Scripture Reading for October 17, 2015
Torah: Genesis 6:9 – 11:32, “Noach” (Noah … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 – 55:5 New Testament: I Peter 3:18 – 22 Gospel: Matthew 24: 36 – 46, “Aval et ha’yom” (But of that day … )
Third Intifada Most Dangerous of All
By: Unity Coalition for Israel— “Defense Minister Ya’alon is technically correct when he says that the number of victims of each terror attack in this current intifada is less than in the previous intifada,” said Moshe Feiglin on Tuesday. “Thank G-d that until now, we are paying a ‘lower price’ for the short-sightedness and flaccidity…
The Hand that Rocks the Knife
By: Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— Based on his previous “successes,” John Kerry’s pending visit to Israel will either end up achieving nothing or actually increasing the violence. Since Kerry has discovered the reason why so many Palestinian hands are rocking so many knives, it is worth looking into it. In his Harvard lecture this week,…
Spiritual Leader Rabbi Kanievsky: Yell it From Loudspeakers, the Messiah is at the Door
By: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— The Messiah is “standing at the doorway” and it is up to each one of us to usher in his arrival, a leading spiritual leader of the Jewish nation was quoted as saying. Rabbi Chizkiyahu Mishkovsky, the spiritual adviser for several distinguished yeshivot (religious learning centers) in Israel,…
A toothless speech from a defanged Abbas
By: AVI ISSACHAROFF, Times of Israel— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech Wednesday night was delivered not by a leader but by a man being led. The words were those of a man who has little hope and understands that his influence over what is happening these days is limited, a politician who realizes that…
Bret Stephens tells it like it is (WSJ)
By: Bret Stephens— Regarding the causes of this Palestinian blood fetish, Western news organizations have resorted to familiar tropes. Palestinians have despaired at the results of the peace process—never mind that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just declared the Oslo Accords null and void. Israeli politicians want to allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount—never…
KNIVES, ROCKS, and MELODY – A Letter from Jerusalem
By: Inna Rogatchi (C), October 2015— My husband, artist Michael Rogatchi and I flew to Israel for the beginning of Sukkoth, to spend a few weeks there and to participate in the Special Commemorative Film Series of my The Lessons of Survival Film marking the 10th anniversary of Simon Wiesenthal passing. The series were hold…
Do Putin’s Actions in Syria Fulfill the Prophecy of Ezekiel Regarding Gog and Magog?
By: Rivkah Lambert Adler, Breaking Israel News— With Russia’s military involvement in Syria growing by the hour, the conventional belief among many Christians is that Russia is Magog from the End of Days War of Gog and Magog is causing Bible believers to pay especially close attention to what’s going on at Israel’s northern border.…
Mystical Rabbi Receives Frightening Prophetic Message About Jewish Blood Being Spilled in Israel
By: Rivkah Lambert Adler, Breaking Israel News— In another of a series of prophetic-like transmissions, the soul of Rabbi Amram Vaknin, a 76-year-old Israeli mystic, communicated with Heaven after the Jewish Sabbath ended on October 10. The divine message warned of worse things to come in Israel and against the Jewish nation. Speaking to Breaking…
The Kurds, Russia, US and Turkey
By: Ted Belman, Israpundit— The bombing of a pro-Kurdish rally in Ankara highlights the ‘dangerous cocktail’ brewing in Turkey which killed 98 Kurds US Shifts to Helping Kurds in Syria LONDON (CBS) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the America’s failed program to train Syrian rebels will be replaced with a more ‘strategic approach.’ The…