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Ninth Annual Israel Apartheid Week Promotes Anti-Israel Propaganda‏

March 4, 2013 During South Africa's apartheid era, even beaches were segregated. Signs like the one above kept non-whites out of white-only areas, such as this Durban beach. This was entirely legal under apartheid-era laws. This kind of segregation is illegal in Israel. Last week, an international crusade against Israel began in Europe called the Ninth Annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of IAW is to manufacture an international perception of Israel as an “apartheid” state much as South Africa was prior to 1994.

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Parasha Ki Tisa (When You Take): Moses and the Golden Calf

February 28, 2013 God designates a man named Bezalel (Betzalel), who has a special calling or anointing, to be in charge of the construction of the Mishkan. God tells Moses that He has filled Bezalel with His Holy Spirit, wisdom, understanding and ingenuity for all manner of artistic workmanship so that the furnishings of the Tabernacle, the priests’ vestments, the anointing oil, and the incense could be created.

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Parasha Terumah (Offering)‏‏‏: The Dwelling Place of God

February 28, 2013 God wants to ensure that His people will remain in communion with Him, so He commands Moshe (Moses) to build the Sanctuary as a visible reminder that God dwells among them. He also tells Moses to ask the children of Israel to give an offering (terumah) towards the construction of the Sanctuary. Only those stirred in their hearts with a desire to participate in this holy work are to donate their material goods. No one is to give grudgingly or out of a sense of duty but out of love and gratitude towards God.

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Parasha Tetzaveh (You Command): The Oil of Anointing

February 22, 2013 This week’s Parasha begins with the commandment to the children of Israel to bring the pure olive oil for the menorah in the Mishkan (Sanctuary), so the lamps in the Tent of Meeting could continually burn. Oil was also used in the priests’ ordination ceremony. Not only were the priests’ heads anointed with it, but they also presented to God a wave offering of unleavened bread prepared with oil.

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Israel Helps Ugandan Pastor Blinded for His Faith in Yeshua

February 12, 2013 Evelyn Mulinde walked through the open-air market of a rainy Jerusalem this past week, her face moving between a soft, courteous smile and a tense, faraway look as she listened to a companion describe the medical progress of her husband, Ugandan Pastor Umar Mulinde. He is here in Israel recovering from a vicious attack that happened in December 2011.

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Parasha Mishpatim (Laws): Humility Without Humiliation

February 8, 2013 No one really likes to feel like a slave forced into drudgery or servitude, like some kind of Cinderella, scrubbing the dirty floors of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Perhaps we all feel like this at times, and yet, Yeshua made the remarkable claim that whoever desires to be great should be a servant, and whoever desires to be first, should be a slave.

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Parasha Yitro (Jethro): On Eagles’ Wings

February 1, 2013 The name of this week’s Torah study, Yitro (Jethro), comes from the Hebrew root yeter, meaning abundant or exceedingly abundant. While we are often limited by the confines of our own imagination, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly (yeter) more than we could ever ask or think or imagine!

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Tu B’Shvat and the Spiritual Restoration of the Holy Land

January 25, 2013 Monday was a special holiday called Tu B’Shvat, also known as the New Year for the Trees. Here in the Holy Land, many will be taking part in planting trees since this holiday is Israeli Arbor Day. On Israeli kibbutzim, it is an agricultural holiday. But the holiday has spiritual significance, as well. In synagogues round the world, there will activities and prayers of thanksgiving to the Lord who has given us the Land of Israel and all its goodness. This holiday has special significance for tithing. According to the rabbis, this is the time when the people of Israel offered to God the tithe of the first fruits of their crops.

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Parasha Beshalach (When Let Go): From Victim to Victorious

January 24, 2013 The Exodus is the cornerstone of the nation of Israel: the commandments, the promises, the essence of Judaism, all began with this departure from Egypt. The Exodus also broke the power of Egypt and devastated it, and Egypt never regained its status as the great nation it had been.

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Parasha Bo (Come!): The Angel of Death Passed Over

January 18, 2013 Parasha Bo (Come) begins with the eighth plague upon Egypt—Locusts. We may wonder why God decided to demonstrate His power to both Israel and Egypt. After all, He was fully capable of delivering Israel without involving Pharaoh in the process. Scripture is clear on this: God hardened Pharaoh’s heart in order to demonstrate His power over the false gods of Egypt, represented by each of the ten plagues.

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