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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 148 Psalm 148 1 Praise the Lord.[a] Praise the Lord from the heavens;     praise him in the heights above. 2 Praise him, all his angels;     praise him, all his heavenly hosts. 3 Praise him, sun and moon;     praise him, all you shining stars. 4 Praise him, you highest heavens     and you waters above the skies. 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord,     for at his command they were created, 6 and he established them for ever and ever—     he issued a decree that will never pass away. 7 Praise the Lord from the...

Since 2104, and despite their intense terror campaign, more Palestinians have been killed by Palestinians than Israelis. When they are not attempting to kill Israelis they are killing themselves A frustrated Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, criticized the United Nations for ignoring the issue of Palestinians killing Palestinians. In a phone conversation with Nikolay Mladenov, the UN Middle East envoy, he complained that while the UN regularly condemns “justified Israeli actions against terrorism” they have nothing to say about decades of intra-sectarian rivalries in which Palestinian kill and injure each other.

Israel on Monday slammed statements by French far-right presidential contender Marine Le Pen suggesting that France was not responsible for the roundup of Jews at a stadium in Paris during World War II. “I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv,” she told RTL radio on Sunday, referring to the Paris cycling stadium where 13,000 Jews were rounded up in July 1942 before being sent to Nazi death camps. "I think that generally speaking if there are people responsible, it's those who were in power at the time. It's not France," National Front party leader Le Pen told...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 147 Psalm 147 1 Praise the Lord.[a] How good it is to sing praises to our God,     how pleasant and fitting to praise him! 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;     he gathers the exiles of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted     and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars     and calls them each by name. 5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;     his understanding has no limit. 6 The Lord sustains the humble     but casts the wicked to the ground. 7 Sing to the Lord with grateful praise;...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 146 Psalm 146 1 Praise the Lord.[a] Praise the Lord, my soul. 2 I will praise the Lord all my life;     I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 3 Do not put your trust in princes,     in human beings, who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;     on that very day their plans come to nothing. 5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,     whose hope is in the Lord their God. 6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth,...

Before we send the IDF’s 36th Armor Division to occupy Damascus, we should stop and examine the Israeli interest regarding the situation in Syria in light of recent events. Since the devastating images from the battles in the town of Idlib were published Monday, Israel is once again facing a moral dilemma regarding the required action in such a situation. With all the grief over the loss of lives, especially of innocent children, Israel should weigh its options carefully and responsibly and ask itself whether its strategic and tactical situation changed on Tuesday, and whether it requires a ground invasion...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 145 Psalm 145[a] A psalm of praise. Of David. 1 I will exalt you, my God the King;     I will praise your name for ever and ever. 2 Every day I will praise you     and extol your name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;     his greatness no one can fathom. 4 One generation commends your works to another;     they tell of your mighty acts. 5 They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty—     and I will meditate on your wonderful works.[b] 6 They tell of...

On college campuses throughout America, social justice has been the prevailing sentiment and social justice warriors have been organizing and shutting down perceived injustices threatening their campuses at a record pace. From New York to California, injustices are fought tooth and nail at top universities, Ivy League schools and junior colleges alike. College students have no tolerance for injustice. Of course, this is one of the biggest deceptions today on college campuses throughout this nation.

The Tufts University student senate passed a resolution calling on the university to divest from four companies that do business with Israel. The resolution, titled “A Resolution Calling for Tufts University to End Investments in The Israeli Occupation,” passed the Tufts Community Union Senate on Sunday night by a vote of 17 in favor and six opposed, with eight abstentions. More than 100 students attended the senate debate prior to the vote, according to the Tufts Daily student newspaper.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 144 Psalm 144 Of David. 1 Praise be to the Lord my Rock,     who trains my hands for war,     my fingers for battle. 2 He is my loving God and my fortress,     my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge,     who subdues peoples[a] under me. 3 Lord, what are human beings that you care for them,     mere mortals that you think of them? 4 They are like a breath;     their days are like a fleeting shadow. 5 Part your heavens, Lord, and come down;     touch the mountains, so that...

Jewish student leaders at Tufts University “are working intensely” to combat a surprise boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) resolution initiated by an anti-Israel group for a vote days before Passover, the campus chaplain told The Algemeiner on Friday. “Yesterday, without any forewarning, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) put forward this resolution, to be voted on by the [Tufts Community Union (TCU)] student senate this Sunday night,” said the campus Hillel’s executive director, Rabbi Jeffrey Summit, who also serves as a research professor in the department of music and the Judaic studies program. “The Hillel Jewish community is deeply disturbed...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 143 Psalm 143 A psalm of David. 1 Lord, hear my prayer,     listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness     come to my relief. 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,     for no one living is righteous before you. 3 The enemy pursues me,     he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness     like those long dead. 4 So my spirit grows faint within me;     my heart within me is dismayed. 5 I remember the days of long ago;     I meditate on all your works...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 142 Psalm 142[a] A maskil[b] of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer. 1 I cry aloud to the Lord;     I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. 2 I pour out before him my complaint;     before him I tell my trouble. 3 When my spirit grows faint within me,     it is you who watch over my way. In the path where I walk     people have hidden a snare for me. 4 Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;     no one is concerned for...

Official Palestinian Authority TV instructed male viewers who "use beatings and violence to solve their marital problems," to do so in accordance with the Quran. Palestinian Authority TV, on Saturday, aired an episode of the series Talk of the Land in which a female reporter instructed the audience to obey Quranic rules for beating wives, Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday. The timing of the release, April 1st, would lead many to assume the episode was merely a bad April Fool's Day joke, however, this does not appear to be the case. The Quranic verse the reporter referenced, Sura 4:34, is...

Mock parking tickets on the windshields of cars in a University of Michigan at Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) lot last month — which accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and other crimes – were placed there by two people in “Muslim garb,” a witness told The Algemeiner on Wednesday. UM-Dearborn student Amanda Gosline said that on March 22 she saw the individuals distributing the fake tickets, reminiscent of the mock “eviction notices” posted on dorm room doors by anti-Israel students at New York University, Connecticut College and others. The “tickets” also advertised two events on “illegal settlements and Israeli apartheid,” hosted by the...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 141 Psalm 141 A psalm of David. 1 I call to you, Lord, come quickly to me;     hear me when I call to you. 2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;     may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. 3 Set a guard over my mouth, Lord;     keep watch over the door of my lips. 4 Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil     so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers;     do not let me...

8:34 Diplomatic correspondent John Robbins with the latest First reports suggest that the Syrian airbase at Shayat has been very heavily damaged by the US strike-hardly surprising since the destructive power of over 50 cruise missiles fired from two U.S Navy destroyers.......

The IDF was aware of the US strike on Syria before it happened and supported the attack, the IDF spokesperson said Friday morning.

The 28 Ambassadors--carrying their demarche between their tails - should be sent packing to Europe for a period of reflection and introspection Ambassadors to Israel representing 28 European Union States (EU) behaved most undiplomatically in ambushing the recently appointed Director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and former Ambassador to Australia - Yuval Rotem - at a meet and greet function Rotem had organised at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv last week.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem The Book of Psalms Psalm 140 Psalm 140[a] For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 Rescue me, Lord, from evildoers;     protect me from the violent, 2 who devise evil plans in their hearts     and stir up war every day. 3 They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s;     the poison of vipers is on their lips.[b] 4 Keep me safe, Lord, from the hands of the wicked;     protect me from the violent,     who devise ways to trip my feet. 5 The arrogant have hidden a snare for me;     they have spread out the cords...