BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel’s Home Front Command on Thursday held a nationwide drill simulating missile attacks on the Jewish state, just days after a report indicated that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were preparing for war. Air raid sirens blared in Jerusalem and across northern Israel Thursday morning in a test of the warning system.…
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DetailsBY DEBKAFILE— Iran exhibited the top-secret US stealth drone RQ-170 Sentinel captured on Sunday, Dec. 4. Its almost perfect condition confirmed Tehran’s claim that the UAV was downed by a cyber attack, meaning it was not shot down but brought in undamaged by an electronic warfare ambush. This is a major debacle for the stealth…
DetailsBY DoDBUZZ— Iran is a national security problem that never seems to go away and pops up everywhere you look. The Iranians say they’ve captured a secret American spy drone. The Iranians are meddling in Iraq. The Russians are mad about the European missile defense system — which the U.S. and its allies want to…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 32:3–36:43 “Vayishlach” (Jacob sent …) Haftorah: Obadiah 1:1–21 New Testament: Hebrews 11:11–20 Gospel: Matthew 26:36–46 “Ba Yeshua” (Jesus came …)
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— In the North African desert during the summer of 1942, a pivotal battle of the Second World War took place between the German Afrika Corps under Erwin Rommel and the British and Commonwealth troops under Bernard Montgomery. The site of the battle was an oasis called El Alamein, which lay…
DetailsBY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— In the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, the hardline Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party won 36.6 percent of the vote — a plurality — and the even harder-line Salafist party, Al-Nour, won 24.4 percent. The Egyptian Bloc — a coalition of liberal, social-democratic, and secular parties — drew only…
DetailsThe Jerusalem Connection Report has a popular section JUST FOR KIDS to teach all things about the Biblical feasts and festivals! This site is a great resource to learn everything about Jewish celebrations. This year we have just released a special section for Hanukkah. In 2011, Hanukkah begins on December 20th and lasts until December…
DetailsSUNDAY, DEC. 11, 2011 – FROM 11 AM – NOON – OPPOSITE THE ISRAELI CONSULATE – SECOND AVE. & 42ND STREET, NYC PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND – INVITE FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, ALL LOVERS OF A WHOLE ISRAEL TO JOIN YOU – Speakers will include grass roots leaders who are not afraid to criticize the Israeli…
DetailsBY FRANK GAFFNEY, JR., CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY— The Egyptian elections have resulted in a rout for the throngs whose springtime hopes for freedom are facing the prospect of a nuclear winter at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow Salafists. These Islamists appear to have garnered at least 60 percent of the…
DetailsBY JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, INTL CHRISTIAN ZIONIST CENTER— How heartwarming and deeply moving it is to read or hear accounts of those ‘righteous gentile believers’ who, out of their love for God and His people, dared to stand up for and help Jewish people at a time when this often meant risking their…
DetailsBY JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, INTL CHRISTIAN ZIONIST CENTER— How heartwarming and deeply moving it is to read or hear accounts of those ‘righteous gentile believers’ who, out of their love for God and His people, dared to stand up for and help Jewish people at a time when this often meant risking their…
DetailsBY DAVID HORNIK, FRONTPAGEMAG— Worried about losing some of the Jewish vote for 2012, President Obama has been sweet-talking American Jews lately and making some staunchly pro-Israel statements. In September he told the UN General Assembly: Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— With vote tallies in for Egypt’s first round of parliamentary elections in it is abundantly clear that Egypt is on the fast track to becoming a totalitarian Islamic state. The first round of voting took place in Egypt’s most liberal, cosmopolitan cities. And still the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists received…
DetailsBY REUTERS— Iran seems to be in possession of the same RQ-170 drone that the Iranian military said it shot down Sunday, Fox News reported Monday according to American military sources. US officials failed to say whether or not Iranians shot the unmanned spy plane down, as per Iranian reports. Iran on Sunday said that…
DetailsBY STAN GOODENOUGH— Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find…
DetailsBY JENNIFER RUBIN, WASHINGTON POST— Just when you think that the Obama administration hasn’t annoyed the American Jewish community quite enough or publicly insulted our democratic ally Israel sufficiently, along comes an administration figure willing to stick his finger in the eye of the Jewish state. On Friday, that task fell to Defense Secretary Leon…
DetailsBY MICHAEL RUBIN, NATIONAL REVIEW— For almost a third of a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran has confounded American presidents. It has taken hostages, conducted terrorism, undermined the Middle East peace process, and worked unrelentingly to become a nuclear power and develop missiles with global reach. Tehran might frustrate American officials, but its tactics…
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