Scripture Reading for January 17, 2015
Torah: Exodus 6:2 – 9:35, “Va’era” (and I appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 – 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 – 33 Gospel: John 4:19 – 26, “Ani ro’ah” (I see …)
French Jews Face Hate They Left Africa to Escape
fBy YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, RUTH BENDER and JASON CHOW, WSJ— (Donate Today to help French Jews make Aliyah!) Every Friday, Johanna Bettach, a pregnant mother of two, stocks up on weekend supplies at the Hyper Cacher supermarket. Last week, just before she was getting ready to shop, an Islamist militant gunned down four Jewish customers at…
The antisemitic derangement
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— Even before last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the French prime minister was concerned about the continued viability of Jewish life in France. In an interview with The Atlantic prior to the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket massacres, Manuel Valls made a grim prediction: “If 100,000 Jews leave, France will…
Hillary Clinton Labels Israel An Occupying Force
By MATTHEW MCCABE, GND NEWS— Since its creation in 1947, there has been no greater friend of Israel on the international stage than the United States of America. When the Jewish state was founded, it was supplied with arms, weapons, and military supplies for the fledgling country. Throughout the 20th century, America stood beside its…
The gall of the Gauls
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— For the past few days, the world’s attention has been focused on Paris, where a band of Islamic terrorists went on a rampage, attacking the offices of a satirical magazine and a kosher market and brutally snuffing out the lives of 17 innocent people. Millions of people took to the streets…
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…
Spot Report: Death to the Saturday and Sunday people
Think on this: “There has no test or temptation taken you but such is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tested or tempted beyond what you are able, but will with the test or temptation provide a way of escape, that you may be able to bear…
Netanyahu tells Jews time has come to leave France
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— In the wake of two terror attacks that claimed the lives of 17 people, France is gearing up for a giant unity rally on Sunday with world leaders expected to attend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli governmental leaders will be in attendance. On Friday, shortly before…
Sharansky: Paris massacre shows time running out for Europe
By RAPHAEL AHREN— On the day after Islamist terrorists massacred 12 people in the heart of Paris, committing what some called France’s 9/11, Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky resisted the temptation to use the tragedy to push for upped immigration to Israel from an increasingly dangerous France. “We’re not building our aliyah strategy on tragic…