Scripture Reading for April 16, 2016
Torah: Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33, “Metzora” (Leper …) Haftorah: Malachi 3:4 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 7:11 – 28 Gospel: Matthew 8:1 – 17, “Metzora” (Leper … )
Sanders’ new Jewish outreach director sees ‘F— you’ Netanyahu post go viral
By JPOST Staff, JPOST— Bernie Sanders’ recently hired Jewish outreach coordinator condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year in an expletive-ridden social media post accusing him of sanctioning mass murder. The Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday reported that it had obtained screenshots of Simone Zimmerman’s original post full of obscenities and a later edited version…
Jews welcome Dutch church declaration calling Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism ‘unacceptable’
By World Jewish Congress— In a text published at a seminar in Utrecht on Monday, the PKN declares that Luther’s anti-Jewish statements were “unacceptable” and part of the “dark pages” of Lutheran church history. Rabbi Raphael Evers of the Dutch Jewish umbrella organization NIK welcomed the declaration, saying: “I sometimes get the question whether the…
Is Obama planning his revenge on Netanyahu?
By DANA SOMBERG, JPOST— During his final year in the White House, US President Barack Obama is preparing a metaphorical roadside IED for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It cannot be that the tainted relations between the two leaders will not end with Obama exacting some sweet revenge.” Variations of the above statement have been uttered…
Comment: Accusing Bernie Sanders of ‘blood libel’ – the future of US-Israel relations
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST— He accused us of bloog libel. He accused us of bombing hospitals. He accused us of killing 10,000 Palestinian civilians. Don’t you think that merits an apology?” asked former ambassador to the US and current MK Michael Oren. He was reacting to an April 4 interview with US Democratic presidential…
Quote of the Week
“Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows it might even be our religion from which the world…
Inconvenient genocide
By Caroline Glick, Jpost— The Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are well on the way to joining their Jewish cousins. The Jewish communities of these states predated Islam by a millennium, and were vibrant until the 20th century. But the Arab world’s war on the Jewish state, and more generally on Jews,…
Video: Abbas tells Palestinians entire state of Israel “occupied”
By Ruthie Blum, Algemeiner— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks in “two languages” when articulating his policies on Israel, a Jerusalem-based research institute reported on Wednesday. According to the Palestinian Media Watch report, when Abbas addresses Palestinians – and through his PA-controlled media — he consistently refers to the entire state of Israel as “occupied” territory.…
Russia’s S-300 Defense Missile System To Be Shipped To Iran Soon, Report Says
By Suman Varandani, International Business Times— Russia will begin the first shipment of the S-300 air defense missile system to Iran in the coming days, Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying Tuesday. “I don’t know if this will happen today, but they (S-300 missiles) will be loaded (for shipment to Iran),”…
Turkey is playing a ‘double game’ with Israel
By Ari Yashar, Israel National News— Senior sources in the Israeli security establishment accused Turkey on Thursday of playing a “double game” in rapprochement talks with Israel, even as the negotiating teams on both sides met the same day in an undisclosed location. “There isn’t really anyone to talk with in Turkey. At this point…