By ANNIE LUBIN, ARUTZ 7— The people of Gaza rejoiced Thursday, as they commemorated the one year anniversary of what they perceive as a victory — Israel’s freeing of 1,027 prisoners in exchange for the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, held captive by terrorists for five years. As part of the celebration, Hamas’s…
By PHILIPE ASSOULINE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— I first met Boshra Khalaila in the Spring of 2010, at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy’s offices in Jerusalem. She was 24 at the time. Like me, she’d been alarmed by the public relations debacle that followed the Gaza flotilla incident and had somehow found her way to the…
“It is manifestly right that the scattered Jews should have a national center and a national home and be reunited, and where else but in Palestine, with which for 3,000 years they have been intimately and profoundly associated.” –Winston Churchill, 1920
JCPA and Jewish Groups Pull Plug on Longstanding Dialogue After Church Israel Letter Cancelling an interfaith dialogue meeting, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and other Jewish groups have called for a summit with the heads of Jewish organizations that have been engaged in the roundtable and the heads of the Christian denominations that penned…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— A little more than a week ago, I ascended the Temple Mount together with a group of more than 50 Jews from Ra’anana’s Ohel Ari synagogue. Needless to say, all of us immersed in a mikva (ritual bath) prior to the trip, refrained from wearing leather shoes, and walked only in…
By MARY GRABAR, FRONTPAGEMAG— Will textbook editors rush to include Mitt Romney’s foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute last Monday, as they have with Obama’s speeches and autobiographical writing? It’s very doubtful. Speeches by conservatives and Republican political leaders appear, if at all, as tokens, and are usually surrounded by material that puts…
Torah: Genesis 6:9 — 11:32 “Noach” (Noah) Haftorah: Isaiah 54:1 — 55:5 New Testament: I Peter 3:18 — 22 Gospel: John 3:1 — 21 “Nachdimom” (Nicodmus)
By NAOMI REGAN, naomiregan.com— Dear G: — We have known each other so many years, meeting first through emails that I sent out in support of Israel during that terrible time of senseless terror brought on by the so-called “peace” accords of Oslo. You were a great lover of Israel who fought to bring the…
By Rabbi, Bernhard Rosenberg, ISRAPUNDIT — It should serve as a wake up call for all Jews and Christians who express love for America and Israel. To My Fellow Rabbis: I write to you at this time of dire trouble for our country and for Israel. A couple of weeks ago, America was under attack.…
