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Parasha Tazria (She Conceives): Drawing Close to God

March 28, 2014 In the Torah, isolation or time alone is not restricted to physical or contagious conditions; it can also be seen as a necessary time for prayer, devotion, and communion with God. In the words of a Chassidic Jewish saying, “A person who does not have an hour to him or herself every day is not a person.” God invites each one of us spend time alone with Him to bond with Him and deepen our relationship in ways we cannot do in a group setting. There are plenty of Biblical examples to follow, as well.

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Israeli Doctors Save Jordanian Boy

March 26, 2014 Last week, even as the Jordanian parliament was calling for the ousting of Israel’s envoy to Jordan (due to the self-defense killing of a Jordanian judge at the Allenby Bridge crossing), Israeli doctors at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center provided a 7-year-old Jordanian boy with his mother's donated kidney. After the boy faced critical kidney failure, his parents wrote a request to the Civil Administration Health Services for the operation to go forward at Rambam Medical Center.

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Israeli Troops Get Ready for Possible Iranian Strike as Iran Prepares for Nuclear Holocaust Against Israel

March 26, 2014 Last week, it was reported that Iran is recognized by the United States intelligence community as being in the "top 10" of the world's offensive cyber powers (The Christian Science Monitor), 85 US legislators also signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to enforce sanctions against Iran. "We must signal unequivocally to Iran that rejecting negotiations and continuing its nuclear weapon program will lead to much more dramatic sanctions, including further limitations on Iran’s exports of crude oil and petroleum products," the letter states. "We believe any agreement must dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program and prevent it from ever having a uranium or plutonium path to a nuclear bomb."

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Abbas Rejects Israel As a Jewish State

March 24, 2014 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was given a hero's welcome as he returned home from Washington. Hundreds of Palestinian Authority employees and schoolchildren gathered at his presidential office in Ramallah, thanking him for resisting United States President Barack Obama’s pressure to extend the US-brokered peace talks with Israel, which are set to end April 29, 2014. Before he left for Washington, similar rallies chanted slogans in his support, urging him not to yield to US pressure to make concessions with Israel for the sake of creating a two-state solution.

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Parasha Shemini (Eighth): The Manifestation of the Presence of God

March 21, 2014 This week’s Parasha provides the laws of kashrut (Biblical dietary laws). In Leviticus 11, God outlines which animals are edible and which are not. Why should the God of the Universe care about what we eat? The main purpose of the dietary laws is not for hygienic or health reasons; they set the Israelites apart as a holy people. What we eat not only affects our physical body and mind, but also our soul.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron Speaks at the Knesset

March 19, 2014 Last week, during British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first visit to Israel as prime minister, he assured Israelis of his solidarity with the Jewish nation. “With me, you have a British Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is unbreakable and whose commitment to Israel’s security will always be rock solid.‬ “I will always stand up for the right of Israel to defend its citizens, a right enshrined in international law, in natural justice and fundamental morality, and in decades of common endeavor between Israel and her allies,” he told the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

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Hamas Unveils Monument to Missiles

March 19, 2014 Last week, as Israel was presenting to the world the haul of weapons caught in passage from Iran to Gaza, Hamas unveiled a statue with a rocket on the top, designed to honor its ability to strike Israel. At the unveiling, a Hamas leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades military wing said, “Hamas managed to take the battle to the heart of the Zionist entity (Israel) after developing its rocket system, succeeding where many Arab armies had failed.”

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Norwegian Cruise Line Drops Tunisian Port Calls Over Anti-Israel Bias

March 19, 2014 After Tunisia prevented over a dozen Israeli passengers from disembarking from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, a line based in Miami, announced that it will no longer be making stops in Tunisia. The Israeli passengers were singled out from hundreds of passengers aboard the Norwegian Jade and barred entry to the port of Tunis after the Tunisian government apparently made a last minute decision.

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Love Bombing and Rising European Anti-Semitism

March 19, 2014 Members of Sweden’s Liberal Party youth wing organized a “love bombing,” placing cut-out hearts on the doors of a school in Sweden a day after it was covered with Nazi slogans that included "Jewish swine" and "Disgusting Jews." In response, other youth wrote messages to the school’s Jewish students voicing their support. Included were such positive messages such as “Love overcomes hate” and “Love comes in all shapes and colours.”

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Iranian General Says Iran is Ready to Destroy Israel

March 19, 2014 Last week, Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami announced that the Iranian military is ready to attack and to destroy Israel when ordered to do so. “Today, we can destroy every spot which is under the Zionist regime’s control with any volume of fire power (that we want) right from here,” Salami told a conference in Tehran last week.

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