Scripture Reading for March 2, 2013
Torah: Exodus 30:11–34:35, “Ki Tisa” (When you take …) Haftorah: I Kings 18:1–39 New Testament: II Corinthians 3:1–18 Gospel: Matthew 26:17–30, “Bar reshon la hag” (On the 1st day of the feast…)
New Knesset Bible study group off to strong start
By ISRAEL TODAY— We have already reported several times on Benjamin Netanyahu’s revival of the Prime Minister’s Bible Study group in Israel. Now the Knesset is getting in on the trend with the establishment of its own weekly sessions of scriptural enlightenment. The initiative came from one of the new Knesset parties, the centrist Yesh…
Anti-Israel evangelical left perpetuates Palestinian suffering
By MARK TOOLEY, FRONTPAGEMAG— Recently “Christianity Today,” the prominent evangelical journal, spotlighted the “Top 5 Books on Israel & Palestine,” as asserted by Gary Burge, a professor at Chicago-area evangelical Wheaton College, one of evangelical America’s most prestigious schools. Burge is a crusader for trying to shift evangelicals away from their typically pro-Israel stance. All…
Obama at Ramallah
By SHOSHANA BRYEN, inSIGHT— President Obama’s plans in the Middle East include three and a half hours in Ramallah to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The president’s hope is to find a mechanism for advancing Israeli-Palestinian “peace.” The appearance of the President of the United States in “Palestine” is calculated to provide Abbas with…
Fundamentally Freund: The case for Judea and Samaria
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— The UN issued a harsh report against Israel aimed at undermining the legitimacy of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria. At the end of January, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared war on Israel, issuing one of the harshest reports against the Jewish state in recent memory. Replete with falsehoods…
Peres and Obama: A love story
By RUTHIE BLUM, ISRAEL HAYOM— It is a rare political leader in Israel who has defiled the concept of peace as consistently and unabashedly as President Shimon Peres. And if it weren’t for the Orwellian universe that much of mankind currently occupies, his endless abuse of the term would have led to his being totally…
Will a notorious anti-Semite become the Pope?
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ, GATESTONE— Among those being considered to succeed Pope Benedict XVI is a notorious anti-Semite, Cardinal Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras. His name has appeared on various media short lists and his photograph was featured, along with other possible candidates, on the front page of the Miami Herald. He was also under consideration…
PM thanks pope for bolstering Christian-Jewish ties
By REUTERS— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu thanked outgoing Pope Benedict on Monday for his efforts to shore up often troubled relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Jews, including with his 2009 visit to the Holy Land. That trip, in which the German-born Benedict paid respects at Israel’s main Holocaust memorial, was seen by many…
The Winds of War in Lebanon
By JONATHAN SCHANZER, FDD POLICY BRIEF— Multiple sources suggest that the winds of war are blowing to Israel’s north, and that such a war could erupt very soon. Lebanese parliamentarian Jean Ogassapian of the Future Bloc issued a warning over the weekend of “dangers of an Israeli strike against Lebanon. There is information that Israel…