By TAMARA ZIEVE, JPOST— Netanyahu to olim: This journey is not just of personal importance, but of national importance. The largest French aliya flight so far this summer landed Wednesday at Ben-Gurion Airport, where the newcomers were greeted with calls of “bienvenue en Israel” at a festive reception in their honor. Some 200 French Jews…
“President Abbas, since over the past several years, you refused to meet me and sit down and negotiate peace, I hope you’ll hear this message.” In this stirring delivery, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlines for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas his plans of “five steps for peace”.
By Bill Wilson, Daily Jot— Four years ago (July 20, 2012), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood were in the news. Now as the Republican convention comes to a close, WorldNetDaily reports that one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisors, Joseph Schmitz, thinks that bills in Congress to declare the…
Torah: Numbers 22:2 – 25:9, “Balak” (Devastation … ) Haftorah: Micah 5:6 – 6:8 New Testament: Romans 11:25 – 32 Gospel: Matthew 23:37 – 39, “O Yerushalaim” (O Jerusalem … )
By Herb Keinon, JPOST— Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump – who said in February he wanted to be a “neutral guy” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – selected as his running mate a man who told The Jerusalem Post that the US should not be an “honest broker” in the Mideast, but rather let the…
By Bill Wilson, Daily Jot— Two events on the world stage in the past week have possibly contributed to the end time prophecy clock ticking forward. Turkey’s failed coup and Iran’s revelation of a side agreement that allows it to develop a nuclear weapons program sooner than had previously been reported are two events involving…
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”— Helen Keller
By David Lazarus, Israel Today-— The Knesset passed a bill this week designed to protect Arab Christians who enlist in the Israeli army. The law, which includes an extended prison sentence for anyone who tries to dissuade a Christian Arab from serving in the IDF, became necessary in the face of stiff opposition and violent attacks…
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST— Israel warned the European Union on Thursday night that supporting a UNESCO resolution which views the Temple Mount as a solely Muslim site is akin to ignoring Europe’s Christian roots. “If the Europeans have a hand in a UNESCO decision that rejects or does not deal with the Jewish people’s relationship…