Scripture Reading for June 28, 2014
Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1, “Chukat” (Decree of …) Haftorah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 – 28 Gospel: John 3:10 – 21, “Ata moreh?” (You are a teacher?…)
Hamas Leader: We Can Bomb Any City in Israel
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar on Tuesday issued a direct threat against Israel. Al-Zahar, who spoke at a memorial ceremony for terrorists who died in a “work accident”, declared that Hamas has rockets that can hit any city in Israel. He further said that during Operation Pillar of Defense in…
Israeli mothers try to shake an indifferent world
By BOAZ BISMUTH, ISRAEL HAYOM— As the mothers of the other two kidnapped Israeli teens sat behind her, Rachel Frenkel, the mother of Naftali Frenkel, made a moving plea before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday. After Frenkel’s speech, I saw two Muslim representatives outside, one from Western Sahara and the…
Dozens of suspected Palestinian terror tunnels, weapons labs discovered in West Bank
By ABE KATSMAN, BREITBART— The Israeli military has discovered dozens of suspected terror tunnels and weapons laboratories in the Hebron area during Operation Brother’s Keeper, the operation to find three teen boys kidnapped by Hamas, reports Israeli news site Ynet. Members of Israel’s elite engineering unit Yahalom uncovered the tunnels and laboratories while searching for…
Netanyahu slams ‘disgraceful’ Presbyterian divestment
By LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the decision of the US Presbyterian Church to divest from three companies that provide supplies to the IDF and residents of Judea and Samaria. Dubbing the recent vote “disgraceful,” Netanyahu told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “most Americans understand that Israel is a…
Syria Asks UN to Take Action Against Israel
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, on Sunday asked the United Nations to take actions against Israel, claiming it violated the 1974 ceasefire agreement in the Golan Heights. According to Syria’s SANA news agency, Mekdad spoke with the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, who is visiting…
Messianic Jewish Leaders Oppose Presbyterian Divestment from Israel
By the International Messianic Jewish community Amid continuing efforts to pressure and marginalize the state of Israel through boycotts and economic sanctions, the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly, meeting in Detroit, June 14-21, will consider proposals to pressure Israel through financial divestment. Amid reports of growing worldwide anti-Semitism, the church’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network offers “Zionism Unsettled,”…
Judaism: Parashat Korach and President Truman
By RABBI NACHMAN KAHANA, ARUTZ 7— When Harry Truman replaced F.D. Roosevelt as President of the United States it never dawned upon him that he would order the use of the Atomic Bomb. So what were the horrendous circumstances that forced him to unleash the most lethal weapon ever devised by man until that time?…