Scripture Reading for January 3, 2015
Torah: Genesis 47:28 – 50:26, “Vayechi” (and he lived …) Haftorah: I Kins 2:1 – 12 New Testament: I Peter 1:3 – 9 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Lo choshev” (Do not think …)
Myths about Israel and Zionism
By GERALD MCDERMOTT, ROANOKE TIMES– Once again, Israel is at the top of the news. Jeffrey Goldberg reports in the Atlantic that the Obama administration is “red-hot” over Israel’s recent announcements of new building in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. This kerfuffle comes on top of Israeli denunciations of Irish and British statements recognizing…
Quote of the Week
“The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” –George Washington (1779)
What if Jesus was born now?
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN, BIN— The recent wave of terrorist incidents that has Israelis looking over their shoulders—both literally and figuratively—overlapping with the holiday season, got me thinking: What if Jesus were born today? As 2014 ends, Israelis have been plagued with war, increased terrorism, and an ongoing incitement of violence and worse. Jesus was a…
ISIS Closing in on Israel from the North and the South
By RIYADH MOHAMMED— The war against ISIS is taking a dangerous, perhaps inevitable turn. The terror organization has been keen to expand to southern Syria and the Syrian capital of Damascus. Now it says it has recruited three Syrian rebel groups operating in the south of the country in an area bordering the Israeli occupied…
Scripture Reading for December 27, 2014
Torah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 28 New Testament: Ephesians 2:11 – 22 Gospel: Hebrews 10:5 – 10, “Behechaneso” ( when He came …)
Video: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Christmas greeting
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wishes a merry Christmas to Israel’s Christian citizens and to Christians throughout the world!
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor’s amazing speech at the UN
Mr. President, I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. I stand tall before you knowing that truth and morality are on my side. And yet, I stand here knowing that today in this Assembly, truth will be turned on its head and morality cast…
When “Jihad” Johnny comes marching home
By RON JAGER— Islamic terrorist organizations received an unanticipated victory after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A short time thereafter, the Russian army unilaterally withdrew from Afghanistan, resulting in their humiliating defeat, and this war became the first “Jihad” war in modern history that attracted Muslims, mainly Sunnis, from all over the Arab world…
A Maccabean solution for the Gaza Strip
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This past Friday, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket into southern Israel without any provocation, setting off air-raid sirens and rekindling fears of a return to this past summer’s hostilities. Indeed, although barely four months have passed since the end of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas is said to be actively…