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UN Envoy Calls for Division of Jerusalem

November 6, 2013 Last week, UN envoy Robert H. Serry emphasized Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, must be divided to achieve peace. “Without resolving Jerusalem, there will be no solution,” he said. “The [UN] secretary general believes that a way has to be found for Jerusalem to emerge as a capital for two states.” (JPost) Serry currently serves as the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority.

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Anti-Semitic Attack in Tolerant Australia

November 6, 2013 Australia’s Jewish community was shocked recently by an unprovoked attack on a Jewish family group of five in Bondi Beach, Australia. Although Australia has a reputation as a tolerant country, eight men shouting anti-Semitics epithets viciously attacked four men and a 62-year-old woman as they walked home from a Shabbat (Sabbath) evening meal.

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Bible Lands Museum Exhibit Traces Jewish Roots of Christianity

November 6, 2013 An extraordinary exhibit devoted to the history of the Bible called Book of Books was recently unveiled in the Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum. This refreshing presentation traces the roots of the Bible, stressing its link to Judaism and Christianity, and the Jewish roots of Christianity.

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Israel Creates Arab Scholarship Program

November 6, 2013 To help increase the numbers of Arab students in disciplines in which they are underrepresented, the Israeli government has launched a scholarship program geared to help Arab students. The program, which will award 650 scholarships annually, in the amount of NIS 10,000 ($2,840), beginning with the current academic year is expected to distribute grants totaling NIS 300 million ($85 million) over the next 6 years.

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Israel’s First Bedouin Tank Commander

November 6, 2013 The first Bedouin in Israel's Armored Tank Corps just completed his training to become the first Bedouin tank commander. “The course was difficult,” 19-year-old Corporal Mustafa Tabash said. “It involved being in the field a lot, and showering once a week,” he said. “We do everything with a smile and encourage one another.” (JPost)

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Israel Releases 26 Terrorists as Part of Peace Talks Deal

November 6, 2013 Last week, Israel let go 26 more of the 104 terrorists to be released as part of the deal for peace talks, a deal brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry. This second of the four-stage release went forward despite anguished objections by the families of the terrorists' victims.

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Israel in Prophecy: A Key End-Time Event – the Balfour Declaration

November 5, 2013 Today, some Israelis and friends of the Jewish State around the world will mark the 94th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which is part of the fulfillment of end-time Biblical prophecy, and the amazing story of the rebirth of Israel as a nation. "Thus says the Lord God: 'Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own Land.'" (Ezekiel 37:21) The Balfour declaration (1917), which is named after Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary during the World War 1, influenced the Jewish communities of the world to believe that Great Britain would support the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East.

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Parasha Toldot (Generations): Does God Choose Favorites?

November 1, 2013 In Parasha Vayetze, Jacob (Yaacov) leaves his parents’ home in Beersheba. But he does not just leave; he runs for his life from his enraged brother, Esau, who is threatening to kill him after his father, Isaac, dies. Similar to his grandfather, Abraham, who was called to leave his family and familiar surroundings in order to fulfill his destiny, Jacob leaves behind all the comforts of a warm and loving home—the security of all that is familiar to him—in order to fulfill his destiny as the father of the 12 Tribes of Israel.

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Irish Journalist Wears Kippah to Test Swedish Anti-Semitism

October 30, 2013 Irish journalist Patrick Reilly recently tested the waters of anti-Semitism in Sweden by publicly appearing to be Jewish for a few hours in the southern Swedish town of Malmö. In response to complaints about anti-Semitism made by the local Jewish community and Jewish tourists, Reilly put on a kippah (head covering), an identifiable symbol of Judaism, to see firsthand what those who are visibly Jewish experience. (HaAretz)

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Iran Nuclear Weapons Program Passed Point of No Return

October 30, 2013 On Monday, Dr. Olli Heinonen, a former deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that Iran has passed the point of no return in its nuclear weapons program. While Israel has repeatedly urged the dismantling of Iran's nuclear capabilities, warning the world about Iran's rogue nuclear program, Iran has continued in the last year to install more sophisticated centrifuges in its nuclear enrichment facilities.

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