Charles H. Spurgeon and the restoration of IsraelCharles Spurgeon is one of history’s most influential orators and theologians. Though he died 56 years before the birth of the modern state of Israel, the return of the Jews to the land of their covenant was something he foretold many times in his sermons Stuffed TomatoesThe word…
DetailsThe 9th of Av has historically been a tragic day for the Jewish people. However, this day will ultimately become a day of joy and celebration. Yishai Fleisher explores the origin and meaning of the 9th of Av in this original short film. He emphasizes the special hope for the future born in the current…
DetailsThink on this! “I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will nost assuredly plant them in this land withall my…
DetailsBY ARIEH O’SULLIVAN, THE MEDIA LINE— Diplomatic momentum is building on the Bashar Assad regime as it ratchets up its four-month military crackdown, but the Syrian president shows no signs of being in the mood to listen, analysts say. “Whether he is in a mood to listen or not doesn’t matter. Everyone else is in…
DetailsBY NAVIT ZOMER, YNET— Israeli exports to China totaled more than $1 billion in the first half of 2011 – a 33% increase compared to the same period last year. China is ranked fourth on the list of Israel’s export destinations – up six spots compared to 2009. The number of exporters to China has…
DetailsAs the Bible said it would, Jerusalem has become a cup of controversy on the global stage today (Zech. 12:2-3). RIGHT NOW… there are increasing threats from many nations against God’s covenant city, there are escalating tensions surrounding the inhabitants of the land of Israel, and there are ever-increasing global repercussions for all mankind because…
Detailsby YORAM ETTINGER — Israel HaYom — Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Palestinian issue is not a primary Middle East concern. Pro-Western oil-producing Persian Gulf leaders are traumatized by the lethal Iranian nuclear threat, by a raging Arab street of their own and by a potential Iraqi earthquake in the aftermath of the U.S. troop…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In the wake of Anders Breivik’s massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the Right. Just hours after Breivik’s identity was reported, leftist media outlets…
DetailsBY FRANK GAFFNEY— As the nation mourns the loss in combat of thirty of its military heroes – including 22 members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 – in Afghanistan over the weekend, the question inevitably occurs: What are we fighting for that justifies this latest among so much sacrifice in that distant, backwards…
DetailsBY JONATHAN SCHANZER, NY POST– Palestinian leaders are publicly calling for nonviolence in massive protests planned for next month — but another intifada may well be in the cards. The Palestinian Authority seeks UN recognition of it as a state — a resolution that America is expected to veto, based on the belief that Palestinian…
DetailsThe 9th of Av has historically been a tragic day for the Jewish people. However, this day will ultimately become a day of joy and celebration. Yishai Fleisher explores the origin and meaning of the 9th of Av in this original short film. He emphasizes the special hope for the future born in the current…
DetailsBY ZE’EV JABOTINSKY, AFSI— As this day of mourning, Tisha B’Av, approaches, it is fitting to read the words of a great prophet and Zionist, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, as he pleaded with the Jews of Poland 73 years ago to save themselves from the certain death that Hitler was planning for them. In addition to seeing…
DetailsBY ARUTZ 7— The fast of Tisha B’Av, the “saddest” day in the Jewish calendar, begins Monday evening at sundown and ends Tuesday night. Its name literally means “the ninth day of Av,” the date of some of the gravest tragedies to have befallen the Jewish People. Tisha B’Av is a day of lamentations that…
DetailsBY SARA DEBBIE GUTFREUND, AISH— For the past few weeks I have been walking around in a daze. The terrible tragedy of Leiby Kletzky’s death feels like a constant loss wherever I turn. Last Shabbos a neighbor’s nine-year-old boy came to pick up his little sister from our house. And he looked exactly like the…
DetailsBY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Israel is prepared to make concessions, but the Palestinians have shown no indication of a willingness on their own for compromise, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday to a group of 18 ambassadors to Washington from Asian, European, African and Latin American countries who don’t usually vote for Israel at the UN.…
DetailsBY GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Exciting finds, including an intact Roman era sword and a stone “sketch” engraving of the Menorah, have been discovered in archeological digs near the Temple Mount recently, and the Antiquities Authority is making them known for Tisha B’Av – the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction. The Authority has been digging…
DetailsBY ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday warned that the Palestinian Authority is planning to unleash a new wave of violence against Israel in conjunction with its bid for UN recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN in September. The Palestinian leadership “is planning violence and bloodshed on a scale that…
DetailsBY SHEERA FRENKEL, JEWISHWORLDREVIEW— More than a quarter-million Israelis marched Saturday evening against the high cost of housing, though many Israelis said it was a general protest over the struggle to make ends meet. “Every month was the same. We would work and cut coupons and hold off on anything frivolous. Still, we would end…
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