Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Pope's Visit to the Western Wall

God will surely bless you in the Land that the Lord, your God, will give you as an inheritance to possess it.

DEUTERONOMY (15:4)

כִּי בָרֵךְ יְבָרֶכְךָ יְ-הוָה בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְ-הוָה אֱ-לֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ

דברים טו:ד


kee ba-RAYKH y'-va-REKH-kha a-do-NAI ba-a-RETZ a-SHER e-lo-HE-kha no-TAYN l'-KHA na-kha-LA l'-rish-TA

Today's Israel Inspiration

Several amazing speakers came out for our farewell tour dinner in Jerusalem this past Sunday night. Chris Mitchell of the Christian Broadcast Network shared his take, as a Jerusalem correspondent, on the peace process, declaring that the Land is not "ours or theirs" to negotiate, but rather is God's Land, and when diplomacy fails time and again, it is solely because "He is the silent peace partner." It was a stirring reminder to look behind the headlines, and to thank God for granting the Jewish people "an inheritance" in His blessed Land.

Pope's Visit to the Western Wall

Pope Francis visited the Temple Mount early yesterday morning, meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He then prayed at the Western Wall.

Cost of Peace in Israel: $250 Billion

The 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, which were meant to bring stability to Israel, have actually cost the country over $250 billion and more than 1,000 human casualties.  Meanwhile, the peace that was promised is nowhere to be seen.

Silver Bracelet with Turquoise

Enjoy this funky braided rope bracelet from Israel! Its sterling silver plaque is engraved with the Hebrew words “Y’varechecha V’yishmarecha” (May you be blessed and guarded) from the Priestly Blessings.

Israel Photo Trivia

How well do you know the Holy Land - can you identify where this picture by Yehoshua Halevi was taken? Send me an email or post your answer on Facebook!

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Posted: 26 May 2014 
Paratroopers at the Western Wall, 1967 
(Israel Government Press Office)

David Rubinger's iconic 1967 picture of Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall is one of the most famous pictures in modern Jewish history.

The photo was taken just hours after the Israel Defense Forces captured Jerusalem's Old City during the Six-Day War after the Jordanian army fired on the Jewish half of the city.

Israel Daily Picture has discovered that the Western Wall has been a magnet for Jewish soldiers over the last century.

We present these pictures for "Yom Yerushalayim" which begins Tuesday evening. 

Austrian Jewish soldiers at the Western Wall.  The Austrian and German armies were allied with
the Turkish army  during World War I, 1915 (Harvard Library/Central Zionist Archives). The 
photographer, Ya'akov Ben-Dov, moved to Palestine from Kiev in 1907. He was drafted into 
the Ottoman army during World War I and served as a photographer in Jerusalem

Jewish soldiers from the British Army after the capture of Jerusalem in December 1917 (Wikipedia)
 
Two British soldiers, presumably Jewish, at the Western Wall during a
major snow storm in 1921 (Library of Congress)

American Campuses Regain Sanity - ISRAEL TODAY

American Campuses Regain Sanity

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |  Tsvi Sadan  ISRAEL TODAY
On May 20th the Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW) voted down an anti-Israeli resolution pushed by Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER-UW), which belongs to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel on campuses around the world.
The resolution called for the "University of Washington to examine its financial assets to identify its investments in companies that provide equipment or services used to directly maintain, support, or profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land … that the ASUW requests the University of Washington to instruct its investment managers to divest from those companies."
In short, this was another resolution to boycott Israel, but this time it ended in a resounding "no" to such stunts, which have become increasingly popular on American campuses ever since the 2001 Durban NGO conference that labeled Israel as a racist state.
The BDS defeat at the University of Washington further indicates that students and faculty are beginning to understand that the BDS movement and NGOs that purportedly support human rights are masking an anti-Semitic agenda.
The Mike Report blog aptly highlighted the comments of University of Washington professor of sociology, Paul Burstein, "who suggested the resolution framers were less than honest as to their goals, and that their true intention was the end of Israel as a Jewish majority state … he described it as just an easy way to manipulate the students to appear to support the sponsor's twisted agenda."
The University of Washington is not the first to unveil the true nature of the BDS movement. Just a few weeks earlier, the Graduate and Professional Student Association at the University of New Mexico overturned a divestment resolution. A month before that, the Associated Students for the University of New Mexico voted down a similar motion.
BDS was also defeated at Cornell University, despite the fact that, as BackSpin blog has reported, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) tried to steal the vote.
A call to boycott Israel was also voted down 25-9 at the University of Michigan, despite threatening rhetoric used by pro-Palestinian activists. The Washington Free Beacon reported on March 21 that "Pro-Palestinian activists on the University of Michigan campus have had the cops called on them for threatening pro-Israel students and staging a sit-in over the student government's refusal to back an anti-Israel initiative to divest from the Jewish state."
Israelis are well familiar with the motto "if you can't beat 'em, cheat 'em." It characterizes the Palestinian fight against Israel.
After more than ten years of bewilderment, it seems as if the Jewish community and many others begin to realize that out-of-control anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish allegations are based on fiction designed to create hateful strife rather than love and peace.
In the wake of yet another attack against Jews in Brussels, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly stated that "slander and lies against the State of Israel continue to be heard on European soil even as the crimes against humanity and acts of murder being perpetrated in our region are systematically ignored. Our response to this hypocrisy is to constantly state the truth, continue a relentless fight against terrorism and build up our strength."
Does the BDS defeat on American campuses signal a meaningful awakening to its true nature? It seems like there is cause for cautious optimism.
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Israelis Look to Place Torah Scroll on the Moon

Israelis Look to Place Torah Scroll on the Moon

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |  Israel Today Staff  
An Israeli organization called “Torah on the Moon” is looking to do just what its name implies, deposit a hand-written Torah scroll on the surface of the moon.
There has been a Bible (including the New Testament) on the moon since 1971, when Apollo 15 Commander David Scott left behind a copy of the Christian holy text on the mission’s lunar rover.
“Torah on the Moon” said it wants to deposit a Torah scroll, which comprises the first five books of the Bible, in order to “celebrate the ancient book’s innumerable contributions to morality, justice, education, culture, art and sciences.”
To accomplish this goal, “Torah on the Moon” is reportedly in talks with the Barcelona Moon Team, one of the teams entered into the Google Lunar X Prize, a competition to successfully land a robot on the lunar surface.
According to the journal New Scientist, the European Space Agency has confirmed that it was commissioned to test a capsule meant to carry a Torah scroll to the moon. The capsule would protect the delicate scroll from radiation and severe temperatures for up to 10,000 years.
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The Elephant in the Room by John Paul Jackson

The Elephant in the Room 

by John Paul Jackson

Identity Network
 
The Lord wants to increase your hope. No matter what you're going through right now, whether you view your life overall as a positive or negative experience, whether things are going well or things are going poorly, if you are in good health or poor health, if you are living in surplus or in need, if you are content or sick at heart - the Lord wants to increase your hope.
 
Hope is rekindled in our hearts when a word from God is spoken at the right time, in the right way and in the right season. The Psalms put it this way:
 
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I do hope. Psalm 130:5
 
I firmly believe that once we're transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of His most marvelous light, when we ask for a fish, we don't get a stone (1 Peter 2:9; Luke 11:11-13). He is a good Father, who gives good gifts to His kids. So we can say very simply to Him, "God, I want to learn to hear from You," and He will teach us how to hear Him. He will change our lives with the sound of His voice.
 
Hope: A Mind Set on God
 
In some ways, hope is the easiest thing in the world to find. It can be like a large elephant standing in a small room - it is right there, all the time, fully visible because of who God is and His unchanging, ever-faithful, never-failing affection for His people. God is God; therefore, there is always hope.
 
But in other ways, hope can be difficult to find, because when we're anxious, upset or fearful, it isn't easy to hear God's voice. Peace is the great potting soil of revelation - of communing with God and hearing His truth. A mind set on God will recognize God, will hear God and then can respond to Him. All of us are in a process of tuning, honing and developing our ability to hear Him, and in this quest, all of us are going to succeed, because He wants us to hear His voice. He doesn't speak to us because He has to; He speaks to us because He wants to. We just celebrated Easter - we know the price He paid to be with His children.
 
God knows right where you are in this on-going process of building a deep, abiding relationship with Him. He knows that you are still learning. He sees what you're going through, and He treats you as His prize, not as His burden.
 
God Has the Time
 
All too often, we allow the enemy to convince us that God doesn't have the time or the inclination to put up with us and our shortcomings. We can start to think that hope is too elusive and hearing God is too hard, because He's disappointed with us. We don't give ourselves grace for where we are. We think He doesn't take into consideration how each of us is still learning, and so we bypass verses like Psalm 103:13-14, not realizing how they apply to us:
 
As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him.  For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
 
Does that sound like a God who doesn't understand? Does that sound like a God who is far away? Does that sound like there is no hope for you and your circumstances?
 
This month, remember that hope is not a small, frail, feather-light thing that would be easy for you to destroy. It is the elephant in the room - it is massive. It is weighty. Hearing God's voice can change your world and fill even the bleakest of situations with hope.
 
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Pope Visits Yad Vashem, Calls for Two-State Solution - CBN News

Pope Visits Yad Vashem, 
Calls for Two-State Solution

CBN News - Chris Mitchel Monday, May 26, 2014

BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel -- Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted Pope Francis at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday.

The pontiff's trip is the third papal visit to Israel since the year 2000. He came with the goal of building bridges -- within the church, between faiths -- and bridging the political divide between Israelis and Palestinians.

Francis issued a surprise invitation to both Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to pray together at the Vatican. Both accepted and plan to come to Rome in early June.

On the last day of his two-day visit, Francis prayed at the Western Wall in the Old City and visited Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial, where he met with Holocaust survivors and prayed, "Never again Lord, never again."

Historic Christian Declaration

One major reason for the Pope's visit is to sign a joint declaration with Barthlomew, the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church. The declaration marks the 50th anniversary of the end of a rift between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches, which began nearly 1,000 years ago.

Both men expressed grave concern for Christian persecution in the Middle East, an issue Netanyahu also addressed.

"Your Holiness, in the heart of the Middle East, the turbulent and violent Middle East, where Christians are often persecuted, Israel is an island of tolerance," MK Rabbi Dov Lipman told CBN News. "We also hope he basks in the holiness of Jerusalem and also recognizes the importance of a unified Jerusalem where there's access for all faiths to their places of worship."

During his visit, Pope Francis called for a two-state solution. That means a divided Jerusalem since Palestinians also want the city as their capital.

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12 Years a Slave - Movie Trailer 2013 Brad Pitt Movie - Official [HD]

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup



I just finished watching "Twelve Years a Slave." Someday all evil will be judged and those who trust in the Lord will be free. That which was horribly done in the "name of the Lord" will be righteously judged for eternity. 

Forgive us for the sins of our ancestors and for that which is still wrongly done in God's name - here in the USA and in all the nations. 

Steve Martin
Love For His People
May 26, 2014


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"12 Years a Slave" movie theatrical release on October 18, 2013.

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender) as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life. 12 Years a Slave movie trailer 2013 is presented in full HD 1080p high resolution.

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Greeting to you in the name of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach!

Our last Sabbath meeting was very good. I and my mother enjoyed the time with the children a lot. We spent some time with orphans and other children. They were very happy when we visited them and gave gifts of hope.

On this Sabbath we did explain the story of the five loaves of bread and two fishes. At this time we had also distributed the summer clothes to five girls. We want to give summer clothes to everyone who are coming to our Sabbath School regularly, but our resources are limited.

Dear family, kindly lift-up Shalom Today Worldwide Ministries needs in your daily prayers. We worship Elohim in the open air ground because we don’t have a proper place to arrange our Sabbath meetings in a room.

Today’s temperature is very high, We don’t have a cooling fan. Please pray for our need. He can provide cooling fan for the children.

At the end of the sabbath meeting we prayed for all financial supporters, prayer warriors and for the peace of Jerusalem.

Love and blessing,

Moses Julius
Shalom Today Worldwide Ministries

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