By JNS , Israel Hayom Staff— Fifty-eight Jewish organizations gathered in New York City on Wednesday for a “National Consultation on Responses to Anti-Semitism” to address ever increasing anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, Europe and around the world. Organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and hosted at the UJA-Federation…
DetailsBy Ariel Kahana, JNS— The Israeli government is preparing an official initiative, including an incentives package, to encourage countries to relocate their embassies to Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Israel Katz will soon present a proposal to the Cabinet to designate the transfer of embassies to Jerusalem as a “national, diplomatic and strategic objective of the highest…
DetailsTorah: Number 30:1-32:42, “Mattot” (Journeys of Tribes …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4 New Testament: James 4:1-12 Gospel: Matthew 5:17-20, “Al taheshvu” (Do not think… )
DetailsBy Nahum Barnea, Ynetnews— The peace conference is to take place in Camp David, the U.S. President’s country retreat, and U.S. President Donald Trump is set to present his Mideast Peace Plan during the conference. According to an unnamed source in Washington, the conference is set to take place before the September 17 elections in…
DetailsBy David Lazarus, Israel Today— Chosen People Ministries is sponsoring a debate between Dr. Michael Brown and Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in New York City on August 8. The debate will take place from 7:30-9:30 PM (NY time) and will be streamed live on YouTube. According to Chosen People Ministries, a 125-year-old mission to the…
DetailsBy Douglas Feith, Mosaic Magazine— In his essay in Mosaic on diplomacy, law, and Jerusalem, the estimable Michel Gurfinkiel asks, “What is international law?” and comments, “It’s easy enough to doubt, if not to mock, the idea that there is such a thing.” It sure is. The last century of U.S. policy on Jerusalem is…
DetailsBy Tawfik Hamid, Gatestone Institute— We must salute Jared Kushner’s attempt to bring a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. That said, the Palestinians’ unsurprising rejection of the peace offer requires some scrutiny, especially the true causes of the perennial failure to achieve lasting peace. Without understanding them, every attempt to solve this conflict, every…
DetailsBy Haaretz— Immigration to Israel rose by more than a quarter in the first half of 2019, fueled almost entirely by a continued surge in aliyah from Russia, according to internal Jewish Agency figures. In all of 2018, immigration showed a modest gain of 5 percent. A 73 percent increase in the number of individuals…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— The United States is reportedly planning a conference with Arab leaders at Camp David, during which US President Donald Trump will roll out his plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Invitations to the conference will be extended by Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, as he visits Israel and the Middle East…
DetailsBy Tovah Lazaroff, JPost— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to secure US support not to evacuate settlements in any potential peace deal with the Palestinians. “No settlement or settler will ever be uprooted from here,” Netanyahu said, as he made a campaign stop in the Efrat settlement located in the Gush Etzion region just outside…
DetailsBy Israel National News— YIsrael Beytenu Chairman MK Avigdor Liberman on Saturday emphasized that he is willing to sit with the New Right, but not with the “messianics.” At a Shabbatarbut (political and cultural forums that take place on the Sabbath) event in Hadera, Liberman said: “ Ayelet Shaked was an excellent Justice Minister and…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that the Palestinian leadership has decided to “halt” all agreements signed with Israel. Abbas reached out to Hamas, offering to end the dispute between the movement and his ruling Fatah faction. “We announce the leadership’s decision to stop dealing with agreements signed…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 25:10-30:1, “Pinchas” (Phinehas …) Haftorah: I Kings 18:46-19:21 New Testament: Romans 11:1-32 Gospel: John 13:1-17, “Yeshua Ha’Pesak” ( Jesus the Passover … )
DetailsBy Stephen Weizman, Breaking Christian News— Excavations in Israel’s Galilee have uncovered remains of an ancient church said to mark the home of the apostles Peter and Andrew, the dig’s archaeological director said Friday. Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret Academic College, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, said this season’s dig…
DetailsBy Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler, Breaking Israel News— Boris Johnson, the newly-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, isn’t Jewish. But his Jewish ancestry and personal experiences volunteering on an Israeli kibbutz as a young man positively impact his feelings about the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. It’s all in the name Johnson’s…
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