“Israel matters in American politics like almost no other country on earth. Well beyond the American Jewish and the Protestant fundamentalist communities, the people and the story of Israel stir some of the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul. The idea of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism is profoundly tied to the idea…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitsavim” (You are standing …) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 13 Gospel: John 3:1 -21 “Hafruseem Nockdemus” (A Pharisee, Nicodemus …)
DetailsBy RON JAGER— “The emperor has no clothes!” That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up. There is much in common between Andersen’s emperor and President Obama; both have no real…
DetailsIDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz extends his best wishes for Rosh Hashanah to the Jewish people in Israel and around the world.
By MARK LANDLER and HELEN COOPER, NY TIMES— President Obama on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to spell out a specific “red line” that Iran could not cross in its nuclear program, a senior administration official said, deepening the divide between the allies over how to deal with Iran’s…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday conveyed Israel’s condolences to the United States over this week’s murders of four consular staff members at the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, noting that no nation knows better than Israel what it is like to deal with such brutal acts of…
DetailsBy YORAM ETTINGER, 1. Rosh Hashanah and the Shofar (ritual ram’s horn) symbolize and commemorate: *The annual reaffirmation of faith in God; *The first human-being, Adam, was created on Rosh Hashanah, the sixth day of Creation, the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrey; *The opening of Noah’s Ark following the flood; *The almost-sacrifice…
DetailsBy DANIEL GREENFIELD, GATESTONE— “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse,” Osama Bin Laden famously said. The deceased mass murderer had a point, even if it wasn’t a very original one. Sentimentalists may admire the horse that lets other horses win so they don’t…
DetailsThink on this: Jesus said: “Interpret the signs of the times.” “We aspire to follow the model of the men Issachar who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.” (Matt 16:3 and I Chron 12:32) Pray on this: Yahweh bless you and keep you Yahweh make his face to shine up on you…
DetailsBy JEAN ZELLER, JEWS FOR JESUS— To those who haven’t heard it, the blast of the shofar is hard to describe in terms other than primitive,” “harsh,” a “bellowing or trumpeting,” and it awakens in the hearer a primitive awareness of a reality beyond himself. It speaks with a commanding, demanding sound. Not a note…
DetailsBy RABBI TULY WEISZ, ISRAEL365— To read more fascinating and inspiring articles about the Shofar, please visit https://israel365.co.il/Home/RoshHashanah# It was 1967 and Israel was confident that the year would pass without more war. Egypt’s Nasser had poor relations with Jordan and besides, Egypt’s defeat at the hands of Israel in 1956 was an embarrassment still fresh…
DetailsBy RABBI TULY WEISZ, ISRAEL365— To read more fascinating and inspiring articles about the Shofar, please visit https://israel365.co.il/Home/RoshHashanah# The Shofar was used as a clarion call at specific moments throughout the Bible. One of the prominent places the Shofar appears is to alert Israel to the Jubilee Year. You shall count for yourself seven cycles of…
DetailsDeuteronomy 8:8 praises the land of Israel for being “a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.” These agricultural products are known as the “seven species.” On the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shvat, the new year for trees, it is custom to eat the seven species. Tu B’Shvat…
DetailsBy EARL COX, CHRISTIAN COALITION— How can the entire world seemingly ignore the realities of the conflict between Israel and her Arab neighbors — including the very real threats to Israel’s existence from radical Islam? Is it just blindness, or is it something much deeper? Have world leaders not learned any lessons from past history? Can they…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— According to 71-year-old French surgeon, Jacques Beres, who co-founded Doctors without Borders and who has recently returned to France from two weeks in the city of Aleppo, Syria’s main commercial center, the rebels there are determined to usher in a worldwide Islamic caliphate: “It’s really something strange to see,” he said. “They…
DetailsBy JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— President Obama may be enjoying a slight, if likely temporary, bounce in the polls this week. But one of the surveys showing him with a lead in a tight race over Mitt Romney also provides a breakdown of the data that confirms predictions that he is losing up to a quarter…
DetailsBy BRUCE THORNTON, FRONTPAGEMAG— Eleven years ago today America was violently awakened to the fact that it was at war. The attacks of 9/11 were the latest gruesome assault in the long conflict between the West and Islam, a war most Americans didn’t know was being waged, a war that had been going on for…
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