By 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…
DetailsBy MELANIE PHILIPS— So now the crisis in relations between President Obama and the state of Israel has finally blown publicly open. On the very anniversary of 9/11, the day when America learned firsthand a little of what Israel has been living through for more than six decades after the enemies of civilization set out…
DetailsA vast Jewish Diaspora was utterly annihilated prior to Israel’s establishment and during her formative years, but Israelis rarely talk about it.
Details9/11 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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.…
DetailsBy 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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