Scripture reading for March 24, 2012
Torah: Leviticus 1:1-6:7 “Vayikra” (And he called …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18 New Testament: Hebrews 10:1-18 Gospel: John 1:29-34 “Lemachrat” (The next day …)
Netanyahu condemns 'loathsome murder of Jews' in France
BY GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to a shooting incident outside of a French Jewish school on Monday, calling the attack “a loathsome murder of Jews, which included small children.” Speaking at a Likud faction meeting, Netanyahu said that it was too soon to say what the background of the attack in…
Iran threatens N. Israel with bombardment from Lebanon
BY DEBKAFILE— Tehran has begun capitalizing on its allies’ two perceived victories: Bashar Assad’s success in seizing Idlib from rebel hands and the Palestinian Jihad Islami’s triumphal missile assault from Gaza. The Iranians are now moving forward with plans to match the Palestinian assault on southern Israel with an offensive on the north from Lebanon.…
Israel and Gaza in the New Middle East
BY SAMARA GREENBERG, inCONTEXT— Israel’s south found some respite from rocket fire this week after four days of unrelenting attacks from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. All is not quiet, however, as Gaza’s militants continue to launch rockets sporadically at Israeli towns, forcing Israel to counterattack, despite the Egyptian-brokered truce that unofficially ended the…
Putting Israel's home front at risk
BY MICHAEL FREUND— Yesterday, more than 265,000 children across southern Israel returned to school after enduring several days of Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. However unappealing the tedium of the classroom may be for many of them, most are nonetheless surely happy that the risk of attack has dissipated, at least for now. Indeed, scenes…
Obama’s words disguise his Israel foreign policy actions
BY EARL COX— President Barack Obama challenged Americans and Israel to judge him by his deeds, not his words, when it comes to US-Israel relations. If we are to do so, the conclusion can only be that the president is taking a very dangerous path for both America and its top ally in the Middle…
Israel strikes oil off Tel Aviv coast
BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Israel has struck oil again, this time off the Tel Aviv coast. Developers maintain the find includes 100 million barrels of oil, worth $10 billion. Modiin Energy and Adira Energy discovered an estimated 128 million barrels of oil and 1.8 trillion cubic feet of gas in their Gabriella and…
Koshering Jesus More
BY PAUL DE VRIES, NY DIVINITY SCHOOL— “Please remember that Jesus is a Jew,” I said to my Jewish colleagues at our Jewish-Evangelical Roundtable in late December 2011. Then, to the Christian participants, I said, “Please remember that without Hanukkah, there would have been no Christmas.” For the next three weeks we Jews and Christians…
Arab church that backs Israel shuttered by Palestinian Authority
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— The First Baptist Church in Bethlehem was ordered closed by the Palestinian Authority on Saturday, according to Rabbi Russell Resnik of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations. Resnik reported the incident after meeting with Pastor Steven Khoury, the son of First Baptist’s head pastor, Naim Khoury. “Steven told me that…a…