A Prayer for Our Nation
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National best interest
By JOHN GOLAN, JPOST— Despite what some may wish us to believe, the United States does not provide aid to Israel out of charity. Rather, it is a strategic investment, closely tied to US interests in the region: safeguarding the only reliable ally that the US has in that corner of the world; stabilizing the…
Former Israeli Ambassador: Europe’s ‘Obsession’ With Jews Should Serve as Warning to America
By Lea Speyer, The Algemeiner— Europe’s “obsession” with Jews should serve as a warning to America as it grapples with how to support Israel, a former Israeli ambassador to the US wrote on Thursday. In an op-ed published by Newsweek, Michael Oren — a member of Knesset for the centrist Kulanu Party and chairman of…
GOP Under Trump More Pro-Israel Than Ever?
By Israel Today staff, Israel Today— US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday declared on Twitter that the party’s platform is now more pro-Israel than it has ever been. Indeed, the Republican Party’s Platform Committee did make surprising policy changes that no previous candidate would or could have represented. The new platform erases all…
Scripture Reading for July 16, 2016
Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1, “Chukat” (Decree of … ) Haftorah: Judges 11:1 – 33 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 – 28 Gospel: John 3:10 – 21, “Ata moreh b’yisrael?” (Are you a teacher of Israel? … )
Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu
By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times— The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday. Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to…
“UNDIVIDED JERUSALEM”: GOP PLATFORM REWORDED TO BE UNASHAMEDLY PRO-ISRAEL
Sean Savage, Breaking Christian News— (Israel) — The Republican Party has reportedly reinstated language endorsing an “undivided” Jerusalem into the party’s platform ahead of its national convention in Cleveland later this month. According to CNN, which cited a first draft of the party platform that it obtained, the Republicans would reinstate a reference to an…
Shared values shape relations
By Yoram Ettinger— Long-term trends in U.S.-Israel relations do not hinge solely, or even mostly, on U.S. presidents. This has been documented since Israel’s establishment in 1948, and especially since the early 1980s, when, despite systematic presidential pressures on Israel, bilateral cooperation in the fields of industry, commerce, science, technology, agriculture, homeland security and defense…
The Legacy of Light: the Schneerson Family and the Way of Remembrance
(C) Inna Rogatchi ART VIDEO for the Essay: Inna Rogatchi (C). The Legacy of Light – Homage to the Schneerson Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP79ECmR1GU “For Inna Rogatchi the camera is an extension of her eye and heart. With them her memory captures quiet but deep passion. Inna’s The Schneerson Family Collection is a keystone to understanding Jewish…
Scripture Reading for July 9, 2916
Torah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32, “Korach” ( Korah … ) Haftorah: I Samuel 11:14 – 12:22 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 23:1 – 12, “Hasofrim ve’haprusim” (Scribes and Pharisees … )