For the Sabbath of March 12, 2011. Torah Portion: Leviticus1:1—6:7 (5:26), “VaYikra” (“And he called …”) Haftorah: Isaiah 43:21—44:23 Gospel: John 1:1—14, “Berasheet Haya Hadaver” (“In the beginning was the Word ”) New Testament: Hebrews 10:1—18
DetailsBY STAN GOODENOUGH— Something is becoming increasingly and distressingly apparent with every passing month: So many of us Christians who stand with God’s purposes for Israel are way, way behind, and way out of touch. We’re sleeping. We’re dreaming. We’re looking in the wrong direction and, those who are calling out are calling into the…
DetailsBY STAN GOODENOUGH— Something is becoming increasingly and distressingly apparent with every passing month: So many of us Christians who stand with God’s purposes for Israel are way, way behind, and way out of touch. We’re sleeping. We’re dreaming. We’re looking in the wrong direction and, those who are calling out are calling into the…
DetailsJAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, Israelmybeloved.com — “Every night when I go to bed, I pray to wake up the next day to see Israel is wiped off the map.” Kamal El Helbawy “I hate Israel, I love Amr Moussa” A 2001 Egyptian top hit. Hamas Asks Rival Fatah to Reconcile for “Jihad”…
DetailsPHYLLIS CHESLER, Front Page.com — The mob roars its hoarse, ear-splitting chants. “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Zionism,” “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.” Keffiyas abound: On heads, over faces, around shoulders. The Arab “street” is on the move—in Toronto, Montreal, Amherst, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, St. Louis, Houston, Berkeley, and…
DetailsThink on this: “Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city of conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.” Pray on this: We confess our Father, that we all stand guilty…
DetailsYORAM ETTINGER, in Israel Today — Revolution in Egypt, the Tunisian government has fallen, and there is speculation that Jordan could be next. On top of it all, Lebanon is more fully under the thumb of Hezbollah and Iran than ever before. The regional upheaval has enormous implications for Israel. Israel Today reporter Ryan Jones…
DetailsDAVID PARSONS, JPost, Christian Edition — ‘The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be resolved until this Islamist mentality changes.’ Hot on the heels of the documentary With God On Our Side, another new anti-Israel film funded and produced by Evangelicals is making the rounds. Little Town of Bethlehem features three protagonists “ a Palestinian Muslim, a…
DetailsSTAN GOODENOUGH, The Jerusalem Newswire — A few short decades ago, one out of every three Jews on this planet was murdered. While the Holocaust stands unique in many ways, and was definitely the darkest period in the last nearly 2000 years of Jewish history, those 20 centuries of the Christian era were themselves peppered…
DetailsEDITORIAL, Investor’s Business Daily — Leadership: In recent weeks, one of humanity’s ugliest scourges has seen an unwelcome resurgence. We’re talking of course about anti-Semitism. We’re happy to see that at least one world leader recognizes it. Amid an outbreak of sometimes borderline and sometimes outright anti-Semitism among Hollywood stars and politicians, we’re starting to…
DetailsCAROLINE GLICK, JPost — Global jihadists have predicted correctly that Western liberals will not learn the lessons of history. Instead of acknowledging their previous mistakes, they will again whitewash and embrace those whose goal is nothing short of destroying civilization
DetailsBY LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST— Nation of Islam leader says his comments on Jews are meant “to pull the cover off Satan” and “Zionists dominate the US government and banks.”Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said on Tuesday that Jews and Zionists are “trying to push the US into war” and that “Zionists dominate the US…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE— It is uncertain when the first vestiges of Jewish life in the British Isles occurred. Ancient Phoenicia, which lay along the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the north of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel was a seafaring nation and its fleets may well have voyaged as far as Britain and possibly with crews…
DetailsBY DANIEL AYALON, FOREIGN POLICY— The recent unrest in parts of the Arab world has not only exposed the appalling lack of development in these countries, but also a number of fundamental deficiencies in the international system. The United Nations, which began its life with a plurality of democratic nations, now allows for an automatic…
DetailsBY HERB KEINON, JPOST The current instability in the region, coupled with the continued refusal of the Palestinians to negotiate, will likely lead to an Israeli initiative to move the diplomatic process forward, senior government officials said Tuesday. The officials said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was contemplating a phased approach “that will lead us…
DetailsBY NICOLE BRACKMAN AND ASAF ROMIROWSKY, PAJAMAS MEDIA Recent turmoil in the Middle East has focused the world’s attention on the disintegration of several of that region’s worst autocratic dictatorships. “Popular uprising,” “liberalism,” and “democracy” sound like movements the U.S. and the West should support; however, when coming out of the Arab world — with…
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