christian leaders in South Africa, joined by the country’s Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, has called on the ruling African National Congress party to refrain from taking “partisan action” in its stance towards the Israel-Palestinian conflict during its national conference that began Sunday morning. The ANC’s 53rd National…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Many in the American Jewish community are aghast to discover that President Obama is planning to appoint former Senator Chuck Hagel to serve as Defense Secretary. If you want the skinny on how Hagel has come to be known as one of the few ferociously anti-Israel senators in the past generation,…
DetailsDid you know that Yeshua celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the ‘Feast of Dedication’? It’s true! So why was Hanukkah important to Yeshua? And what can we learn about Yeshua in the Hanukkah celebration? Ron Cantor takes us to Jerusalem for some exciting answers!
By RON JAGER— The fictitious State of Palestine that was recently recognized as an observer non-member state at the United Nations will be an appropriate homeland for the “invented People”. It seems to matter little – as was also evidenced at UNESCO in the past, that there is no existing Palestinian entity anywhere in the…
DetailsBy DANIEL MCCABE— “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Matthew 26:52 In our part of the world it’s routine to experience the sight and sounds of a proud and powerful train engine lumbering down the tracks, and normally we keep a sharp eye out…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 41:1 — 44:17 “Mikatz” (at the end …) Haftorah: I Kings 3;15 — 4:1 New Testament: Romans 19:1 –13 Gospel: John 8:48 — 58 “Hashevoo” (They answered … )
DetailsThink on this: “He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations.…
DetailsA menorah rescued from a Long Island synagogue will head to Washington D.C. and be the centerpiece of Thursday’s White House Chanukah ceremony. The almost seven-feet tall, brass candelabra from Temple Israel on Long Beach will symbolize how the entire region is coming into the light after the darkness of Superstorm Sandy, according to Rabbi…
Details“I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.”-–Charles Spurgeon, 1855
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli leaders on Wednesday expressed revulsion over the latest act of vandalism against Christian symbols. Hours earlier, presumably Jewish assailants spray-painted anti-Christian graffiti on the walls of a monastery in central Jerusalem. The Monastery of the Cross at the southern end of Jerusalem’s Sakker Park was defaced with the slogans…
DetailsBy DR. RICHARD CRAVATTS, ARUTZ 7— As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book, The World Turned Upside Down, Northeastern University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), paralleling the moral incoherence of anti-Israel activists demonstrating elsewhere in American and European…
DetailsBy LAURI B. REGAN, AMERICAN THINKER— In a recent Shabbat sermon, the senior rabbi at one of Baltimore’s largest congregations explained why, whether he liked it or not, he felt compelled to talk about Israel. He suggested that due to the voluminous number of e-mails he received discussing an article written by Ed Koch and…
DetailsIngredients 2 16 ounces cans cooked chickpeas, drained 1 tablespoon olive oil salt and pepper 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 1/4 cup unsalted butter 2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 cup onion, diced 1 tablespoon flour 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander 2 cups water 2 smoked chipotle peppers in adobo sauce from can, diced 1 (14.5 ounces) can…
DetailsBy EARL COX, JPOST— In recent weeks my heart has been heavy for the tremendous burden being shouldered by Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. How does he address what seems an inevitable attack from Iran without alienating the international community and especially America’s President Barack Obama who, for almost four years, has been lethargic in…
DetailsBy PETER MARTINO, GATESTONE— Iran is building nuclear weapons, Syria is slaughtering its citizens, Libya is being taken over by al-Qaeda, Egypt is threatened with another Pharaoh, Turkey is working toward rebuilding the Ottoman Empire, and Christians are being massacred in Egypt, Nigeria and Mali (among other countries). But last Thursday, the European Commission summoned…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— The Second World War is over and much of Europe is a wasteland. Millions of displaced persons roam the ravaged landscape in the wake of the German Nazi devastation. Millions more are dead but none of the citizens of Europe have suffered disproportionally more than its Jewish remnant. At the beginning of…
DetailsBy RABBI AVI SHAFRAN, JWReview— ‘TIS THE SEASON to be Jewish; menorahs and latkes abound, and oil (for each, unfortunately) will soon flow like water in countless Jewish homes. Chanukah, thank Heaven, is once again upon us. It has become fashionable to attribute the popularity of the Jewish festival of lights — second among American…
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