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Obama insists on “two state” solution

Tripartite Meeting Launched With Handshake and Admonition

by Hana Levi Julian

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas began with a handshake and an admonition by the American leader.

In a choreographed gesture that mirrored similar moves by former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and then-PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and former Prime [...]

Carter again calls for Israel to cede territory

Carter says Israel must stop building settlements

Israel must stop building settlements in Palestinian territories if peace is ever to be achieved in the Middle East, former President Jimmy Carter said Monday night as he received an award at a Virginia university for his humanitarian efforts.

“As President Barack Obama has made clear, the [...]

‘Holocaust Survivor’ Torah Comes to Life

‘Holocaust Survivor’ Torah Comes to Life in Miami

A 19th century Czechoslovakian Torah scroll, which was stolen by the Nazis and later sold by Communist rulers, will be used for the first time in a Miami, Florida synagogue on the first day of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, which falls on the Sabbath [...]

Netanyahu: The Land of Israel Will Be Divided

[ Theologically, this is catastrophic... We are surely living in the prophesied End of Days. The "table" is being set, chaverim... ]

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(IsraelNN.com) The Israel HaYom newspaper reveals a leftist turn for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Speaking in an interview to be published Thursday, the Prime Minister admitted he had come to terms with [...]

600 New Israelis Make Aliyah

(IsraelNN.com) Hundreds of new immigrants arrived in Israel on Sunday from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The Jewish Agency plans to bring hundreds more in the course of this week, in the days leading up to the Rosh Hashanah holiday.

A total of approximately 600 new immigrants from the CIS are expected to [...]

Time is drawing near…

(IsraelNN.com) Another Aliyah flight arrived Tuesday bringing 238 North American Jews.  This photo essay gives you a glimpse of the great moment — through signs.

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David Flusser – Reclaiming Jesus from Christianity?

[ The late Dr. Flusser is sort of an evangelist for a "liberal" idea of Jesus -- not unlike what the German Higher Critical Schools attempted to do last century... What makes this disturbing, however, is that many in Israel appear to be listening to his "reconstructed" views of Jesus... ]

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Dutch to Prosecute Muslim Group Over Holocaust Caricature

Dutch to Prosecute Muslim Group Over Holocaust Caricature

by David Lev

Prosecutors in the Netherlands have decided to charge an Arab group for publishing a caricature on its website that insults the memory of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. The caricature, according to prosecutors in the Dutch city of Utrecht, insults [...]

Obama praises Islam at Ramadan meal

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised American Muslims for enriching the nation’s culture at a dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

“The contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country,” Obama said [...]

World’s Largest Temple Model Inaugurated next to Temple Mount

[ How cool is this? A model of the Second Temple -- the one Yeshua walked in -- located just across from the site of the original Temple! ]

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(IsraelNN.com) The world’s largest model of the Holy Temple was inaugurated Wednesday only a few hundred meters away from the Temple Mount, the site where [...]

Can Third Temple be built without destroying Dome of the Rock?

A new Jewish interfaith initiative launched last week argues building the Third Jewish Temple in Jerusalem would not necessitate the destruction of the Dome of the Rock.

“God’s Holy Mountain Vision” project hopes to defuse religious strife by showing that Jews’ end-of-days vision could harmoniously accommodate Islam’s present architectural hegemony on the Temple Mount.

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Madonna’s concerts in Israel are “against Jewish law”

‘Madonna Forbidden to Sing in Israel’ says Top Kabbalah Rabbi

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Madonna and her entourage splashed into Israel for two shows, but leading Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri expressed sorrow that Israelis put out the red carpet for the non-Jewish star who dabbles in Kabbalah. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Opposition leader [...]

Only 4% of Israeli Jews think Obama is pro-Israel

4% of Israeli Jews: Obama pro-Israel

(Jerusalem Post) The number of Israelis who see US President Barack Obama’s policies as pro-Israel has fallen to four percent, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of The Jerusalem Post.

Fifty-one percent of Jewish Israelis consider Obama’s administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel, according [...]

What is the greater obstacle for peace in the Middle East?

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Obama Plan: Temple Mount Under Arab-Muslim Sovereignty

(IsraelNN.com) The Middle East peace plan that United States President Barack Obama will unveil soon involves the creation of a Palestinian Authority state by 2011 and the transfer of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem [presumably including the Temple Mount – ed.] to Arab-Muslim sovereignty, Saudi newspaper Al-Ukaz has learned.

According to the report published [...]

Obama’s Rosh Hashanah Wish

[ What's esp. so disturbing about this is that Obama had the nerve to quote the Holiday Machzor and claim this idea was somehow part of Rosh Hashanah. Mr. Obama -- let me remind you: The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL is the One who gives life and death -- not politicians like you... May the [...]

Israelis sour on Rahm Emanuel

[ I take issue with the statement (below) that Mr. Emanuel is an "observant" Jew...  If he was, he'd love Torah and Israel...  His actions, however, reveal him to be an enemy of Israel's interests. ]

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As the Obama administration presses Israel to cease settlement expansion as part of a renewed push for [...]

Rabbis Fly Over Israel with Shofars to fight Swine Flu

Dozens of rabbis fly over Israel praying to defeat swine flu

(Haaretz)  Dozens of rabbis and Kabbalah mystics armed with ceremonial trumpets took to the skies over Israel on Monday to battle the swine flu virus, according to local media reports.

About 50 Jewish holy men chanted prayers and blew shofars (ritual rams’ horns) [...]

Obama ready to reveal Mideast Peace Plan

[ Here we go again... If Obama is hailed as a hero of both Israel and the Arab States, watch out...  This is a telltale sign. ]

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Barack Obama is close to revealing plan for Middle East peace

James Hider in Jerusalem

The Obama Administration is close to presenting its plan for peace [...]

John Bolton – Magag War by end of 2009?

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Idan Raichel – Scraps of Life

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Did Jesus reveal name of the ‘antichrist’?

[Note that I posted this update about a week ago on the Hebrew4Christians Q&A forum.]

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Recently Worldnetdaily ran an inflamatory article that seemed to endorse the idea that Jesus Himself revealed the name of the Antichrist as (ahem) “Barack Obama.”  You can watch the original video here:  

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Preachers arrested in Norway

Pastor’s conviction for preaching challenged

Decision will be important for freedom of speech, religion

The case against an American arrested for talking in public about Jesus in Norway has been appealed to the European Court of Human Rights by an attorney who says the resulting decision will have a major impact on the rights [...]

Obama slammed as ‘racist’ at Jerusalem rally

JERUSALEM – President Obama’s policies against Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank were slammed as “racist” today by participants in a rally drawing about 2,000 Israelis in front of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem.

“George Mitchell go home!” yelled protestors in front of the U.S. government building.

Mitchell, Obama’s envoy [...]

Messianics in the IDF

Jesus supports the IDF and he wants his believers to be the best soldiers they can be.

That was the message conveyed by members of the local Messianic Jewish community via sacred texts, prayer and talks, to a group of 18-year-olds who took part this week in a premilitary program called Netsor.

“I [...]

Did Obama lie to Jews?

by Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – American Jewish leaders are up in arms over recent U.S demands against Jewish construction in Jerusalem, pointing out that during the presidential campaign President Obama repeatedly told Jewish audiences that Jerusalem must remain undivided.

“I believe that on the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of Iran Obama intentionally [...]

Rabbis to Obama: Back Off

Rabbis to Obama: Stop pressing on capital

‘You don’t want to enter list of those who raised a hand against Jerusalem’

by Aaron Klien

JERUSALEM – Leading rabbis in Israel released a petition yesterday demanding President Obama cease pressuring the Jewish state on the issue of Jerusalem.

“Jerusalem is off limits, and we respectfully [...]

2nd of 3 consecutive solar eclipses on Av 1

The moon will hide the face of the sun again this month (Wednesday, July 22, 2009) in the longest solar eclipse in this 21st century. “It will be a monster, with a totality lasting more than 6.6 minutes at maximum,” say Fred Espenak and Jay Anderson, writers for Sky & Telescope magazine.

You may [...]

Obama’s ‘self-hating Jews’

Obama’s ‘self-hating Jews’

By Akiva Eldar

Who is to blame for the latest dispute with the United States over the new neighborhood going up in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah area? Mayor Nir Barkat? Certainly not. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stood behind him? Ridiculous. Any child knows that everything is the fault of other Jews: [...]

Protected: John Piper and Federal Vision Heresy

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Orthodox Hate in the Holy City

Reporter feels mob’s hate in the Holy City

By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker

…By the time I realised I’d come up the wrong street it was too late.

I suddenly found myself in the thick of the protest – in the midst of hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in their long coats and sable-fur [...]

Before you Boycott Israel…

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Spitting on Christians in Jerusalem

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

By Amiram Barkat

(HAARETZ) A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on [...]

Piper’s Perpetual Plummet!

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Piper’s Perpetual Plummet!

by The Desert Pastor

I recognize some of our readers are not going to be pleased with this post, but we believe it is necessary to point out error when it occurs. Too many within evangelicalism hold some men in high regard to the point that they will accept all [...]

Protected: John Piper and “Easter”

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