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To Everything There Is A Season
By: D. Blackburn To Everything There Is A Season “Racheli hayita hashemesh.” Racheli was the sun she said through her tears. It was Yom HaZikaron 2001, my first soldiers’ remembrance day living in Israel. As she spoke we stood in silence class by class, a sea of white shirts and black pants (the required uniform…
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ISIS – The Household Four Letter Word – Part I
by Jonathan Feldstein Unfortunately ISIS has become a four letter household word with which most westerners and Arabs are quite familiar. The past several months ISIS has been in the news for a variety of brutal acts including burning, beheading, crucifixion, and shooting to death of captives, and rape, slavery, and many other acts of…
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INSIGHTS WITH RABBI JEFF | ZECHARIAH 10, PART II
In the beginning of the 10th chapter, Adonai urges the people to again ask for what they need, as embodied in the rains. He contrasts asking Him with asking the idols and other false gods whom they had been worshipping for generations. Those gods, obviously, had no power, yet had received credit for what the…
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INSIGHTS WITH RABBI JEFF | Zechariah 10, Part III
In our last look at Zechariah 10, we saw that Adonai starts to mention that His intention is to expand His restorative process to the northern tribes, the ancient kingdom of Israel, now referred to as the House of Joseph. Because of the honored place of Joseph, his descendants were promised a leading role in…
A Watchman To Watch Over The People