By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel initiative” The evolution of President Trump’s stance on the Palestinian issue reflects extrication from conventional wisdom, which was embraced by his predecessors and the establishment of the State Department, academia and the media, while systematically crashed against the rocks of Middle East reality. In contrast to…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi © Who said that they do not follow our calendar? Ever so often the despicable murders by the Palestinian terrorists of innocent Israeli people, children, teenagers, rabbis, teachers, housewives are committed on or close to Shabbat or our holy days. Our New Year 5779 have just started. And two days before Yom…
DetailsThis week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 31:1 to 31:30. Although Moses is trying to be an encouragement, he is also a prophet and it is impossible for a prophet to be blindly naïve. Moses knows that once the people are in the land and they no longer have to rely on God for their daily…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 31:1 – 30, “Vayielech” (and he went … ) Haftorah: Hosea 14:10; Micah 7:18 – 20; Joel 2:15 0 27 New Testament: Romans 10:14 – 18 Gospel: John 4:19 -26, Hayeshuah maet ha’yehudim, (Salvation is of the Jews…)
DetailsThis week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 31:1 to 31:30. Although Moses is trying to be an encouragement, he is also a prophet and it is impossible for a prophet to be blindly naïve. Moses knows that once the people are in the land and they no longer have to rely on God for their daily…
DetailsBy Inna Rogatchi ©, 2018- During the three weeks of repentance preceding Tisha B’Av, the Av 9th, the day of the peak of Jewish sorrow, among many of the restrictions valid for the period, the ban on music is the most difficult for me. Music in all its variety is as natural and as necessary…
DetailsBy Abbas Al Lawati, Bloomberg— The Palestinian Authority vowed to reconsider its cooperation with Israel as it again accused the U.S. of taking sides in the stalled Middle East peace process. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat told reporters in Ramallah that the full range of political, economic and security ties would be reassessed in the…
DetailsBy Josh Hasten, Jewish Press— Tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump to help reach the “deal of the century,” Jason Greenblatt, who serves as one of Trump’s top Middle East envoys, has a herculean task before him: to help negotiate the peace plan between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Along with Trump’s son-in-law and senior…
DetailsBy Israel Today— Palestinian Authority officials have warned that their people will respond to US President Donald Trump’s latest foreign policy moves in, apparently, the only way they know how–with an explosion of violence. Earlier this month, Trump made good on his promise to cut all American funding to UNRWA, the United Nations body set…
DetailsBy Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage— “Like most American Jews, I was raised with the delusion that Israel was a safe haven for me,” Julia Salazar wrote on Mondoweiss, an anti-Semitic hate site, while denouncing the Jewish State. Salazar’s rant had appeared on a racist site whose creator had complained that his publication had been banned from…
DetailsBY DEBORAH FINEBLUM, JNS— IfNotNow has a plan. It’s determined, according to its website, to create nothing less than “a movement led by young Jews to reclaim the mantle of Jewish leadership from the out-of-touch establishment.” Or, more specifically, to be “the generation to end our community’s support for the occupation.” Since the term “occupation”…
DetailsBy Laurie Kellman, AP— President Donald Trump is closing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission in Washington, the latest U.S. blow against the Palestinians and an international court during the stalled Mideast peace process. Some things to know: THE GIST The administration’s move to close the PLO office in Washington is not directly connected to the…
Details“Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the…
DetailsBy Avner Bosky, Final Frontier Ministries— The traditional Jewish New Year is upon us. It’s called Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew and Rosh Hashoneh in Yiddish. The sons and daughters of Jacob nibble apples and honey as they hope for a sweet year. Synagogues register their highest attendance as the High Holy Days or ‘Days of…
DetailsThink on this: “Listen, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound the dead will be raised imperishable, and e will be changed” (I Corinthians 15:51-52) Pray like this: Father,…
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