AFP — Israel said Sunday it has okayed hundreds of new settler homes after a gruesome weekend attack in which five Israelis, three of them children, were murdered in their beds in the West Bank. The ministerial committee for settlements, which met late on Saturday, approved construction of several hundred units across in Gush Etzion,…
By RYAN JONES, Israel Today — A Palestinian terrorist on Friday night quietly slipped into a home in the Samarian Jewish community of Itamar and butchered five members of the family living there as they slept. The terrorist broke in through a living room window. He missed eight-year-old Roi Fogel, who was sleeping on the…
For the Sabbath of March 19, 2011. Torah Portion: Leviticus 6:8—8:36, “Tsav” (“Command! …”) Haftorah: Jeremiah 7:21—8:3, 9:22–23 Gospel: Matthew 23:1—12, “Az deber Yeshuah” (“Then Jesus spoke … ”) New Testament: Hebrews 8:1—6
By RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN, International Fellowship of Christians & Jews — This week, an astonishing event has been taking place in universities around the world. The aim of this event, “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW), is, according to its organizers, to “educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system.” Apartheid, of course, was the oppressive…
DAVID HOROWITZ, Front Page — I was not looking forward to my speech at Brooklyn College last night during “Israel Apartheid Week.” The campus atmosphere was so hostile to Jews that no student organization was willing to host my appearance, not even the Jewish organizations – and with 3,500 Jewish students on campus, there were…
CAROLINE GLICK, Jewish World Reveiw, — The most effective way to defend Israel against Obama is to boldly assert, defend and implement a unilateral Israeli plan. Here it is. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is stuck between a diplomatic rock and a political hard place. And his chosen means of extricating himself from the double bind…
For the Sabbath of March 12, 2011. Torah Portion: Leviticus1:1—6:7 (5:26), “VaYikra” (“And he called …”) Haftorah: Isaiah 43:21—44:23 Gospel: John 1:1—14, “Berasheet Haya Hadaver” (“In the beginning was the Word ”) New Testament: Hebrews 10:1—18
BY STAN GOODENOUGH— Something is becoming increasingly and distressingly apparent with every passing month: So many of us Christians who stand with God’s purposes for Israel are way, way behind, and way out of touch. We’re sleeping. We’re dreaming. We’re looking in the wrong direction and, those who are calling out are calling into the…
