Leviticus: The Sound of Liberty

By 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…

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B'tayavon: The Seven Species

Deuteronomy 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…

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The world is blind concerning Israel

By 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…

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Sometimes it is better the devil you know

By 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…

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Eleven years of the same mistake

By 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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Video: 9/11 Tribute

9/11 Tribute: America’s Rise From Tragedy (featuring Everything by Lifehouse) from anberlin_fan on GodTube. It still feels as though the tragedies of September 11 transpired just yesterday–our wounds are still healing, buildings are still under construction and questions are still unanswered. But one thing we can know for certain is the amazing grace we receive…

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Israel to West: 'Follow Canada's lead'

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel this week loudly praised Canada’s decision to cut ties with Iran over its defiant nuclear program. Jerusalem insisted that the only way to prevent armed conflict in the region is for the rest of the West to similarly get a lot more serious about halting the Islamic Republic’s quest…

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Nadarkhani Released, but Iranian Christians Still Persecuted

By BEN COHEN, COMMENTARY— After nearly three years of incarceration in an Iranian jail, where he awaited a death sentence for the charge of apostasy, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was finally released earlier today. The American Center for Law and Justice, an advocacy group that has done extraordinary work in raising Nadarkhani’s profile in the U.S.…

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Christians under attack

By DAVID M. WEINBERG, ISRAEL HAYOM— The shameful hooligans who vandalized the monastery at Latrun last week raised howls of protest worldwide. The ugly attack was covered extensively in just about every newspaper in the world, with a lot of buzz about the supposed brutalization of Israeli society and a radicalization of religious Jewry. Without…

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The "Abomination of Desolation" Identified At Last (By 7 Clues)

By  TIM McHYDE, ESCAPEALLTHINGS.com — Abomination of Desolation? Daniel’s “abomination of desolation” is a very familiar term to most Christians thanks to Jesus’ reference to it in the Gospels. At the same time, it is easily the least understood major prophetic term compared to say the great tribulation, the mark of the beast or even…

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Rosh Hashanah for Kids

What is Rosh Hashanah? Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. In the Hebrew calendar, the fall holiday occurs on the first and second days of the month Tishrei. Rosh Hashanah represents the miraculous creation of the first humans, Adam and Eve. When celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish people gather in synagogues all over the…

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The Seven Species

Deuteronomy 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…

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