What is Hanukkah? Hanukkah is the eight day Jewish holiday known as the “festival of lights” or “feast of dedication.” Each year the holiday falls sometime between late November and the end of December. In 2013, Hanukkah will last from November 27th to December 5th. Hanukkah is the celebration of a miracle that happened over…
Details“You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”—Max Lucado, The Christmas Candle
By RYAN JONES–ISRAEL TODAY— Israel on Monday responded to international condemnation over its earlier approval of more Jewish apartments in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria by announcing that an additional 1,600 housing units will now be constructed. In addition to the 3,000 units approved on Sunday, Israel will now add another 1,600 apartments to the northern…
DetailsBy RICHARD CRAVATTS, FRONTPAGEMAG— 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 cities, sponsored…
DetailsBy YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The November 29, 2012 U.N. vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a “nonmember observer state” — in violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords — was an expected derivative of Israel’s policy toward the PA since 1993 — critical concessions, retreats, indecisiveness, submission to pressure and appeasement. What has Israel…
DetailsBy WILLIAM BIGELOW, BREITBART — Finally, those in the West can take their blinders off. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has taken off the veil and articulated what the real war is between Islam and the West: not a war over the land of Israel but the religious war between radical Islam on one side…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 37:1–40:23 “Vayeshev” (and he settled … ) Haftorah: Amos 2:6–3:8 New Testament: Acts 7:9–16 Gospel: Matthew 1:1–6, 16–25 “Sepher ha yuchaseen” (The book of geneology …)
DetailsBy ALAN DERSHOWITZ — JPOST — The actions of the General Assembly have removed the incentive necessary for Palestinians to negotiate with Israel.– The General Assembly vote declaring that Palestine, within the pre-1967 borders, is a “state”, at least for some purposes, would have nasty legal implications, if it were ever to be taken seriously…
Details*The hamantashen is the classic purim cookie, served in every classroom party across Israel. In theory, the idea of the cookie is a little gross. The cookie’s three-cornered shape represents Haman’s clipped ears. Move past the fact that a poppy-seed filling seems like the ear hair (YIKES) and these cookies are a wonderful treat and…
DetailsIngredients 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 ¼ cups quick cooking oats 1/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup light brown sugar ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup chopped pecans 1 and ½ sticks unsalted butter, softened 1 cup rasberry preserves Directions 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 inch square…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— When an earlier Secretary of State before Hillary Clinton, namely Condoleezza Rice, arrived several times in Jerusalem she pressured the then weak and embattled Israeli government of Ehud Olmert into continuing the dreary and one sided exercise of concessions to the Palestinian Arabs. The futile peace process, which has…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 32:3–36, 43 “Vayishlach” (…and he sent…) Haftorah: Obadiah 1:1–21 New Testament: Hebrews 11:11–20 Gospel: Matthew 26:36–46 “Chen ba Yeshuah” ( Then came Jesus …)
DetailsBy DANIEL MCCABE— “God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.” 1 Corinthians 1:27 Sometimes its “four eyes” or “freckle face.” Sometimes its “fatso” or “big nose.” We’ve all heard a little more of that during our childhood than we might care to discuss. Even…
DetailsIn response to Hamas’ ongoing rocket fire against Israel, Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense on Nov. 14, 2012, aimed at crippling the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. On Nov. 21, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. This video was one of many broadcast by Hamas during the conflict, as part of their campaign to…
DetailsBy REUTERS– Iran will continue enriching uranium “with intensity”, with the number of enrichment centrifuges it has operating to increase substantially in the current year, the country’s nuclear energy chief was quoted as saying on Wednesday. The comments by Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, signaled continued defiance by Iran in the…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Is it peace with Israel the Palestinians want or pieces of Israel the Palestinians want? Obviously the answer is pieces as in breaking Israel apart and dividing the spoil among the blood thirsty radicals who are constantly seeking Israel’s destruction. Israel’s long-suffering patience finally reached a breaking point recently as…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Thursday that the Palestinian bid for U.N. recognition, which is expected to be approved by a majority in the U.N. General Assembly, “will not change a thing, and certainly won’t hasten the establishment of a Palestinian state.” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was to speak at the…
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