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ISRAEL HAPPENINGS
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RELIGION, 2006-2007
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"... he [the Antichrist] shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and laws ..." [Dan 7:25]
Rocket-battered Israeli believers place their trust in God
In shadow of Gaza threat, Jewish believers in Sderot say their faith is strong, that they are praying for the Arabs of Gaza
Posted 7/14/08Israelis to urge Bush to return to the Bible
Grassroots organization purchases billboard space in Jerusalem to put up poster calling on Bush to read Bible and realize God gave Israel to the Jews
Posted 1/4/08Revocation of citizenship - Urgent call for amendment
A new campaign by Israel's Ministry of Interior to revoke the citizenship of believers highlights an urgent need for reform.
Posted 1/4/08Religious Jews suspected in crematorium fire
The location of Israel's first and only crematorium had been kept secret for over two years for fear of attack by the religious
Posted 8/27/07Hundreds of rabbis slam Olmert as 'anti-Jewish'
Posted 8/13/07Chabad takeover
We want Meshiach [Messiah] now!
Posted 1/11/06Chief Rabbi Asks Dalai Lama to Help Set up Religious UN in J'lem
Posted 2/22/06Chief Rabbi Issues Unprecedented Excommunication Order
The unprecedented move came after a group of senior officials of the small hareidi sect were photographed embracing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The officials were attenting a two-day conference in Teheran aiming to produce evidence that the Holocaust never took place.
Posted 12/15/06Christian Population Falls in Holy Land
Call it part of a modern exodus, the steady flight of the tiny Palestinian Christian minority that could lead, some predict, to the faith being virtually extinct in its birthplace within several generations
Posted 11/13/06Cloistered Jewish World Faces Change
Haredim tend not to take firm stances on the big issue confronting Israeli society _ war and peace with the Arabs. But their birthrate of seven children to a family is a force in Israel's demographic race against the Palestinians.
Posted 4/9/07The Crypto-Jews of Brazil <- FASCINATING!
500 years after Jewish conversos reached Brazil, their descendants begin reclaiming their birthright
Posted 10/31/06Dalai Lama makes fourth visit to the Holy Land
Posted 2/22/06Evangelical schools ordered to teach Darwin
OTTAWA - The Quebec Ministry of Education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin's theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after a school board in the Outaouais region complained the provincial curriculum was not being followed.
Posted 10/27/06"Gay" 'Marriage' in Israel: Worse than Holocaust - Will Cause Terrorism Warns Rabbi Levin
Posted 11/27/06God's Response to Replacement Theology
Posted 1/28/06Hilula in Meron: Waiting for a miracle
Motivated by the power of faith, 250,000 people arrive at Mount Meron for Lag Baomer celebrations
Posted 5/17/06Holy Land churches attack Christian Zionism
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Vatican's envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches have launched a rare joint attack on the Christian Zionist movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war."
Posted 09/01/06International Chabad Convention in New York
Posted 11/21/06Israel switches to kosher electricity for its orthodox Jews
Fifty years after a rabbinical ruling made it sacrilegious for orthodox Jews to use mains power on the Sabbath, Israel's national grid has come up with a bright idea for the observant: kosher electricity.
Posted 12/18/06Israeli Rabbi's unite to Stop the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade!
Posted 10/31/06Israelis support bill to take Sundays off
Only ultra-Orthodox reject idea of following Christian world's lead
Posted 5/30/07Jewish and Christian Arab students in joint study program
High schoolers of both faiths will study "Old" and New Testaments, visit synagogues and churches
Posted 6/25/07Kohanim, Tribe of Levi to have 'family reunion'
Groundbreaking 'Gathering of the Tribe' will include leading researchers and rabbis. Conference is set to take place in Jerusalem in summer 2007
Posted 7/26/06Master of War <- AMEN!!!
Israel's successes, however, come from the Living G-d. The Jewish soldier must make the necessary preparations and not rely on miracles; yet, he must know that salvation comes from G-d. Thus, we find in the Torah that "The L-rd is a Man of War." (Exodus, 15:3)
Posted 8/2/06The Messiah
The Messianic Age is the focus of the entire Creation. The arrival of the Messiah is a fundamental belief in Judaism. This yearning gives Jews all over the world hope concerning the ultimate future of mankind.
Posted 7/12/06Messianic Judaism, the Torah and the Oral Law
Should Jewish believers in Jesus obey the Law of Moses and Jewish oral law? We asked 10 Messianic Jews and discovered a wide range of views.
Posted 6/6/07Muslim States' Jews Pray For IDF
Jews living precariously in the world's most violently anti-Israel states in the Middle East have apparently signed their names and countries of origin on an Internet site that is coordinating a world-wide prayer rally slated for Tuesday for IDF soldiers.
Posted 8/2/06The New Jew
There seems to be a swell in the interest of Israelis in Judaism. People talk about Bible and religion like never before, and there are abundant indications for it. For the unfamiliar reader, it needs to be clarified that for two centuries, Jews don't like their religion for the same reasons Christians grew to dislike their religion. However, within the last 10 or 15 years, Israelis have begun to ask, "If our secular values are so marvelous, how is it that crime and corruption have become so rampant?"
Posted 4/2/07Oh God
Israel is a secular state that causes people to think of Israelis as atheists. However, as a recent poll has shown, this is not the case. The poll was conducted in October by Ynet – the most popular Israeli internet newspaper. According to Ynet,* over 40,000 people answered several questions regarding God, religion and Israel.
Posted 4/4/07Orthodox rabbis curse Israel's gay pride parade
Posted 6/14/07Over 300,000 at Funeral of World´s Senior Kabbalist Rabbi
To read about Kabbalah, click HERE.
Posted 2/9/06Pat Robertson outburst provokes Israeli soul searching
Posted 1/11/06Photo Essay: Rabbis and Kabbalists Lead Thousands In Prayer
Thousands of Jews turned out at prayer vigils on Tuesday to entreat the G-d of Israel to protect and defend the Jewish State. Arutz Sheva presents pictures from the gathering at the Western Wall.
Posted 7/27/06Rabbi: Olmert may suffer Sharon's fate
Rabbi Dov Wolpe of Kiryat Gat says 'we've seen what Almighty can do to those who carry out evacuation, and this time there is chance it will happen before evacuation'
Posted 6/26/06Rabbi Concerned 'WorldPride' Event Might Bring God's Judgment
"The homosexualization of the Middle East, beginning with God's backyard, is one of the end-day struggles that could literally lead to a spiritual and physical Armageddon in both Israel and spread back to America," says Levin.
Posted 8/9/06Rabbi Signaling Return Of Messiah?
However, as a result of the strengthening Palestinian presence on the Mount, religious-Zionist rabbis have been pressured in recent years to permit visits to some parts of it. The committee of West Bank rabbis allowed ascent to the Mount a few years ago.
Posted 5/25/07Rabbi Slams Back At Jews For Jesus
Radio Show Host Rabbi Tovia Singer Fires Back at Missionaries Targeting Jews for Conversion with Educational Audio Series Now Made Available Free Online
Posted 2/2/07Rabbinic Court slams High Court
Two recent Supreme Court decisions that have curtailed rabbinic court jurisdiction "have given the religious community the feeling that Israel's highest court is antagonistic towards Jewish law," said legal adviser to the rabbinic courts Rabbi Shimon Ya'acobi during a conference on the relations between religious courts and civil law at the University of Haifa.
Posted 6/6/06Rabbis Call for Temple Mount Visits
Close to 30 leading religious-Zionist rabbis visited the Temple Mount "in purity" on Sunday, after taking the necessary Halakhic precautions. The precautions involve immersing in a mikveh (ritual bath), taking off one's shoes, and clarifying the precise areas forbidden for entry - or else going only with a guide who knows the area.
Posted 5/14/07Rabbis issue worldwide prayer calls <-Let's respond, brothers & sisters!!!
"We call upon all Christians and non-Jews to increase in acts of goodness and kindness to your neighbor and fellow man. For Jewish males above the age of 13 to don Tefillin every weekday.
Posted 8/1/06Rabbis slam Olmert for caving to Muslims on Temple Mount
Posted 2/14/07Rabbis to Bush: Don't back West Bank withdrawal
Say evacuation plan against Torah, U.S. interests
Posted 6/29/06Rabbis Urge Israelis To Revolt Against Gov't
A group of prominent rabbinic leaders in Israel and abroad yesterday issued a call for Israeli citizens to launch a democratic uprising to bring down the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Posted 12/7/06"The solar eclipse symbolizes the beginning of the rise of the Messiah King."
Posted 4/11/06A Synagogue With a View
Architects in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood are building a temple that will become the only Jewish house of worship with a view facing the Temple Mount.
Posted 4/9/07Tens of Thousands Ascend to Hevron to Relive Biblical History
Each year tens of thousands arrive at the site where the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah are buried, for the annual reading to retell and relive Biblical history.
Posted 11/20/06Violence in Israel caused by 'gay' event?
Rabbis link troubles to approval of World Pride parade in Jerusalem
Posted 7/19/06We Need a Spiritual Renaissance
When renowned novelist David Grossman spoke at the annual commemoration of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, much of the reaction to his harsh criticism of the government focused on the fact that he is a far left-winger. Grossman’s son Uri died in the Lebanon War last summer, further fueling his words. But the reaction to his strong words demonstrated how true they were: The political debate in Israel is shallow and simplistic.
Posted 4/2/07What Is Kabbalah?
VERY important for Christians/Messianic Jews to know!
Posted 2/9/06Why Did God Choose Israel?
Among ardent supporters of Israel, one finds Christians who put Jews and Israelis on a pedestal because they are the “chosen people” (Deuteronomy 7:6). Such Christians are called philo-Semites—the opposite of anti-Semites.
Posted 4/4/07Will The Real Moshiach Please Stand Up
Recently there has been a wave of excitement rushing throughout Israel, and across the Internet to the far parts of the western world regarding a revelation from Israel's oldest and most revered Kabalistic Rabbi Yitzakh Kaduri ( Rabbi Kaduri Passed Away on January 28th, 2006). The revelation is basically this. Before he died he said that he had recently met the Messiah. He told his disciples that he would leave a written note with the mystery code of the identity of the Messiah written out. And he had them promise that this note was not to be opened until one year after his death.
Posted 4/6/07Worshipping in the Byways
TEL AVIV - It was a most unlikely scenario: More than 300 young Israeli and international believers fervently worshiped God to Hebrew praise songs while crowded into a rundown, dive of a bar in industrial Tel Aviv.
Posted 4/16/07Young Jews walk out on religious life
Posted 3/5/07
