Enews: The Third Temple Book

Does the Bible really predict a Third Temple? How can a Third Temple be built on the Islamic holy site of the Temple Mount? Theories and speculation about a future Third Temple in Jerusalem are becoming more and more prevalent in our day. There are those who debate the location of the former Temples in…

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Palestinians: Arresting, Torturing Journalists

By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone—- The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank is continuing its unremitting security crackdown on Palestinian journalists, particularly on those who are not affiliated with Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction. Scores of journalists have been arrested or summoned by the PA in the West Bank on a regular basis in…

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Video: Unpacking the Moses Controversy

In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Unpacking the Moses Controversy, Nehemia Gordon speaks with filmmaker Tim Mahoney about the latest installment of his Patterns of Evidence series. Mahoney explains why secular scholars say Moses could not have written the Torah. They discuss Paleo-Hebrew and earlier forms of writing that preceded it, and the earliest known…

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Election poll puts Netanyahu bloc ahead, despite indictment

By Benjamin Kerstein, The Algemeiner A new poll shows that if Israeli elections were held today, the right-wing bloc would still come out ahead of the center-left opposition, allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a narrow rightist government. According to the poll conducted by Hebrew news site Walla, the right-wing bloc would control 61…

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Democrat’s Support for Israel in Rapid Decline

By David Lazarus, Israel Today— Support for Israel among US Democrats is dropping sharply, and the party once preferred by American Jews is quickly losing their support. According to a Pew Research survey, currently, 79% of Republicans say they sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians, compared with just 27% of Democrats. Since 2001,…

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Christian Network Labels Breaking Israel News “Satanic Conspiracy”

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— Breaking Israel News has been attacked by a Christian media ministry that is reiterating classic antisemitic claims of Jewish global domination but there is a new twist in this age-old hate-speech: pro-Israel Christians are included as part of the conspiracy. TruNews with Rick Wiles produced several videos focusing on articles…

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Israel’s Deep State Takes Aim at Netanyahu

By Caroline Glick, Breitbart—- Israel’s administrative state is out of control. The Israeli police’s announcement on Sunday that the department is recommending that Israel’s Attorney General indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery and breach of trust is not a testament to the investigators’ bold determination to see that justice is done even…

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The Palestinian Fan Club

By Mitchell Bard, Algemeiner— In movies involving fraternities, there is usually a hazing scene where pledges are repeatedly — and willingly — paddled from behind. Listening to people who routinely claim that Israel is solely responsible for the absence of peace and could solve the problem by being nice to the Palestinians reminds me of…

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The Golden Gate in History

By Moshe Dann, Jerusalem Post— Although Muslims claim the Golden/Mercy Gate as a Muslim shrine, the gate was built during the Second Temple period. Known as the Golden, Mercy and Shushan Gate, it is the most important gate of the Temple Mount because through it, the High Priest on Yom Kippur led the red heifer…

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Open Letter From Sanhedrin to Donald Trump Concerning Dividing the Land of Israel and Jerusalem

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— The nascent Sanhedrin issued an open letter to the president of the United States in advance of the announcement concerning his peace plan for the Middle East. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser, is currently touring the region to garner support for the much-anticipated plan. Though details…

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Netanyahu: ‘Won’t be another mosque on the Temple Mount’

BY NADAV SHRAGAI, ARIEL KAHANA, DANIEL SIRYOTI AND ISRAEL HAYOM STAFF Tensions continued to bubble Monday on the Temple Mount after the “Gate of Mercy” structure near the Al-Aqsa mosque was certified as another mosque, with silent agreement from Israel, despite official denials issued by Israeli authorities. Government officials said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

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Congress to view bill recognizing Israeli sovereignty on Golan

By Israel Hayom— U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) introduced companion resolutions on Tuesday urging the United States to officially recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The bill emphasizes the strategic importance of Israeli control over the area, which the Jewish state captured in the 1967…

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Antisemitism in the US Congress

By Shmuley Boteach, Algemeiner— There is a lot of talk these days about white privilege, and it is true that white Americans do enjoy many advantages. However, some of the people who are most vocal in making accusations of this type have created a new type of privilege for minorities that is used to shield them…

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Netanyahu to be indicted for bribery by Israel’s attorney general

By David Isaac, World Israel News Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Thursday that he will file charges in all three criminal investigations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The decision was expected throughout the day, and tension was high in political circles ahead of the long-awaited announcement. The charges came despite a last-minute Likud…

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What Bibi’s Indictment Means

By Avi Bell, Tablet— Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s announcement to the media, 40 days before general elections, that he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery and breach of trust in three different cases was political drama of the highest order. There’s no gainsaying the importance to Israel’s politics and…

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Enews: Martin Luther, revisited

At 34 years of age, the Martin Luther of 1517 was a little known Augustinian monk plagued by thoughts of his own sins and failings. Luther, in his own words, suffered from an “extremely disturbed conscience.” When his private meditations on the scriptures revealed to him that righteousness was a gift from God, born out…

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