BY TRAVELUJAH (SIGN UP FOR THE ISRAEL TRAVEL NEWSLETTER)— The period preceding the Jewish New Year is marked by special penitential prayers, recited before the regular morning prayers, and the blowing of the ram’s horn (shofar in Hebrew) after the morning prayer service. Jews of North African and Middle Eastern origin began to recite these…
DetailsBY TRAVELUJAH (SIGN UP FOR THE ISRAEL TRAVEL NEWSLETTER)— The period preceding the Jewish New Year is marked by special penitential prayers, recited before the regular morning prayers, and the blowing of the ram’s horn (shofar in Hebrew) after the morning prayer service. Jews of North African and Middle Eastern origin began to recite these special…
DetailsBY LESLIE HORN, PC MAGAZINE— The Dead Sea Scrolls have made their way online some 2,000 years after they were written through a partnership between Google and Israel’s national museum. The important documents are available in searchable, high-resolution images, accompanied by informative videos, background information, and historical data. So far five of the scrolls have…
DetailsBY DAVID RUBIN— There has been a noticeable shift in Jewish perceptions of President Barack Obama in recent days, with several op-eds noting his comments at the UN and his intention to vote against and even veto the State of Palestine proposal as being a big improvement in his relationship with Israel. But is it…
DetailsBY GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE— In recent years three nuclear specialists in Iran have died in targeted killings, the Stuxnet malware caused Iranian uranium enrichment equipment to malfunction, and the nation’s Bushehr atomic energy facility hit significant technical obstacles in its startup phase. In addition, numerous blasts have targeted gas channels in the Middle Eastern state.…
DetailsDANIEL GREENFIELD — SULTAN KNISH– In the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section, a story asks; ‘Judaism without God? Yes, say American atheists’. You can have Judaism without G-d, much as you can have an “On Faith” section without anything to have faith in. It’s all a matter of definition. If you define Judaism by its…
DetailsBY ROBIN SAMPSON, HEART OF WISDOM— The blowing of trumpets is a sign of the return of Christ and memorial of God’s grace to Abraham when He substituted a ram to be sacrificed instead of Isaac (Gen. 22). Isaac is a type of foreshadowing of Christ. Just as Abraham offered his son on the altar,…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Abortion. When one thinks of the many dangers and threats facing Israel, abortion is not usually on the list. But it should be. Since Israel’s rebirth as a nation state 63 years ago, 40,000 Israeli babies have been lost to abortion on average every year. That’s well over two million…
DetailsBY JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— In a fiery, no holds barred speech on September 23, 2011 to the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presented Palestine’s formal application for full membership to the United Nations. Although he was speaking on the first day of fall, Abbas proclaimed that the “Palestinian Spring” had arrived, which…
DetailsBY ARNOLD AHLERT, CANADA FREE PRESS— Shortly before taking the podium to address the United Nations’ General Assembly last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said everything the world needs to know about where the so-called peace process is headed. Speaking to an assembly of 200 senior representatives of the Palestinian community in the United…
DetailsBy TOVAH LAZAROFF IN NEW YORK AND JPOST.COM STAFF Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he is not sure Israel and the United States will be able to enlist enough votes against the Palestinian application for UN membership in order to prevent it from coming to a vote in the UN Security Council, Israel Radio reported…
DetailsJONATHAN TOBIN — COMMENTARY— The media is already treating the dueling speeches today at the United Nations General Assembly by Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as morally equivalent. But such a view of these addresses would be dead wrong. To put it bluntly, Abbas lied, and Netanyahu told the truth.…
DetailsLadies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we have made peace.…
DetailsBY BEN HARTMAN, JPOST— More than a thousand people crowded a parking lot in Kiryat Arba on Sunday evening, to bid farewell to Asher Hillel Palmer and his infant son, Yonatan, who died when their car overturned on Route 60 outside Kiryat Arba on Friday, in what police and the army suspect was a terror…
DetailsBY YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNET— Former US President Bill Clinton is blaming the failure of the peace process with the Palestinians on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yearning for leaders of the past, Clinton said, “The two great tragedies in modern Middle Eastern politics, which make you wonder if God wants Middle East peace or not, were…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— The Palestinian statehood bid provided a platform for many views and positions regarding the Middle East, including those of Evangelical Christians who no longer believe in the validity of the promises contained in the Bible. In the run-up to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas officially requesting UN membership for the “State…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ 7— Those of you who saw Bibi’s speech at the UN – that Temple of Hypocrisy and Moral Turpitude – will have noticed the polite but tepid applause from a few along with the deafening silence from oh, so many of the international delegates. I fear that calling, nay begging, for…
DetailsBY DAVID NEKRUTMAN– The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation’s Executive Director, David Nekrutman, addressed thousands of Korean Christians celebrating Israel in front of Seoul City Hall last Tuesday. “People like you and others who have personally touched my life have shown me a world where Christians are indeed our ‘Watchmen on the Wall,’” Nekrutman…
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