Wish I’d said that
“Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore.”—Charles Spurgeon, 1855
Is rebuilding Gaza more important than halting Ebola?
By MICHAEL FREUND— This past Sunday, some 50 nations from around the world gathered for a major donor conference aimed at raising billions of dollars to tackle what organizers described as an urgent humanitarian predicament. A host of prominent figures, including UN Secretary- General Ban Ki Moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Norwegian…
Temple Mount riot foiled
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Jerusalem Police units stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound early Monday and prevented dozens of masked assailants from carrying out a planned attack. The assailants had amassed on Temple Mount with rocks and fireworks with the intention of confronting police and disrupting the peace. Overnight, the assailants gathered weapons and prepared Molotov cocktails…
Operation SOS instead of High Holidays – Jewish Life in the Eastern Ukraine
by INNA ROGATCHI— With recent Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur celebrations all over the Jewish world, it is worth to reflect on the Jews jammed in between two sides of the non-stopping conflict in Ukraine, especially in its Eastern part. How there were celebrating their main holiday? How the New Year in their lives has…
Scripture Reading for October 18, 2014
Torah: Genesis 1:1 – 6:8, “Beresheet” (In the beginning…) Haftorah: Isaiah 42:5 – 43:11 New Testament: Colossians 1:15 – 20 Gospel: John 1:1 – 14, “Beresheet” (In the beginning …)
America Praises and Supports Terrorist Government
By DAVID RUBIN, INN— The post-Gaza war period has seen some disturbing statements and actions by the United States political leadership that call into serious question its reliability, as the leader of the free world and as a trusted ally of Israel. The American air attacks on the Islamic State (otherwise known as ISIS, ISIL…
Bringing happiness to Iran
By CAROLINE GLICK– It is still unclear what happened on Sunday night at Iran’s illicit nuclear installation at Parchin. According to Iranian sources, there was a large explosion that rocked the area within a 15-km. radius of the facility. Two people were reportedly injured. According to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and Israel, the…
Europe’s alarming new anti-Semitism
By JONATHAN SACKS, WSJ— This year, Europe’s Jews enter Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, with a degree of apprehension I have not known in my lifetime. Anti-Semitism has returned to Europe within living memory of the Holocaust. Never again has become ever again. In France, worshipers in a synagogue were surrounded…
Wish I’d said that
“It may be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archaeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements of the Bible.”—Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert