By MICHAEL BARONE, TOWNHALL— In Libya, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three colleagues were murdered Tuesday. Earlier that day, protesters in Egypt stormed the U.S. embassy and tore down the American flag. It was “the day the roof fell in,” proclaimed blogger and historian Walter Russell Mead. Barack Obama’s “efforts to reconcile the U.S. and…
DetailsBy REUTERS— Supporters of the Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah are set to hit the streets of Beirut on Monday after its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for protests against a film that portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer and a fool. Lebanon has already seen protests over the Internet video in the mainly Sunni…
DetailsBy MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the onset of Rosh Hashana, it is difficult to recall the last time that the High Holy Day season seemed as rife with so much uncertainty. Indeed, the coming months promise to be fateful ones, as Israel grapples on several fronts with momentous strategic and diplomatic challenges whose repercussions will…
Details“Tzimmes” in Yiddish means “big deal” but don’t let that scare you because actually this dish is difficult to mess up. Tzimmes are often served during the Jewish high holidays, particularly during Rosh Hashanah since honey is the holiday’s grand symbol for a sweet new year. They are also useful at Passover since they are…
Details“Tzimmes” in Yiddish means “big deal” but don’t let that scare you because actually this dish is difficult to mess up. Tzimmes are often served during the Jewish high holidays, particularly during Rosh Hashanah since honey is the holiday’s grand symbol for a sweet new year. They are also useful at Passover since they are…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— As he suffocated to death at the US Consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did US Ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered? From what we have learned of this man since he was killed, it…
DetailsBy REUTERS— A platoon of US Marines from with the fleet anti-terrorism security team have been sent to Yemen to bolster security at the embassy and are now on the ground in Sanaa, the Pentagon said on Friday. Elsewhere in the region, protesters against a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad breached embassy walls in Tunisia…
Details“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…
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