Shabbat Shalom Torah V’et’chanan (“And I pleaded”) Duet.3:23-7:11 Haftarh Isa.40:1-26
Author: Jodie Anderson
Senate panel okays bill cutting PA funding over terrorist salaries
(photo credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Taylor Force Act approved by Foreign Relations Committee 17-4, will move to full vote in Senate BY ERIC CORTELLESSA WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill Thursday to cut US funding to…
Appeals court decides fate of oldest synagogue in US
(AP/Eric J. Shelton) Federal judges rule that Rhode Island building, and $7.4 million decorative silver bells it houses, under control of NY-based Jewish congregation BY AP BOSTON — A federal appeals court in Boston has decided the fate of the…
White House fires top security adviser said to have leaked intel
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Jewish NSC aide Ezra Cohen-Watnick was allegedly involved in helping House intel committee head view classified info pertaining to Trump’s allegations on Obama wiretapping BY AGENCIES Ezra Cohen-Watnick became a focal point for top national security advisers…
Dawn of the bionic age: Body hackers let chips get under their skin
Tim Cannon, cofounder of a microchip implanting company, Grindhouse Wetware, shows off the spot on the fleshy part of his left hand where he has a subdermal chip. Photo taken July 27, 2017. Tim Johnson McClatchy If you’re prone to…
Tisha B’Av – The Ninth of Av
Overview and laws of the Jewish national day of mourning. by Rabbi Shraga Simmons What Happened on the Ninth of Av? On Tisha B’Av, five national calamities occurred: During the time of Moses, Jews in the desert accepted the slanderous…
Finds in Jerusalem shore up biblical account of Babylonian conquest
The structure in which shattered jugs were found during the summer 2017 Israel Antiquities Authority dig, attesting to the destruction. (Eliyahu Yanai, Courtesy of the City of David Archive) On the eve of the Hebrew commemoration of the destruction of…
Pew: What Christians Worry About Most
Image: Nick Savchenko / Flickr How five religious groups rank seven bad scenarios. SARAH EEKHOFF ZYLSTRA President Donald Trump might do better to focus on fixing health care instead of tackling terrorism. The white evangelicals who largely voted for him…
State Dept: ISIS slaughter of minorities not genocide
A mass execution by Islamic State jihadis (Photo: video screenshot) Lawyers from the State Department are removing the word “genocide” in speeches and documents describing the persecution of Chrisitians, Yazidis and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, charged…
