Scripture Reading for May 31, 2014
Torah: Numbers 4:21 – 89, “Naso” (Lift up …) Haftorah: Judges 13:2 – 25 New Testament: Acts 21: 17 – 26 Gospel: Mark 1: 4 – 17. ” Ychanon Ha matbil” (John came baptizing …)
Pope Francis and the charismatic movement
By LARS ENARSON, ICZC— On May 25, Pope Francis will begin his two-day visit to the Holy Land. It will begin in Bethlehem with a large mass together with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas. Palestinians are already celebrating the visit, saying his choice to begin the trip directly in PA-held Bethlehem is meant to “recognize Palestine,”…
More members of US congress set to visit Judea and Samaria
By ANAV SILVERMAN, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Since last summer, 16 US Congressmen have toured through Judea and Samaria including two recent visitors, Andy Harris (R-Maryland) and Ron DeSantis (R-Florida), who toured the region with the Yesha Council on a Yes! Israel Mission last week. The two members of the US House of Representatives and their…
Pope to lay wreath on grave of Theodor Herzl
By ARI YASHAR, ARUTZ SHEVA— Pope Francis will arrive in Israel next Sunday, where he intends to make a symbolic gesture apologizing for an historic injustice made by the Vatican 110 years ago. In 1904, Zionist leader Theodor Herzl visited the Vatican to ask Pope Pius the Tenth to help establish a modern Jewish state…
Movement on the Mount
By MICHAEL FREUND— After several exasperating decades, one of the thorniest and most painful issues on Israel’s public agenda may at last be heading toward a resolution. In a move underlining the national consensus regarding the Temple Mount, Likud MK Miri Regev and Labor MK Hilik Bar have reached across the aisle to prepare a…
Wish I’d said that
“In our own lives God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time.”–Rabbi Joshua Heschel
Knesset Bill Would Allow Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount
By JTA— Two MKs from Likud and Labor have collaborated to propose a law that would allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Written by Likud MK Miri Regev and Labor MK Hilik Bar, the law would reverse the current ban on Jewish prayer on the mount, considered Judaism’s holiest site. The current ban…
Letting go of Abbas
By CAROLINE GLICK— What makes PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tick? In 2008, when Abbas rejected then prime minister Ehud Olmert’s expansive offer of Palestinian statehood, he did so for the same reason that Yassir Arafat rejected then prime minister Ehud Barak’s expansive offer of Palestinian statehood at Camp David in 2000.…
Israel to strengthen ties with Latin America
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST— The government on Sunday approved a three-year NIS 50 million plan to strengthen its economic ties with at least five Latin American countries, meant to help Israel decrease its dependency on Europe as the primary trading partner. The plan focuses on Costa Rica and the four countries that make up the…