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…
Arabs claim Pope Will ‘Recognize Palestine’
By ARUTZ SHEVA— Palestinian Authority (PA) and Arab Christian sources are already celebrating Pope Francis’s visit to Israel starting next Sunday, saying his choice to begin the trip directly in PA-held Bethlehem is meant to “recognize Palestine” and “oppose the occupation.” “He is taking a helicopter directly from Jordan to Palestine – to Bethlehem. It’s…
Scripture reading for May 24, 2014
Torah: Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 “Bamidbar” (In the desert … ) Haftorah: Hosea 2:1 – 23 New Testament: Romans 9:22 – 23 Gospel: Luke 24: 36 – 51 “Shalom lechem” (Peace to you …)
Jerusalem Imam calls for invasion of Israel
By ISRAEL TODAY— An imam at the Al Aqsa Mosque atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount has publicly urged the armies of the Arab world to invade Israel thus fulfill the great Muslim longing of destroying the hated “Zionist entity.” In a televised sermon from Milan, Italy that was broadcast by Al Jazeera, Imam Raed Al-Daan said…
Anti-Semitism in America
By ROBERT HORENSTEIN, JPOST– IT WASN’T that long ago that Jews in America felt more comfortable and secure than ever before. Jew hatred finally seemed to be a thing of the past. Polls conducted by the Anti-Defamation League showed a marked decline in the number of Americans holding anti-Semitic views, from 29 percent of the…
Poll says anti-Semitism is global matter
By NAFTALI BENDAVID, WALL STREET JOURNAL— About a quarter of the world’s population agrees that a number of negative statements about Jews are “probably true,” according to a poll aimed at providing a statistical underpinning to the question of how widespread anti-Semitism is globally. In the survey to be released Tuesday, which covered 101 countries…