Scripture Reading for April 13, 2013
Torah: Leviticus 21:1 — 13:59 ” Tazria” (A woman has conceived …) Haftorah: II Kings 7:3 –20 New Testament: Acts 4:27 — 31 Gospel: Matthew 8:1 — 17, “Hu ya’rad” (He came down …)
Sharp rise in global anti-Semitism, France leads
by SHAHAR CHAI, YNET— According to a new report on global anti-Semitism, 2012 registered a 30% increase in anti-Semitic acts compared to 2011. These acts include vandalism and direct threats on Jewish lives. Numbering 686 in 2012, they followed two years of general decline in such incidents. Among the countries listed, France has the dubious…
Yom HaShoah
By SHEILA RAVIV — Yom HaShoah ve HaGvura 28th Nissan, 5773 – Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust and its Heroism. The Nazis yelled “Go back to Jerusalem” to us – now their heirs yell “Go back to Europe”. Never Again becomes little more than a knee-jerk reaction, because it is again, it is happening…
Flirting with Terrorism, Condoning Genocide
By GIULIO MEOTTI — ARUTZ7 Jews who cooperate with the enemy, German or Communist Jews in the past and leftist Israeli journalists today, cannot wash the blood from their hands. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union creates the “anti-Zionist committee”. It has to fight against Israel’s claim of “national exclusivity of the chosen people”.…
Sabeel Christian Anti-Zionist Organization Gains Power
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Dexter Van Zile, CAMERA analyst: “Sabeel has succeeded in turning anti-Zionism into a competing religious practice in American mainstream churches and a persistent element in Protestant thought”. “In 1994, Reverend Naim Ateek established the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. This Anglican priest who holds Israeli nationality, and his associates,…
Are 'Palestinian people' a myth?
Erick Stakelbeck educates Obama on history of Jews in Middle East
Natural gas changes the Middle East
By ELLIOTT ABRAMS, PRESSURE POINTS— Last Saturday (March 30) Israel took a large step toward energy independence, as natural gas from the smaller of its newly discovered Mediterranean gas fields began to flow. By the end of this decade Israel will not only be supplying its own needs fully, but exporting natural gas to the…
Rockets, mortars fired at Israel's south, IAF strikes Gaza
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Palestinian terrorists fired two rockets at the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Wednesday morning. The rockets exploded in an open area and no injuries or damage were reported. The attacks followed strikes by the Israel Air Force against two terror targets in Gaza Strip on Tuesday night, which in turn followed…
How the Media missed a mideast breakthrough
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER— “I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those Palestinian kids, they’d say I want these kids to succeed.” Barack Obama, in Jerusalem, March 21 Very true. But how does the other side feel about Israeli kids? Consider that the most revered parent in Palestinian society is Mariam Farhat…
Celebrating Christ's Resurrection at the Garden Tomb
By RYAN JONES, TRAVELUJAH— Huddled in a hidden alley in East Jerusalem, hundreds of Christians from all corners of the world waited quietly in the crisp pre-dawn air to enter the idyllic Garden Tomb. They had come to commemorate the resurrection of Christ, and they would not remain quiet for long. Having attended the Garden…