by Daniel McCabe The Crucifixion, part 2 Mark 15:22, “And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.” When referring to the place of Jesus’ execution, three of the Gospel writers use the term “Golgotha,” meaning “skull” or “head.” Many possible explanations have been suggested for the use of…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— There is in everyone a natural desire for knowledge, but what good is knowledge without the fear of God? A lowly peasant who serves God is better off than a brilliant, proud philosopher who studies the stars but doesn’t know the One…
Detailsby Stan Goodenough “Now also many nations have gathered against you, Who say, “Let her be defiled, And let our eye look upon Zion.” But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they understand His counsel; For He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor. “Arise and thresh, O…
DetailsBy LELA GILBERT , THE JERUSALEM POST “All I can remember… is the element of fear,” Joseph Abdel Wahed writes, reflecting on the events of his 12th year. “People in the streets would mock us with the famous Arab insult, Ya yahudi ya ibn el kalb , or even more ominously Idbah el-Yahud . “This…
Detailsby Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch The Palestinian Authority libel that Israel deliberately harvests organs from dead Palestinians has caught on in the Arab world. Last month Egyptian authorities temporarily denied Israeli doctors entry into Egypt to participate in a medical conference. The head of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate explained that…
Detailsby Israel Today Staff According to a centuries-old rabbinical prophecy that appears to be coming true, on March 16, 2010, Israel will begin construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. During the 18th century, the Vilna Gaon, a respected rabbinical authority, prophesied that the Hurva Synagoge in Jerusalem, which was built during his day, would…
DetailsBy HAROLD BRACKMAN , THE JERUSALEM POST After the Obama administration voiced “dismay” earlier this month at the decision by the Jerusalem municipality to approve 900 new housing units in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, straddling the Green Line, former housing minister Meir Sheetrit quipped that the White House seems to think that Jerusalem has…
Detailsby Asaf Romirowsky, inFocus When the modern State of Israel was founded 61 years ago, David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, correctly noted that the country could not afford to lose a single war. Consequently, Israel has worked to maintain a high level of military deterrence against the many Arab countries and Islamist groups…
DetailsBy Israel Today Staff According to a centuries-old rabbinical prophecy that appears to be coming true, on March 16, 2010, Israel will begin construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. During the 18th century, the Vilna Gaon, a respected rabbinical authority, prophesied that the Hurva Synagoge in Jerusalem, which was built during his day, would…
DetailsO GOD WHOSE WILL CONQUERS ALL, There is no comfort in anything apart form enjoying you and being engaged in your service: You are All in all, and all enjoyments are what you make them, and no more. I am well pleased with your will, whatever it is, or should be in all respects, And…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakened Israel this week. And he did so for no good reason.Thursday’s headlines told the tale. The day after Netanyahu bowed to US pressure and announced a total freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria for ten months, Yediot Ahronot reported that the Obama administration…
DetailsBy Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com For more than five years, I have been conspicuously alone in pointing out the racist, anti-Jewish nature of policies that require the evacuation of Israelis from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and, more lately, the halts on building and repairing homes and businesses owned by Jews in Jerusalem. Finally, someone in Israel…
DetailsBy Haaretz Service Ten middle school students in Naples, Florida have been suspended after taking part in what they termed “Kick a Jew Day” at their school, school district officials reported. The one day in-school suspensions were served earlier this week. The incident occurred a day before red-haired students were targeted at a California middle…
Detailsby Stan Goodenough Christian Americans, my friends over there tell me, are on the move. Like soldiers emerging shell-shocked from a battle where they have been bombarded with round after round of high explosive, they are starting to shake off the stupor created in the ten months since the US became the Obamanation. Today is…
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