Our weekly Torah portion covers Leviticus 25: 1 to 27:34. Before the Jews enter the Holy Land, they are instructed how to care for the covenanted land and build a productive, but just, society. The text introduces the law of sevens in the annual cycle. When their period of wandering is over and they enter…
DetailsTorah: Leviticus 25:1 – 26:2, “Behar” (on the mountain … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32:6 – 27 New Testament: Acts 1:4 – 11 Gospel: Luke 4:16 – 21, “Gudal” ( His custom … )
DetailsOn May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Seduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Friday morning it was reported that US President Trump’s plan for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) was revealed to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman during his visit to Washington last week. According to the report, Israel will be called upon to relinquish…
DetailsBy Israel Today— Defense officials in both Israel and the United States say they expect Iran to soon attack the Jewish state following President Donald Trump’s announcement that his government is abandoning the nuclear deal brokered by his predecessor, Barack Obama. Trump promised two years ago during his presidential campaign that he’d nix the Iran…
DetailsPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Tuesday, 8 May 2018), issued the following statement: “Israel fully supports President Trump’s bold decision today to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with the terrorist regime in Tehran. Israel has opposed the nuclear deal from the start because we said that rather than blocking Iran’s path to a bomb,…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post— The same day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Israel seized Iran’s archive of its military nuclear program in Tehran and spirited it to Israel, a video was posted of IDF soldiers singing Soltane Ghalbha, a traditional Persian love song – in Persian. Taken together, the two events demonstrate the…
DetailsThe National Conference on Jewish Affairs (NCJA) has released the following statement today: “We wish to express our gratitude to President Trump for his bold, thoughtful and principled decision to have the United States terminate our nation’s participation in the dangerous Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ that was negotiated during…
DetailsBy Avi Abelow, Israel Unwired— Iran has vowed revenge against Israel for bombing the T4 army base they were building in Syria. Iran has threatened Israel with a massive missile attack. Israel is taking these threats very seriously. It is believed that Israel has made public its concern about the Iranian threat in order to…
Details“In its collective fate and destiny, Israel will constitute the most compelling evidence of divine involvement in human history.” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Think on this: “When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each…
DetailsBy Yoram Ettinger— 1. The tyrannical Ayatollah regime – oppressing Iran’s majority – is driven by a megalomaniacal ideology, clearly reflected by its K-12 curriculum, brainwashing Iran’s youth for full commitment to the “divine battle” against the US, “the Great Satan,” the “infidel” Sunni Muslims, Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Kurds, Azerbaijanis, etc. 2. The Ayatollahs’ super-ideology…
DetailsBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Friday morning it was reported that US President Trump’s plan for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) was revealed to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman during his visit to Washington last week. According to the report, Israel will be called upon to relinquish…
DetailsBy Avi Abelow, Israel Unwired— President Trump must decide by May 12th whether to cancel the Iran nuclear deal or to renegotiate critical changes that Obama left out. Iran wants neither option. In response, Iran is threatening the United States with serious “consequences”. Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif today issued a serious…
DetailsBy Tovah Lazaroff, JPOST— Even Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic friends condemned him. Friends and foes alike blasted Abbas as an “antisemite” and a “Holocaust denier,” after he charged that the Nazis killed Jews in the Holocaust because they were money lenders. “The Holocaust did not occur in a vacuum, it was the result…
DetailsBy Moshe Dann, JNS— The problem with “the two-state solution”—creating a sovereign independent Palestinian state west of the Jordan River—is that a Palestinian state already exists east of the Jordan River; it’s called Jordan. Its population is predominantly “Palestinian,” and it is located in the eastern part of what was once called “Palestine.” Demographically and…
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