Scripture reading for March 24, 2012
Torah: Leviticus 1:1-6:7 “Vayikra” (And he called …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18 New Testament: Hebrews 10:1-18 Gospel: John 1:29-34 “Lemachrat” (The next day …)
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Good night, you prince of Judah, you king of Israel
*The latest paiting in the Auschwitz Album Series. Just released today! From the artist Pat Mercer Hutchens: Many times I heard my mother say, “Always remember when you speak to a child – you never know who you are talking to.” She would go on to say something like “You may be speaking to a…
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Netanyahu condemns 'loathsome murder of Jews' in France
BY GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to a shooting incident outside of a French Jewish school on Monday, calling the attack “a loathsome murder of Jews, which included small children.” Speaking at a Likud faction meeting, Netanyahu said that it was too soon to say what the background of the attack in…
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Living with Missile attacks
BY RON JAGER— Future historians will be baffled as to why we the Israeli public have become so accepting of such a manifestly disastrous policy of deterrence against the terror organizations operating in Gaza, who fire their rockets at will on Southern Israel turning the save haven of our homes into self-imposed protective prisons. These…
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Iran threatens N. Israel with bombardment from Lebanon
BY DEBKAFILE— Tehran has begun capitalizing on its allies’ two perceived victories: Bashar Assad’s success in seizing Idlib from rebel hands and the Palestinian Jihad Islami’s triumphal missile assault from Gaza. The Iranians are now moving forward with plans to match the Palestinian assault on southern Israel with an offensive on the north from Lebanon.…
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Israel and Gaza in the New Middle East
BY SAMARA GREENBERG, inCONTEXT— Israel’s south found some respite from rocket fire this week after four days of unrelenting attacks from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. All is not quiet, however, as Gaza’s militants continue to launch rockets sporadically at Israeli towns, forcing Israel to counterattack, despite the Egyptian-brokered truce that unofficially ended the…
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Putting Israel's home front at risk
BY MICHAEL FREUND— Yesterday, more than 265,000 children across southern Israel returned to school after enduring several days of Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. However unappealing the tedium of the classroom may be for many of them, most are nonetheless surely happy that the risk of attack has dissipated, at least for now. Indeed, scenes…
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Obama’s words disguise his Israel foreign policy actions
BY EARL COX— President Barack Obama challenged Americans and Israel to judge him by his deeds, not his words, when it comes to US-Israel relations. If we are to do so, the conclusion can only be that the president is taking a very dangerous path for both America and its top ally in the Middle…
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Israel strikes oil off Tel Aviv coast
BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Israel has struck oil again, this time off the Tel Aviv coast. Developers maintain the find includes 100 million barrels of oil, worth $10 billion. Modiin Energy and Adira Energy discovered an estimated 128 million barrels of oil and 1.8 trillion cubic feet of gas in their Gabriella and…
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Koshering Jesus More
BY PAUL DE VRIES, NY DIVINITY SCHOOL— “Please remember that Jesus is a Jew,” I said to my Jewish colleagues at our Jewish-Evangelical Roundtable in late December 2011. Then, to the Christian participants, I said, “Please remember that without Hanukkah, there would have been no Christmas.” For the next three weeks we Jews and Christians…
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Arab church that backs Israel shuttered by Palestinian Authority
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— The First Baptist Church in Bethlehem was ordered closed by the Palestinian Authority on Saturday, according to Rabbi Russell Resnik of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations. Resnik reported the incident after meeting with Pastor Steven Khoury, the son of First Baptist’s head pastor, Naim Khoury. “Steven told me that…a…
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Iran's War in Gaza
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, FOREIGN POLICY— Israeli jets pounded the Gaza Strip on March 12 in the latest volley of fire since violence broke out late last week. But they were not fighting Hamas, Israel’s traditional bête noire in Gaza. Though radical factions have now fired more than 200 rockets into Israel, the self-described Islamic Resistance…
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They murder and so we build
BY VICTOR SHARPE— One year ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wanted to hear the world, or at least the allegedly civilized Western world, condemn in emphatic words of sincere condemnation the barbaric slaughter of a Jewish family – the Fogels – a vile crime perpetrated by Arabs calling themselves Palestinians. But the Prime Minister needn’t…
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Just one bomb
BY VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— The silence in the mainstream media was deafening. Silence about what? Well simply put. The Palestinians launched a massive missile barrage against southern Israeli cities, towns and villages. These communities endured for several days a barrage from the Gaza Strip of well over 200 lethal missiles aimed deliberately by Palestinian…
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Koshering Jesus More
BY PAUL DE VRIES, NY DIVINITY SCHOOL— “Please remember that Jesus is a Jew,” I said to my Jewish colleagues at our Jewish-Evangelical Roundtable in late December 2011. Then, to the Christian participants, I said, “Please remember that without Hanukkah, there would have been no Christmas.” For the next three weeks we Jews and Christians…
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BY DAVID BARTON, WALL BUILDERS— When one observes President Obama’s unwillingness to accommodate America’s four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Catholic. But that characterization would not be correct. Although he has recently singled out…
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B'tayavon: Zucchini bread (light)
*This bread recipe is healthy, counts as a veggie serving, and very moist. You can’t loose, except for maybe inches. B’tayavon! Ingredients 1 whole egg plus 2 egg whites, whipped 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2/3 cup nonfat plain yogurt 1 tablespoon vanilla 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon cinnamon 2 teaspoon soda…
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