BY GIL COHEN, HAARETZ— Iran and Hezbollah are strengthening their efforts to ensure the survival of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday. “They are providing with knowledge, weapons and other means and recently with active involvement,” Kochavi said. Kochavi also said that the face of…
DetailsBY DAVID LEV, ARUTZ 7— Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of Iranian scientists, a web site identified with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said Thursday – and those responsible had better start staying awake nights, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying. Naming Israel specifically, the Rajah News website said…
DetailsBy ASAF ROMIROWSKY, THE JEWISH EXPONENT — With this year’s National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference set to take place at the University of Pennsylvania in early February, it’s important to understand what the BDS movement is all about and what its ultimate goals are. The movement’s focus is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it specifically…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Whenever a person wants anything too much, immediately he or she becomes restless. People who allow pride and greed to rule their lives never get enough. Coveting and inordinate affections lead to agitation and bondage. However, even a poor person with humility…
DetailsBY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Some three months after being released from Hamas captivity, Gilad Schalit met separately with the ambassadors of Germany and France on Wednesday to thank them for their countries efforts in securing his release. Schalit, surrounded by cameras, went to both countries embassies in Tel Aviv with his father Noam. He presented…
DetailsBY RICK MORAN, AMERICAN THINKER— The official Iranian news agency Fars is calling it a “terrorist attack” and are accusing Israel and the US of carrying out the assassination of an Iranian nuke scientist. The scientist was identified as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a supervisor at the main enrichment facility at Nantanz. And the method was,…
DetailsBY GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Just two weeks after a Temple era seal was displayed to the public, archeologists continue to dig up breathtaking proofs of the ancient and never-severed connection between Jews and the Land of Israel. This time, the find is a 1,500 year old tiny stamp discovered near the city of Akko,…
DetailsBY TRAVELUJAH— The Temple Institute, located in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, is the place to go to learn about the past and future temple. The Institute is both an educational and religious organization focusing on the rebuilding of the temple as well as educating the public on its history. Taking into account…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 1:1 – 6:1 “Shemot” (The names …) Haftorah: Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22 – 23 New Testament: Acts 7:17 – 35 Gospel: John 8:48 – 59 “Hehshevu” (They answered …)
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Truth is what we are to look for when we read the Bible, not clever or interesting words. The Bible should be read in the same spirit in which it was written – a spirit of humility and total dependence on the…
DetailsBy RAPHAEL AHREN, HAARETZ– Rabbi Shmuley Boteach revels in speaking publicly about topics most Orthodox Jews avoid. In 1999, he gained worldwide popularity with his best seller “Kosher Sex.” He has since written more than 20 books, among them “Kosher Adultery” and “The Kosher Sutra.” And while Boteach’s newest work – due to be released…
DetailsBy NAFTALI BENNETT, YNet– Some people claim that the Judea and Samaria public relations effort, which is premised on our historical right in this land, is doomed for failure. This is also the perception that dominates Bible and history, because it’s primitive; rather, we must only explain our security needs and point to the murderous behavior…
DetailsBY AP— Diplomats on Monday confirmed a report that Iran has begun uranium enrichment at an underground bunker and said the news is particularly worrying because the site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation’s main enriched stockpile. The diplomats said…
DetailsBY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Hamas’ Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, promised “difficult days” for Israel on Sunday, AFP reported. Speaking at a rally in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, Haniyeh urged Arab Spring revolutionaries to fight for an independent Palestine. AFP reported that he received an ovation from a crowd of some 5,000 men,…
DetailsBy BARBARA LERNER, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — By now, most Americans know that the “two-state solution” is no solution to the war that supremacist Muslims have been waging against the state of Israel since its rebirth in 1948. Most Americans in public life know it too, but in public, nearly all of them pay lip…
DetailsBY DAVID PARSONS, JPost-Christian Edition — From our vantage point in Jerusalem, it seems that the Christian Zionist movement is constantly gaining new recruits from all over the world. Pro-Israel Christians can now be found in the millions on all continents, and even amid the current turmoil of the Middle East more and more Arab…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— On the eve of the Second World War, Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel’s first president, wrote the following about the persecutions taking place in Nazi Germany: It would require the eloquence of a Jeremiah to picture the horrors, the human anguish, of this new Destruction and of a…
DetailsBY DAVID PARSONS, JPost-Christian Edition — From our vantage point in Jerusalem, it seems that the Christian Zionist movement is constantly gaining new recruits from all over the world. Pro-Israel Christians can now be found in the millions on all continents, and even amid the current turmoil of the Middle East more and more Arab…
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