Quote of the week
“One’s prayer should be made new each day. As new water flows from the well each hour, so Israel renews its song.” Palestinian Talmud
Scripture Reading for June 18, 2016
Torah: Numbers 4:21 – 7:89, “Naso’ (Lift up … ) Haftorah: Judges 13:2 – 25 New Testament: Acts 17:21 – 26 Gospel: Luke 24:36 – 53, “Uverchem” (He blessed them … )
Hamas Threatens Jordan
By Bassam Tawil, GateStone Institute— The signs near the Al-Aqsa mosque were clear: “The cameras will be broken and the hands that hung them will be cut off.” Installing video cameras near the Al Aqsa mosque would be a painful thorn in the side of all the terrorist organizations. The immensely successful collaborations in the…
WHY DO TERRORISTS COMMIT TERRORISM?
By Unity Coalition for Israel— WASHINGTON — AFTER a terrorist attack like the one in Florida on Sunday, one of the first questions people always ask is: Why? Why would someone take the lives of innocent civilians who are total strangers? That is a question to which I have long sought an answer. But my search…
Our World: Is ISIS a GOP franchise?
By CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST— Is Islamic State opposed to gay marriage? Was anger at the US Supreme Court’s decision mandating recognition of homosexual marriage what prompted Omar Mateen to massacre fifty Americans at the gay nightclub in Orlando on Saturday night? What about gun control? Is Islamic State, to which Mateen announced his allegiance…
New Christian Arab party seeks to change face of Israeli society
By Dror Eydar, Israel Hayom— The events in the Middle East have unleashed deep sociological and ideological processes, of which we are only seeing the beginning. It is not only political Islam in the eye of the media storm. Throughout the various Arab countries in the region, the bruised and battered Christian community is raising its…
‘Next war with Hamas will be its last,’ senior defense source says
By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— The next was between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will be the last for the Islamist regime, a senior source in the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, though he stressed that Israel will not be the side to initiate hostilities. Israel has no desire to control the Gaza Strip, the source…
How Anti-Semitism Became Respectable Again
By David Goldman, PJMedia— The world was anti-Semitic in 1944, when Ben Hecht wrote A Guide for the Bedevilled. The majority of educated, civilized, and rational people believed that the Jews in some fashion had brought their own problems upon themselves. Hecht began fighting anti-Semitism after an unsettling exchange with a New York hostess, who…
Quote of the Week
Why don’t men play the man? Why don’t they offer their strength to a world desperately in need of it? — John Eldredge from Wild at Heart
Israel chief rabbi urges rebuilding Jerusalem temple
BY SUE SURKES, Times of Israel— The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, said he would like to see the Jewish temple rebuilt on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. To build it, there was no need to remove any of the Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount, where there was plenty of room for…