BY JEFF JACOBY, THE BOSTON GLOBE— THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE announced to the world the birth of a new nation and every birth “excites our interest,” President Calvin Coolidge said on the Declaration’s 150th anniversary. But that is not why July 4, 1776, “has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in…
“Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.”—Thomas Jefferson
BY GLOBE— The shekel strengthened against the dollar and euro in morning inter-bank trading today after the Myra and Sarah licensees announced a 6.5 trillion cubic foot natural gas discovery – the third largest discovery in Israeli waters to date. The shekel-dollar exchange rate fell 0.51% to NIS 3.408/$ and the shekel-euro exchange rate fell…
Faith Lessons: Chorazin Jesus performed most of his miracles in and around the little known village of Chorazin. More miracles there than Nazareth and even Jerusalem. Yet, the Bible records not one of them – a quiet reminder to the closing words of John’s gospel: “And there are also many other things that Jesus did…”…
BY AVIEL MAGNEZI, YNET— American activists set sail from Greece on Friday aboard a boat set to take part in a pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, defying calls from Israel to cancel it and a ban by Athens. The vessel was stopped by the Greek Coast Guard some 25 minutes after its unauthorized departure. It was…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— For many years, the Left in Israel and throughout the world has upheld the so-called “international community” as the arbiter of all things. From Israel’s right to exist to climate change, from American world leadership to genetically modified crops, the Left has maintained that the “international community,” is the only body…
BY ISRAEL TODAY— The Obama Administration on Wednesday signaled that it will reestablish official ties with Egypt’s rising Islamist power, the Muslim Brotherhood. When former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted earlier this year, the Obama Administration insisted that the Brotherhood was a fringe group, and that detractors were making too big a deal of…
BY JPOST— Opposition leader Tzipi Livni discussed the upcoming Gaza flotilla with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday in New York, according to a Kadima statement. Livni said that anyone who wants to aid Gazan civilians should do so via the proper channels, rather than “grave provocations” like the flotilla. She went on to say…
For July 2 Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1 “Chukat” (This ordinance…) Haftorah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 – 14 Gospel: John 3:14 – 21 “Shehigbihah” (as Moses lifted up…)
