By MICHAEL OREN, WSJ— How in 40 years the Jewish state went from inspiring underdog to supposed oppressor. This year Israel is celebrating . . . a series of accomplishments that have surely exceeded the expectations of its most visionary founders. It is one of the most powerful small nations in history. . . .…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY– A Hebrew University archeologist says finds at a new dig site near Jerusalem are backing up the biblical narrative of an Israelite kingdom centered on Jerusalem in 1000 BC, around the time of King David and his son, King Solomon. Professor Yosef Garfinkel has been digging at Khirbet Qeiyafa near…
DetailsBY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Israel has decided to search for oil on the Golan Heights after 20 years of delay due to objections from Syria, according to Globes, which quoted the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharanoth. After Israel formally took sovereignty over the strategic area in 1980, the Petroleum Act was applied to…
DetailsBY TRAVELUJAH— A group of eight Hollywood TV and film stars completed a week-long tour of Israel Sunday as guests of Israel’s Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. The star-studded group included Anna Lynne McCord (“90210” , “Nip & Tuck”), Omar Epps (“House”), Paul Johansson (“One Tree Hill”), Holly…
DetailsThe Israeli Salad makes a critical appearance at almost every meal in Israel, including breakfast. Its the base that so many Israeli meals are built on. You can eat it plain but its most commonly stuffed in a pita with some humus, labneh, or falafel. It took me years before I could chop the vegetables as…
DetailsThe Israeli Salad makes a critical appearance at almost every meal in Israel, including breakfast. Its the base that so many Israeli meals are built on. You can eat it plain but its most commonly stuffed in a pita with some humus, labneh, or falafel. It took me years before I could chop the vegetables…
DetailsBY JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY, JTA.ORG— The U.S House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that reaffirms and enhances U.S. policy commitments to Israel’s security. The United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, which was sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), passed by a…
DetailsBY REZA KAHLILI, WND— Iranian outlets have been claiming recently the United States has been forced to bow before Iran on its nuclear program, demonstrating the West’s abandonment of Israel and paving the way for the Islamic regime to annihilate the Jewish state. While restating that Iran will demand ever more in the upcoming second…
DetailsWhat is Shavuot? Shavuot—also known as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost—is a Jewish holiday celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments and the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). When God delivered the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt he brought them into the wilderness to camp. During this time God provided for…
DetailsBY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— The Coliseum, where thousands upon thousands of “Judaeis” have been massacred by the Roman emperors, became for one night an arena for alliance between Christians and Jews against “odium fidei,” or religious hatred. Last Wednesday in Rome, Jewish leaders for the first time rallied alongside Christians in a candlelit vigil to…
DetailsFilm about Theodor Herzl featuring the important events in his life. The film was made in honor of the centenary of his birth.
Film about Theodor Herzl featuring the important events in his life. The film was made in honor of the centenary of his birth.
BY VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— I have never been an admirer of the CBS program, Sixty Minutes: Too liberal and left leaning for my taste. But, in particular, I have always felt that its veteran reporter, Bob Simon, had a problem. Simon has lived so much of the time in the safety of journalist…
DetailsBy MICHAEL MEDVED, COMMENTARY— Many Jewish voters this November will find themselves at a crossroads: Will they accept their deep disappointment with Barack Obama and vote for his reelection, or will they overcome their own discomfort with Christian evangelicals and vote for the Republican candidate? The irrepressible argument about the appropriate relationship between the Jewish…
Details“For the circle is perfect and infinite in its nature; but it is fixed for ever in its size; it can never be larger or smaller. But the cross, though it has at its heart a collision and a contradiction, can extend its four arms for ever without altering its shape. Because it has a…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In all of our many conversations that took place over the better part of the past decade, I never asked Prof. Benzion Netanyahu what led him to become an historian. Certainly it was a function of his concern for his nation and his recognition that our very existence hung in the…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “B’har” (On the mount …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: II Corinthians 1:18 – 22 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Al Natzraat” (To Nazareth …)
DetailsThink on this: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman: That is detestable.”…”Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for…
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