I grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home in Montreal, Canada where I attended Yiddish and Hebrew day school, participated in Montreal’s Yiddish theater group and also performed in a Yiddish mandolin orchestra. My memories of the High Holidays (Rosh Hashoneh and Yom Kipper is how we pronounced them) included the traditional foods – apples dipped […]
Category Archives: Rabbinic
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling…” (Psalm 46:1-3). When natural destructions surge […]
The Feast of Shavuot/Weeks is upon us (Deuteronomy 16:10). Fifty days have now passed between Pesach/Passover and Shavuot (Leviticus 23:16 – the counting of the Omer, a peck measurement and first-fruits prophetic promise of a coming full harvest). The crest of those calculations has been reached, and now the wave of fulfillment crashes down onto […]
High school Biology teachers often guide their students through the dissection of frogs or fish. The stench of formaldehyde wafts around trembling fingers as scalpels slice through rubbery material. Students squint at the internal organs of the amphibian or the vertebrate and then roughly sketch the physical details. There is no time for lasting emotional […]
Anti-Messianics, Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Borders, Dividing up the land, Gospel, Hamas, Heart attitude to Israel, Intercession, Iraq, Islamism, Israel, Jihad, Last Days, Messianic Jewish, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian, Prophetic, Rabbinic, Replacement theology, Restoration, Saudi Arabia, Settlements, Terrorism, UN, USA, War
Replacement Blowback
Newton’s third law of motion states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This principle also manifests itself in politics, in war and in religion. The intelligence community uses the term ‘blowback’ to describe an analogous dynamic – the unintended consequences, unwanted side-effects or repercussions of a black operation that backfires. Replacement […]
Anti-Semitism, BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), Dividing up the land, Evangelicals, Fascism, Heart attitude to Israel, Holocaust, Intercession, Islamism, Israel, Jihad, Last Days, Messianic Jewish, Prophetic, Rabbinic, Replacement theology, Restoration, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, UN, USA, War
Shattering the tidal wave of anti-Semitism
World anti-Semitism is on the increase in numerous areas – Islamist jihadi terrorist attacks (Sunni and Shi’ite) against Jews and Israelis Riotous demonstrations in Western cities which attempt to catalyze public economic and political warfare against the Jewish state Coordinated international political moves to isolate, weaken and divide both the land of Israel and the […]