Emergency Situation Declared As Palestinians Breach Ben Gurion Airport
As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me. Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honor as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud. (Job 30:14-15) Two Palestinians in a speeding truck penetrated the first security barrier at Ben Gurion […]
Opinion: The Obama Administration’s Hypocrisy Towards Israel Exposed
This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him (Job 13:16) The current (and past, for that matter) Obama administration is the quintessential embodiment of “Chutzpah” in the worst way possible. Chutzpah, originally a Yiddish word, has now officially made it into the American lexicon. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, […]
Freund: Synagogues Ablaze in the Holy Land
Last week marked the eighth anniversary on the Hebrew calendar of one of the darkest chapters in Israel’s recent past. It was on the 8th of Elul, 5765, (September 12, 2005), that Israel stood by and watched as Palestinian mobs ransacked synagogues abandoned by the Jewish state after the withdrawal from Gaza and the expulsion […]
Israel Releases First Prisoners as Peace Talks Resume
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee (Deuteronomy 28:48) On Tuesday morning, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected […]
Israel Receiving Christian Support From Without and Within
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel (Proverbs 27:9) Christians from both Israel and abroad have came out in staunch support of the Jewish State this week. First, On Monday, according to JNS.org, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), a Christian Zionist organization based in […]
Israel Plans to Build New Homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem
All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers (Deuteronomy 8:1) Despite the ongoing peace negotiations taking place in Washington, Israeli Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel promised to continue […]
Israel Goes to Battle With EU Over Settlement Ban
In the Jewish Oral Text Pirkei Avot, or Ethics of the Father, a compilation of ethical teachings and maxims, in Chapter 1 Verse 7 Nittai the Arbelite warns “Keep far from an evil neighbor and do not associate with the wicked”. Israel may be taking these words to heart. Both Israel and the European Union […]
Flying the PA Flag in the Knesset: A Banner of Disrespect
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the 20th century pioneer of Religious Zionism, once shared his very unique view of the meaning of flags and what they represent. Flags, whether physically or not, according to Rabbi Kook, bear an insignia indicating the mission of those who carry it. He likens it to a uniform, military or otherwise, […]
Controversy Bubbling for Israeli Soda Company
“But let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24) While stocks of Israeli home-soda maker company Sodastream (SODA) are up, so are calls for boycotting and divesting from the Ma’aleh Adumim-based company. Sodastream markets machine for carbonating water at home, alongside refillable carbon dioxide gas canisters and special bottles […]
Two Palestinian Women Disguised as Jews Caught
“Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth” (Isaiah 24:17) In what is being treated as an potential terror attack attempt, two Palestinian women were caught at the Hizme checkpoint in Samaria disguised as ultra-orthodox Jewish women, according to Arutz Sheva News. The two women were apprehended after […]