Quote of the Week
“When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream.” Shimon Peres, former President of Israel
Are Far-Left Candidates Pushing the Democrats Further Away From Israel?
By JNS— Much like the 2016 presidential election, the 2018 midterm congressional elections are shaping up to be one of the most contentious in recent memory. Democrats are attempting to retake both houses of Congress in a bid to serve as a check on U.S. President Donald Trump and to rectify their embarrassing defeat in…
Scripture Reading for August 4, 2018
Torah: Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25, “Eikev” (on the heel of …) Haftorah: Isaiah 49:14 – 51:3 New Testament: Romans 8:31 – 39 Gospel: John 1:29 – 34, “The Lamb of God” (Say ha’elohim …)
Anti-Semitism in Hitler’s birthplace and the college campus
By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage— Burkay, an unemployed Muslim Turk, wearing a stained white “Miami Beach” shirt attacked three Jewish people in Vienna, Austria. It was just another day in a city where Muslim terrorists had once thrown grenades into a synagogue during a bar mitzvah, killing a woman who threw herself onto the grenade to…
Minority Leaders Express Support for Nation-State Law
By Daniel Siryoti, Ariel Kahana, Gideon Allon and Yori Yalon, Israel Hayom— Despite some Druze leaders’ vocal opposition to the controversial nation-state law, some in the community, as well as within other minorities, are voicing support for the legislation. The nation-state law defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The law’s provisions, including…
US Imposes Sanctions on Turkey
By Israel National News—- The Trump Administration imposed sanctions on Turkish officials Wednesday over the imprisonment of a US pastor Wednesday. “Pastor Brunson’s unjust detention and continued prosecution by Turkish officials is simply unacceptable,” US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. “President Trump has made it abundantly clear that the United States expects…
Russian Envoy: Israel Agrees to Removal of Iranian Troops 85 KM from Golan
By Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post— Russia and Israel have reached an agreement on the removal of Iranian forces at least 85 kilometers from Israel’s Golan Heights, Russia’s special envoy for Syria told the Sputnik news agency on Wednesday. “As we took into account the Israeli concerns, we managed to attain the pullout of Iranian units…
Jewish Schism: Liberal American Jews vs. Israeli Jews—Why Can’t We Just Be Friends
By Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post On our way to dinner earlier this week, my wife and I bumped into a group of soldiers. We were about to simply walk by when one of them stopped us to tell us he was a good friend of our son. American, a recent graduate of a leading American university, he’d…
Trump Says U.S. to Impose ‘Large Sanctions’ on Turkey Over Pastor’s Detention
By Haaretz— U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States would impose significant sanctions on Turkey over its detention of American Christian pastor Andrew Brunson and called on Ankara to immediately release him. “The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great…
The Forgotten (or Ignored) Aspect of Israel’s ‘Racist’ Nation-State Law
By Ryan Jones, Israel Today— Israel has come under a lot of flak for recently passing a new Basic Law (the local equivalent of a constitutional law in the absence of a true constitution) that enshrines “Israel as the historic home of the Jewish people,” officially labels an undivided Jerusalem as its capital and declares…