Scripture Reading for September 20, 2014
Torah: Deuteronomy 29:10 – 30:20, “Nitzavim” (Keep the words …) Haftorah: Isaiah 61:10 – 63:9 New Testament: Romans 10:1 – 18 Gospel: Matthew 24:29 – 35, “Miyad achareh” (Immediately after … )
Wish I’d said that
“The Jews gave us a whole new vocabulary, a whole new Temple of the Spirit, an inner landscape of ideas and feelings that had never been known before…Because of their unique belief—monotheism—the Jews were able to give us the Great Whole a unified universe that makes sense and that, because of its evident superiority as…
‘Occupation’ and anti-Semitism
By EVELYN GORDAN, COMMENTARY— A Yale University chaplain recently resigned “on his own initiative” over a letter to the New York Times blaming Israel and the Jews for anti-Semitism. Clearly, nothing Israel does or doesn’t do justifies attacks on Jewish citizens of other countries, but even if it did, Rev. Bruce Shipman’s reasoning would have…
Video: Hamas rap
Hamas, a terrorist organization similar to Isis, rules over the Gaza strip. In the summer of 2014 Hamas provoked a war with Israel. Hamas is Palestinian, but it oppresses the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza and launches rockets into Israel to terrorize Israeli civilians. Hamas calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of…
Wish I’d said that
“Peace under a semblance of peace is but a manifold illusion.”—W.B. Yeats
ISIS Popularity Growing in Israel
By ISRAEL TODAY— As the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) inches closer to Israel in its sweeping conquest of Iraq and Syria, the real threat is that the extremist movement will gain a large number of followers in the Holy Land long before its current warriors reach the borders of the Jewish state. A recent government…
Prayer points for Israel
REPENTANCE FOR SIN AGAINST ISRAEL: Respond with: Lord forgive us and have mercy on us. Abba YHVH, we confess our sin to you as a nation in regard to our words, actions, and motives concerning Israel. –We have not loved what You love, nor hated what You hate. We have not honored and defended, what…
Ted Cruz booed for supporting Israel at Christian conference
By ARI SOFFER, ARUTZ 7— Leading Republican Senator and Christian supporter of Israel Ted Cruz (R-Tx) was booed off stage at a gala dinner in support of the Middle East’s embattled Christian minority, after voicing support for Israel. Cruz was the keynote speaker at the event, hosted by the recently-founded In Defense of Christians (IDC)…
UN houses, but does not sponsor, anti-Semitism conference
By CATHRYN J. PRINCE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— On the third floor of the United Nations, just two doors down from the Security Council, more than 500 people gathered this week for a conference on the rise of anti-Semitism. For some, the location was a touch ironic. Because it wasn’t the UN that decided to address…
The Conditions of Victory
By SHOSHANA BRYEN, GATESTONE— The Israeli public is in a notably bad mood. The Hamas rockets have, for the time being, stopped; the current cease-fire is holding. The tunnel threat, a strategic one most Israelis had not understood until several days into the war, has been alleviated; many Hamas rocket manufacturing facilities have been destroyed;…