BY THE ISRAEL PROJECT— Passover begins this year on the evening of April 18 and lasts eight days outside of Israel, and seven days in Israel. Easter falls on April 24 in both Western and Orthodox Christianity, with Good Friday occurring two days earlier. The week encompassing those days, which also includes Palm Sunday –…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Peace AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld the AKP, Erdogan and his colleagues as proof that political Islam…
DetailsBY JPOST— US House Speaker John Boehner will invite Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of the US Congress during a visit to Washington next month, Boehner’s office announced on Thursday. Boehner will extend the formal invitation once Congress approves a resolution providing for the joint session, Boehner’s office said in a…
DetailsBY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS, AISH— Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is known as the “holiday of freedom,” commemorating the Jewish Exodus from Egypt following 210 years of slavery. Passover is regarded as the “birth” of the Jewish nation, and its lessons of struggle and identity continue to form the basis of Jewish consciousness 3,300 years after…
DetailsBY JONATHAN ROSENBLUM, JEWISHMEDIARESOURCES— Jewish college students find themselves increasingly under attack on campuses around the world. The seventh annual Israel Apartheid Week just took place on 55 campuses world-wide. Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney rightly described such events seeking to “promote Palestinian human rights” as “accompanied by anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and bullying.” Canadian Prime…
DetailsBY ISRAEL TODAY— Israelis are growing anxious over the international community’s renewed rush to impose a peace settlement on Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. And the world’s impatience is being fueled by Palestinian threats to unilaterally declare statehood in September, even in the absence of a final status peace deal. Palestinian leaders have publicly announced…
DetailsBY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This past weekend, a bar mitzva boy in Beersheba received a rude welcome to adulthood. Sometime after midnight on Friday evening, just hours before the young man was due to ascend the podium to read from the Torah, an air-raid siren sounded. “Tzeva Adom” (the equivalent of “Code Red”), it declared,…
DetailsThink on this: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him. so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus name.” Amen Pray on this: Father, in this season of Passover and Holy Week and as we anticipate Resurrection…
DetailsEgypt‟s hieroglyph for the “god of air” was Heh, which stood for a “great, but indefinite number.” It represented “the Eternal One, the god of hundreds of thousands of years.” It stood for a “limitless number.” In fact, Heh represented infinity and was drawn as: a stick figure of a man praying or praising God…
DetailsBY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ 7 The United States on Tuesday blocked a Quartet move to impose on Israel a final status plan for the Palestinian Authority. Foreign media had reported that the initiative would re-start the “peace process.” Britain, France and Germany were behind the initiative for the meeting of the Quartet, comprised of…
DetailsBY JPOST.COM— The condition of Daniel Viflic, the 16-year-old boy injured in the anti-tank missile attack on a school bus in the Negev on last week, has worsened, according to a statement released by Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center on Tuesday. The boy’s condition was upgraded to extremely critical and life-threatening. Viflic suffered severe head trauma…
DetailsWatch this week’s edition of Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem. On this show, the fourth segment of TNL Across America filmed in Florida, Ari and Jeremy meet Walid Shoeabat. Shoeabat, used to be a radicalized Muslim who, as he says was “willing to die for the cause of Jihad. I was involved in terror activity,…
DetailsBY DR. RICHARD BOOKER— Since Jerusalem is the most famous city in the world, since it is God’s hometown and since it is the final destination for God’s people, it is most important that we have an understanding of Jerusalem in prophecy. In this article we will study Jerusalem from the ancient Canaanite period through…
DetailsFor the Sabbath of April 16, 2011. Torah Portion: Leviticus 16:1—18:30, “Acharei Mot” (“After the death…”) Haftorah: Amos 9:7—15 Gospel: Matthew 26:17—30, “Lechag Hamazot” (“The Feast of Unleavened Bread … ”) New Testament: Hebrews 9:11—28
DetailsBY DR. RICHARD BOOKER— Since Jerusalem is the most famous city in the world, since it is God’s hometown and since it is the final destination for God’s people, it is most important that we have an understanding of Jerusalem in prophecy. In this article we will study Jerusalem from the ancient Canaanite period through…
DetailsBY YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNETNEWS— A new survey released Monday by the Israel Project, revealed support for Israel among the American public is strong. The national survey, which included 800 registered voters from both major parties, and stated a margin of error of 3.46%. According to the data, 51% of US voters oppose the unilateral declaration…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— President Obama’s lugubrious policy of denigrating America whenever he visits developing Third World countries includes craven, mournful apologies for perceived past American sins to some of the world’s worst thugocracies. British Prime Minister, David Cameron, alas, appears to be sinking to the same level in apologizing for alleged British…
DetailsBY JOSEPH KLEIN, NEWSREALBLOG— Hamas is now deliberately targeting Israeli school children with rocket attacks against clearly marked school buses. They know no shame, yet they continue to play the victim, pleading with the international community for protection from Israel’s reprisals. Terrorists in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus on Thursday,…
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