JOEL RICHARDSON — Joel’s Trumpet — What any Christian believes concerning the future—their eschatology—absolutely determines their message and their mission. Likewise, what one believes concerning the nature of the Kingdom of God will also determine their message and their mission. If we believe that the Kingdom of God is a literal, future kingdom (Premillennialism)…
“Only those who cry out for the Jews may also sing the Gregorian chant.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, leading voice among German protestant theologians against Hitler
BY SARAH STERN, EMET— I have a childhood memory of my grandmother in her small Brooklyn apartment crying while holding a faded picture of her huge, beautiful, Hungarian-Jewish family, who, with the exception of one other sibling, perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. One of my aunts, who had the sensitivity of a sledge…
BY YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST— The bombing of a UNIFIL convoy in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night was likely aimed at sending a message to the peacekeeping force to scale back its operations against Hezbollah, Israeli defense officials said on Wednesday. UNIFIL’s mandate is up for renewal in mid-August and the attack is understood in Israel…
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, COMMENTARY On Tuesday, the United States reaffirmed its opposition to Palestinian plans to sidestep negotiations with Israel and declare a state this fall at the United Nations. But Ambassador Susan Rice, Washington’s top representative at the UN, was apparently nowhere to be found. At the last open meeting of the UN Security…
In only 2-minutes you’ll learn the history of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) that you have probably never heard…
For the week of July 30, 2011 Torah: Numbers31:1 – 36:13 “Masai” (Journeys of …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 2:4 – 28; 3:4 New Testament: James 4:1 – 12 Gospel: Matthew 6:25 – 34 “Al Tidagu” (Don’t worry …)
BY DENNIS PRAGER— The citizens of San Francisco will be voting on a proposition that seeks to ban circumcision in that city. Though I am strongly opposed to the proposition, if it passes, some good may come of it. Let me explain. I am a passionate advocate of Jewish ritual known as the bris —…
BY YONATAN SILVERMAN, ARUTZ 7— The Palestinian Authority has been agitating to become a UN member state for two years. It appears they have secured the support of a majority of other member states in the General Assembly to achieve UN recognition as a state. But they will not become members of the organization because…
