Scripture Reading for August 5, 2017
Torah: Deuteronomy 5:23 – 7:11, “Va’etchanan” (and I pleaded … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:1 – 26 New Testament: Romans 9:1 – 13 Gospel: Matthew 23:29 – 39, “Parush eveer” (Blind Pharisees … )
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We hear a lot these days about fake news, but what about “fake heritage?” In the battle for international hearts and minds, being “indigenous” is a hot ticket to leftist sympathy. The Arabs haven’t been able to bludgeon Israel into physical submission, but in their lust for the indigenous status in Israel, they’re making great…
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Jared Kushner on Middle East Peace
By Ashley Feinberg, ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series. During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Kushner may have inadvertently offered some insight into the negotiating tactics he is using in the Middle East. Prior to Kushner’s…
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Iran’s role in Temple Mount clashes revealed
By JNS.org—- The recent clashes in and around the Temple Mount were fueled in part by the Iranian government, Palestinian sources told Israel Hayom this week. The clashes erupted after Israeli authorities installed metal detectors at entry points to the site in response to a deadly terrorist attack there July 14. Many Muslims locally and around the world viewed the Israeli security measure…
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The Face of Ungratefulness
By Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— A sense of despair accompanies the experience of watching someone defending Israel. The bias, the ignorance, the post-truth era, makes it nearly impossible to win an argument that favors Israel. It’s as if in and of itself speaking positively about the Jewish state is illegitimate. The reasons for such an…
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A perilous situation
By Prof. Eyal Zisser Israel Hayom The flames on and around the Temple Mount were fueled by external forces that were neither Palestinian nor Arab, it seems. While most of the Arab nations came together in an effort to defuse tensions in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority looked for a dignified way to climb down…
DetailsTruth Report: “Avoiding another Tisha B’Av”
Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for…
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The battle over Jerusalem has just begun
By Bassam Tawil, Gatestone-— The Palestinian “victory” celebrations that took place after Israel removed metal detectors and surveillance cameras from the entrances to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem bode badly for the future of stability and peace in the Middle East. To the Palestinians and many Arabs and Muslims, the Israeli move is viewed as…
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Jordan’s King wants to ‘Stop the Judaisation’ of Temple Mount
By Jewish Press— His Majesty King Abdullah II on Saturday spoke before an assembly of local newspaper editors and journalists, saying “he spared no occasion to put the Palestinian cause and defend Jerusalem before the world,” according to the Petra state news agency, adding, “There is no voice that speaks better than Jordan as we…
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Preparing for the inevitable?
By Earl Cox, JPost— In its short history just shy of seventy years, Israel has fought in eight recognized wars, two Palestinian intifadas, a number of armed conflicts with hostile neighbors and not one of these wars or armed conflicts was instigated or provoked by Israel. Israel’s neighbors should begin to wrap their heads around…
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Quote of the week
“The only way Islam can live with Israeli sovereignty is by recognizing that Israel is strong and invincible, so that any attempt to overcome it is sure to end in defeat… The possibility of a permanent European-style peace with the Jews does not exist in the Middle East, meaning that only power and a willingness…
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What Is the World Council of Churches?
By Malcolm Lowe, Gatestone— The World Council of Churches was founded with a noble aim: to overcome the divisions of Christianity and restore the unity of purpose of Christ’s original followers. After the retirement of its founding spirit, Willem Visser ‘t Hooft, it drifted away from its original concerns, a development that accelerated after his…
DetailsSpot Report: “Israel’s future Lamentation”
Think on this: ” I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then the Lord will go out…
DetailsThe Temple Mount: No longer in our hands?
By Martin Sherman, Israpundit— As a non-observant Jew I was always skeptical towards the claim of my more devout kin-folk that the Temple Mount was the key to the maintenance of Jewish sovereignty over Israel. I was wrong! It is extremely important that a solution to the current crisis be found by Friday this week…The…
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Erdogan, Haniyeh and Abbas are praying for an intifada
By Ron Ben-Yishai, Ynet— The Islamists who incited and ignited the metal detector crisis at the Temple Mount wanted an intifada. They haven’t given up their wish just yet. That’s the main reason the Waqf was preventing Muslim worshipers from returning to the Temple Mount until Thursday afternoon, although the Israeli government had already removed…
DetailsVideo: What’s the Point in Praying if You Can’t Bring Your Gun?
Honest Reporting, a media watchdog, explains the situation on the Temple Mount and the media blackout on Muslim death threats and violence. The media equated terror victims murdered in their homes with Palestinians killed while attacking Israeli police.
Trump taps Kansas Governor Brownback as religious freedom envoy
By JTA— President Donald Trump nominated Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, who has a long history of cooperation with the Jewish community on religious freedom issues, as his envoy on religious freedom. “While a member of the Senate, he worked actively on the issue of religious freedom in multiple countries and was a key sponsor of…
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