By Jim Barfield and Jared Sturgill The bible tells us that there are seven feasts and festivals that God gave to mankind. You can find the listing of these festivals in Leviticus chapter twenty-three. The festivals are as follows: Passover, Unleavened bread, Pentecost, Feast of trumpets, Day of atonement, Feast of tabernacles, and the Sabbath. …
DetailsBy Abe Selig, Jerusalem Post While tensions continue to simmer around the Temple Mount after riots in and around the capital’s Old City earlier this month, a new campaign calling for the construction of the Third Temple atop the holy site has made its way to the sides of 200 Egged buses in the city,…
DetailsBy Jonathan Tobin, Jewishworldreview.com Some 19 years ago, the first president Bush earned the enmity of American Jews with his rant about being “one lone guy” standing up against the horde of AIPAC activists exercising their constitutional right to petition Congress. Bush’s statement symbolized the intolerance and enmity that his administration felt toward Israel and…
DetailsBy Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” 1. “Next year in the reconstructed Jerusalem” concludes the annual reciting of the Passover Saga. How pertinent in March 2010?! 2. How central is Passover in Judaism and in the context of Judeo-Christian values? “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out…
DetailsBy Dennis Prager Many Americans find it difficult to understand why Jews on the Left — including many who would call themselves “liberal” rather than “Left” — continued to enthusiastically support President Obama after the revelations about the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the religious mentor and close friend of Obama.…
Detailsby Victor Sharpe It has thus come to this. Jerusalem may well be on the way to being re-divided. History will not look kindly upon those in this generation who have fallen into the trap of media distortion, Arab untruths, peace at any price and sheer apathy. The Jewish Talmud and Midrash tell us from…
DetailsBy Bill Mehlman and Kim Johnson “O Israel hope in the Lord For with the Lord there is mercy And with Him is plenteous redemption And He will redeem Israel…” Thus ends Psalm 130, a cry from the depths of a soul whose yearning for the sight of God is as that of the “watchman…
Details327 Representatives were signatories to the letter. 102 were non-signers: 94 were Democrats and 8 were Republican. Dear Secretary Clinton: We are writing to reaffirm our commitment to the unbreakable bond that exists between our country and the State of Israel and to express to you our deep concern over recent tension. In every important…
Detailsby Asaf Romirowsky, The Washington Examiner It is common to hear from good-hearted individuals who are not familiar with the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the simple, naïve question of “why can’t Israelis and Palestinian just get along and share the land?” Of late, a new paradigm has emerged that Zionism and the state of…
DetailsBy Natasha Mozgavaya, Haaretz Correspondent The White House has waved off suggestions that President Barak Obama was “embarrassed” to be photographed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid questions over the minimal media coverage of their meeting in Washington this week. “We were very comfortable with the coverage for last night’s meeting,” said White House…
Detailsby Debkafile US president Barack Obama kept on turning the screw on Israeli minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, March 24, after their harsh conversation in the White House Tuesday: Netanyahu was told bluntly to issue a White House-dictated public pledge before leaving Washington for home to eschew further construction in East Jerusalem, or else face a…
Detailsby Jackson Diehl, Washington Post So it’s now been two weeks since President Obama chose to seize on a poorly-timed Israeli announcement about new Jewish housing in Jerusalem to launch another public confrontation with the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. The results, so far, are these: Obama’s demand, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that Israel…
DetailsBy Shofarhorn.com— The answer may seem quite obvious to some of you, but in reality this question has become quite a controversy in the Christian community over the past several years. As Christians have learned more about the history of each holiday, an increasing number of Christians have been choosing to celebrate Passover rather than…
DetailsBy The Emet Report The Hebrew month of Nissan during which Passover occurs has historically been a month of miracles for the Jewish people. Passover (Pesach) itself and the ensuing Exodus from the slavery of Egypt is fraught with miracles. The Jewish people are a community founded by miracles, sustained by miracles throughout our history…
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