Scripture Reading for May 20, 2017
Torah: Leviticus 25:1 – 27:34, “Behar” (The Mount … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19 – 17:14 New Testament: Acts 9:1 – 11 Gospel: Matthew 21:33 – 46, “Shemu” (Listen … )
It’s Final: Trump Will Not Move Embassy
By David Israel, Jewish Press— President Donald Trump will not move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for the time being, a senior White House official told Bloomberg. This makes it the second campaign promise the president has broken in one evening, the first one being signing a waiver on Iran…
Israeli President: Christians Are Our brothers
By Israel Today— Israel President Reuven Rivlin said during a meeting with church leaders in Jerusalem that Christians and Jews are “brothers.” Rivlin invited the heads of the various churches in Jerusalem to his official residence on the occasion of Easter. He used the opportunity to decry the rising persecution of Christians across the Middle…
Trump Must Pray on Temple Mount for God’s Help in Bringing Messiah: Sanhedrin
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— The nascent Sanhedrin sent a letter on Monday to US President Donald Trump, calling on him to ascend to the Temple Mount and pray for world peace when he arrives in Jerusalem next week for his first state visit. If Trump chooses to answer the call, he will not only…
Haley: Western Wall is part of Israel
By Chana Roberts, Israel National News— US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that the US Embassy should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and that the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City is part of Israel. In an interview with CBN News, Haley said, “Obviously I believe that the…
White House: No Plans to Announce Embassy Move During Israel Visit
by CHARLIE SPIERING, Breitbart— The White House does not expect to announce plans to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, despite President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to do so. “There’s no planned announcement for the embassy on the trip,” a White House official told Breitbart News. The official however cautioned that the plan…
‘Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem will advance peace’
By Israel Hayom— The possible relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was at the center of a pointed exchange between Israel and the White House on Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to determine how keeping his election promise to move the embassy may affect his hopes of…
Who owns the Holy City? The Jerusalem question
By Carl Hoffman, JPost— Would it surprise you to learn that the Knesset – our governing body, symbol of sovereignty, and hub of national political power – sits on land that the State of Israel does not in fact own? Would you also be taken aback to discover that the same thing can be said…
Iran’s defense minister blasts Saudis for cozying up to Netanyahu
By Jpost-— Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan accused Saudi Arabia of cozying up to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a sign of how far the relationship between the two Muslim powers have fallen in recent years. Speaking in an interview aired Monday on Al-Manar TV, Dehghan asks the rulers in Riyadh “Do the interests of the…
Embarking on a Fool’s Errand
BY Sarah Stern, EMET— In his memoir, My Life, President Bill Clinton wrote “Right before I left office, Arafat in one of our last conversations, thanked me for all my efforts and told me what a great man I was.’ ‘Mr. Chairman.’ I replied, ‘I am not a great man. I am a failure, and…