By PHILIPE ASSOULINE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— I first met Boshra Khalaila in the Spring of 2010, at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy’s offices in Jerusalem. She was 24 at the time. Like me, she’d been alarmed by the public relations debacle that followed the Gaza flotilla incident and had somehow found her way to the…
Details“It is manifestly right that the scattered Jews should have a national center and a national home and be reunited, and where else but in Palestine, with which for 3,000 years they have been intimately and profoundly associated.” –Winston Churchill, 1920
JCPA and Jewish Groups Pull Plug on Longstanding Dialogue After Church Israel Letter Cancelling an interfaith dialogue meeting, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and other Jewish groups have called for a summit with the heads of Jewish organizations that have been engaged in the roundtable and the heads of the Christian denominations that penned…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— A little more than a week ago, I ascended the Temple Mount together with a group of more than 50 Jews from Ra’anana’s Ohel Ari synagogue. Needless to say, all of us immersed in a mikva (ritual bath) prior to the trip, refrained from wearing leather shoes, and walked only in…
DetailsBy MARY GRABAR, FRONTPAGEMAG— Will textbook editors rush to include Mitt Romney’s foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute last Monday, as they have with Obama’s speeches and autobiographical writing? It’s very doubtful. Speeches by conservatives and Republican political leaders appear, if at all, as tokens, and are usually surrounded by material that puts…
DetailsWelcome to B’tayavon by Shelley Neese View our expanding list of Israeli recipes In June 2000 I married my college sweetheart. We had a big wedding in Moss Bluff, Louisiana at the church my father pastored for thirty years. Three weeks later—barely getting the “just married” scribble off our car—we packed everything we could in…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 6:9 — 11:32 “Noach” (Noah) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 — 55:5 New Testament: I Peter 3:18 — 22 Gospel: John 3:1 — 21 “Nachdimom” (Nicodmus)
DetailsBy NAOMI REGAN, naomiregan.com— Dear G: — We have known each other so many years, meeting first through emails that I sent out in support of Israel during that terrible time of senseless terror brought on by the so-called “peace” accords of Oslo. You were a great lover of Israel who fought to bring the…
DetailsBy Rabbi, Bernhard Rosenberg, ISRAPUNDIT — It should serve as a wake up call for all Jews and Christians who express love for America and Israel. To My Fellow Rabbis: I write to you at this time of dire trouble for our country and for Israel. A couple of weeks ago, America was under attack.…
DetailsOne of the least understood, yet most intriguing and stated purposes of Jesus, is this: “to create in himself, one new man.” (Ephesians 2:15) This begs the question: Who is the One New Man that Jesus the Messiah intended to create in himself? How can one recognize him? Is the One New Man Jewish or…
DetailsBy ISI LEIBLER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The recent initiative by a group of Protestant Christian leaders calling on Congress to re-evaluate military aid to Israel is a nauseating example of applying double standards against Jews and Israel under the cloak of piety and hypocritical sanctimoniousness. The signatories include leaders of the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and National…
DetailsBy GULF TIMES— Iran has long sought to play down the effects of international sanctions on its economy but the economic crisis engulfing the country can no longer be denied. The regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now talks of an “economic war” but Iranians are beginning to panic about the deteriorating situation and are asking…
DetailsBY AFP— Cameron said in a speech to the United Jewish Israel Appeal in London that a military strike against sites in Iran would only serve to rally the Iranian people around the regime at a time when the sanctions were starting to bite. But he warned the Iranians that if they failed to halt…
DetailsBY ISRAEL HAYOM— U.S. exports to Iran rose by nearly a third this year, chiefly because of grain sales, according to U.S. data released last week, despite the tightening of U.S. financial sanctions. The jump to $199.5 million in the first eight months of 2012 from $150.8 million a year earlier, according to Census Bureau…
DetailsBy TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU— The IDF has drawn lines around land that will be used to absorb a potential flood of Syrian refugees fleeing from the civil war, and prevent a spillover of violence into Israel, Voice of Israel government radio reported. Military sources said the areas were designated “in cooperation with the United Nations…
DetailsThe Jerusalem Connection has started a collection of original coloring pages for our For Kids section. Check these out. They are super cute. Shavuot: Moses and the Ten Commandments Hanukkah: Judah the Maccabee Purim: Queen Esther Passover: The parting of the Red Sea
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— If you follow me, you will not walk in darkness” (John 8:12). These are the actual words of Jesus when he was on this earth. Think of it. Here he gives us the answer to darkness, to blind groping in the dark.…
Details
