Weekly Scripture Reading for March 3, 2012
Torah: Exodus 27:20-30:10 “Tetzaveh” (You shall command…) Haftorah: Ezekiel 43:10-27 New Testament: Hebrews 13:10-17 Gospel: Mark 10:32-34 “Badereck” (On the road…)
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PM expected to 'break new ground' in AIPAC speech
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for Canada and the US late Thursday night for a visit that – unlike previous trips to Washington and meetings with US President Barack Obama that focused on the Palestinians – is expected this time to center on Iran. Government sources said Netanyahu…
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BY RUTH WISSE, WALL STREET JOURNAL— In 1948, when the Arab League declared war on Israel, no one imagined that six decades later American universities would become its overseas agency. Yet campus incitement against Israel has been growing from California to the New York Island. A conference at Harvard next week called “Israel/Palestine and the…
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Dempsey: I didn't counsel Israel against Iran strike
BY YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNET— Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin Dempsey told a Senate panel on Tuesday he did not counsel Israel against attacking Iran over its nuclear program. “We’ve had a conversation with them about time, the issue of time,” he said. Dempsey was referring to his most recent…
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Israel won't warn US before Iran strike
BY KIMBERLY DOZIER, AP— Israeli officials say they won’t warn the US if they decide to launch a preemptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one US intelligence official familiar with the discussions. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations, sets a tense tone ahead of meetings in the coming days…
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B'tayavon: Kibbeh
Kibbeh is a popular appetizer in Israel. Made out of bulgur and minced meat, kibbeh is fried and oblong-shaped. The first time I tasted kibbeh it reminded me of the fried boudin balls I grew up eating at the local gas station in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In its own weird way, eating kibbeh in Beer…
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Kibbeh
Kibbeh is a popular appetizer in Israel. Made out of bulgur and minced meat, kibbeh is fried and oblong-shaped. The first time I tasted kibbeh it reminded me of the fried boudin balls I grew up eating at the local gas station in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In its own weird way, eating kibbeh in Beer…
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Learning the lessons of tomorrow
BY RON JAGER— During the past two weeks, my visit to America has brought me to Texas, and to New York. Two entirely different regions, representing the very essence of America’s vast pluralistic ethnic make-up. Yet, what seemed to unify the many different cultural and ethnic expectations of these good and decent people was the…
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Hamas and Fatah Want a New Intifada
BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, STONEGATE— To avoid Palestinians erupting against both Fatah and Hamas, the two parties are working to direct the heat toward Israel. Hamas and Fatah have lately ratcheted up their rhetoric against Israel in a clear bid to distract attention from their failure to end their power struggle. By backing a “popular…
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Call to action against Israel Apartheid Week
We at The Jerusalem Connection are asking all of our readers to stay alert to the coming events during Israel Apartheid Week in cities or college towns near you. Send letters to your editor. Join the pro-Israel groups that will be “protesting the protest.” Do the opposite of boycotts and sanctions. Buy Israeli products this week! …
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Spot Report: Five reasons why the Apartheid analogy is fatally flawed
Think on This: “He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind.” I Samuel 15:29 Do This: We at The Jerusalem Connection are asking all of our readers to stay alert to the coming events during Israel Apartheid…
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Obama to face tense meeting on Iran with Netanyahu
By JEREMY HERB & AMIE PARNES, The Hill– When President Obama sits down face-to-face with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week to discuss Iran, he will be staring down the greatest challenge on Israel he’s faced during his presidency. It is the first time Obama has met Netanyahu since last spring, when the Israeli…
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Christians who hate Jews
By GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET– A few weeks ago a highly influential Church of England vicar, Stephen Sizer, promoted a website that supports Holocaust denial and warns of a Zionist conspiracy controlling the world. Reverend Sizer just received the support of the Bishop of Guildford Sizer, Reverend Christopher Hill, a former chaplain to the Queen, following…
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B'tayavon: Maple Oat Bars
*If you are going to make a dessert tonight, you might as well use one of the Seven Species! Ingredients 12 ounces finely chopped pitted dates ¾ cup water ⅓ cup maple syrup 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind ⅔ cup sugar ½ cup butter, softened 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup oats ¼ teaspoon baking soda…
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My gracious God, I bless you that you have given me the eye of faith, to see you as Father, to know your name as Yahweh, to experience your love planted in me; For faith is the grace of union by which I spell out my entitlement to you: Faith casts my anchor upwards where…
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Obama and Israel: The Silence of 'Friends'
BY ROBERT M. GOLDBERG, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR— Oscar Wilde noted “true friends stab you in the front.” Which explains why President Obama– the self-proclaimed “best friend Israel ever had” — has decided to cut funding for the Jewish state’s missile defense system at the same time he wants to restore funding to UNESCO. (Israel’s best…
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