Scripture Reading for April 14, 2012
Torah: Leviticus 9:1-11:47 “Sh’mini” (Eighth) Haftorah: II Samuel 6:1-7:17 New Testament: Acts 10:9-22, 34-35 Gospel: John 13:1-17 “Yeshua yadah” (Jesus knew)
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B'tayavon: Israel Independence Day Cake
Ingredients 2 rolls (16.5 oz each) refrigerated sugar cookie dough 2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, very softened 1 cup confectioners’ sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 carton (8 ounces) whipped topping 3 to 4 cups blueberries 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup orange juice 1/4 cup pineapple juice Directions 1) Preheat…
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Video: Cry no more
Official music video from the title song of Yaakov Shwekey’s new album.
Sacred Season: Passover and Eucharist
BY RABBI DR. GERALD MEISTER, TRAVELUJAH— In the liturgical narrative of the Seder of Passover night, we are solemnly instructed that “in every generation each must regard himself as though personally coming out of Egypt.” The exodus from Egypt, the Passover, is not a one- time event, but the beginning of a continuing process even…
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A tale of two civil wars
BY ALAN W. DOWD, FRONTPAGMAG— The Syrian civil war is now more than a year old. The Syrian army has killed some 10,000 people—and counting. Although Damascus has made promises about ceasefires and diplomatic settlements, it’s not in Bashar Assad’s DNA to countenance any challenge to his rule. Recall that his father slaughtered 20,000 Syrians…
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Obama: 'Judge me by where my heart lies'
BY EARL COX, JPOST— US President Barack Obama’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) challenged people to judge him by his deeds, not his words. Once again, it is the rhetoric used in hope of masking the deeds that stands out in a speech that tried to convince supporters of Israel that…
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Sacred Season: Passover and Eucharist
BY RABBI DR. GERALD MEISTER, TRAVELUJAH— In the liturgical narrative of the Seder of Passover night, we are solemnly instructed that “in every generation each must regard himself as though personally coming out of Egypt.” The exodus from Egypt, the Passover, is not a one- time event, but the beginning of a continuing process even…
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Beating Obama
BY RON JAGER— The past two weeks will go down as the worst weeks of the Obama presidency. Obama managed to embarrass himself abroad, humiliate himself at home, reinforcing the underlying feeling that he shouldn’t have been elected in the first place, let alone be re-elected later this year. To begin with Obama responded to…
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Quartet to meet in DC, but peace process expectations low
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Senior Quartet representatives will meet in Washington on Wednesday amid little expectation that they will have more luck this time kick-starting direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon and…
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NY Times weaves a Netanyahu-Romney conspiracy tale
BY LEO RENNERT, AMERICAN THINKER— There it is above the fold on the front page of the Sunday, April 8, New York Times, a tale of a long friendship between GOP presidential aspirant Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with insinuations aplenty that it could become an unprecedented and worrisome Israeli influence conduit…
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The Romney Netanyahu friendship
BY MICHAEL BARBARO, NY TIMES— The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel. But in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, briefly but indelibly, in the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both had…
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Dayenu!
The lyrics to traditional passover song Dayenu, meaning “It would have been sufficient…” If He had brought us out from Egypt, and had not carried out judgments against them Dayenu, it would have sufficed us! If He had carried out judgments against them, and not against their idols Dayenu, it would have sufficed us! If…
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Worshipers at Western Wall for priestly blessing
BY JPOST— At least 70,000 people from Israel and abroad gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday for the traditional priestly blessing. The blessing is held at the Kotel – the Hebrew name for the Western Wall – during the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot, and also on Shavuot, and…
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Top Iran army official: No country would dare strike us
BY HAARETZ— No country would dare attack Iran, a top officer in the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Monday, adding that Iranian forces planned to engage in more military drills in order to preserve their combat vigilance. The comments by Mohammad Pakpour, the head of the IRGC’s ground forces, came as Cmdr. Amy…
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Spot Report: How to be unleavened bread
Think on this: “I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered thought the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions…. It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name….I will show the holiness…
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The eternal liberation movement
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Hamas terror boss Fathi Hamad is a notable figure. Hamad is both the director of Hamas’s al-Aksa television station and the terror group’s “minister” of the interior and national security. His double portfolio is a clear expression of the much ignored fact that for terrorists, propaganda is inseparable from violence. Hamad’s…
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Good Friday, Passover services to share church
BY HELEN GRAY, KANSAS CITY STAR— This Friday, members of two religions will commemorate events from their faiths at the same time and the same place. St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park will observe Good Friday at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary, where Jesus’ suffering on the cross will be remembered. And…
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Good Friday, Passover services to share church
BY HELEN GRAY, KANSAS CITY STAR— This Friday, members of two religions will commemorate events from their faiths at the same time and the same place. St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park will observe Good Friday at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary, where Jesus’ suffering on the cross will be remembered. And…
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