by Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic Monthly I’ve been struck over the past couple of days by the lackadaisical coverage of what seems to be the most important story coming out of the Middle East right now — the terrible attack early on New Year’s Day on a Coptic church in Egypt, in which 21 Christians were…
DetailsEach week we give a suggested series of scripture readings for the the coming week. It begins on the Sabbath (Saturday) with the weekly Torah portion and the accompanying Haftorah reading. It concludes with a compatible portion from the Gospels and the New Testament. For the Sabbath of January 8, 2011. Torah Portion: “Bo”…
Detailsby Atty. Elyakim Haetzni, Arutz 7 Well-known columnist Thomas Friedman summed up his recent article, Reality Check, in the New York Times as follows: “The most important thing President Obama and the Secretary of State…can do now is…to simply get out of the picture…America has to get off the road…”. Putting aside our reservations about…
Detailsby Chana Ya’ar, Arutz 7 Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency (FNA) is accusing Israel’s international intelligence agency of killing the country’s nuclear scientists. The news agency quoted a report posted Wednesday on the IranNuc.ir website that said the Mossad “has a long record in assassinating Arab and Muslim scientists in collaboration with its U.S. and…
Detailsby JPost Staff Israel needs to reexamine its policies and initiate steps to build trust with the Palestinian Authority so that negotiations can be restarted, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday. The two leaders met in Sharm e-Sheikh and held a lengthy, friendly and comprehensive discussion that focused on the…
Detailsby AFP Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday urged “swift action” to help push forward the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, warning against wasting more time, a palace statement said. “Efforts for having serious and effective peace talks should continue, based on a two-state solution, which is the only way to achieve regional stability and security,”…
Detailsby Matthew RJ Brodsky, JPost With the peace process returning to a deep freeze, the Obama administration is eyeing an opportunity to make headway with Syria. The theory is nothing new: If the regime in Damascus can make peace with Israel, end its sponsorship of terrorist groups such as Hizbullah and Hamas, distance itself from…
Detailsby Debkafile The UN has turned down Lebanon’s demand to intervene in delineating its sea border following Israel’s discovery in the Mediterranean of the Leviathan gas well – billed as the world’s biggest find in a decade. UN Spokesman Martin Nesirsky explained that UNIFIL’s mandate applied to coastal waters, not to delineating maritime lines. Cyprus…
DetailsDr. Gauthier is a Canadian lawyer whose life’s work has been devoted to a thesis proving the legitimacy of the Jewish claim to Jerusalem under international law. In his first ever presentation to a Christian audience, this thorough analysis of the Jewish people’s legal claim to their capital was given at the ICEJ’s Feast of…
DetailsDr. Jim Hutchens invites the Jerusalem Connection supporters to join him and his wife Dr. Pat Hutchens in a very special trip to Auschwitz, Poland in late June and early July of 2011.
Think on this: The bad news: “Indeed the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think his is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.” … “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of…
Detailsby Hilary Leila Krieger, JPost WASHINGTON – The Congress that will be installed Wednesday might be losing four of its Jewish members, but Republicans and several pro-Israel advocates insist it will remain as supportive as ever of the Jewish state. “The members who are taking over will be at least as strong in their pro-Israel…
Detailsby Israel Today Israel’s Ma’ariv daily newspaper reported on Tuesday that Saudi Arabian officials have “arrested” a wounded vulture that landed in a rural area of the country wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet etched with the words “Tel Aviv University.” The bird is part of ongoing long-term research into bird migration patterns, but…
Detailsby Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made an unprecedented public appeal in the Knesset Tuesday night for freeing Jonathan, reading out loud a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, appealing to him to end Pollard’s life sentence in prison. The government announced two weeks ago that the Prime Minister would make a public appeal…
DetailsThe world contains an abundance of varied and beautiful locations, which fascinate and excite visitors, but the Dead Sea region is unique, combining history, geography, nature, health and beauty, and has attracted visitors throughout human history. Even in ancient times, the Dead Sea was the focus of important events: In the Bible, Abraham, the father…
Detailsby Israel Today The previous twelve months were the hottest and overall driest year Israel has experienced since weather records started being kept. The Israel Meteorological Service has published year-end data showing that temperatures across Israel in 2010 were some 2-3 degrees hotter than the average temperatures recorded over the past 30 years. For instance,…
Detailsby Marcus Dysch, The Jewish Chronicle The discovery of a huge natural gas field off the coast of Haifa could secure Israel’s long-term energy security, according to experts. The 16 trillion cubic feet of gas, 80 miles away from the Jewish state under the Mediterranean, represents the world’s biggest find in the past decade. One…
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