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Iran Deal Backers 'Will Have Blood on Their Hands' By Jennifer Wishon CBN News White House Correspondent Thursday, September 10, 2015 WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress are debating what many consider the most important vote of their careers: President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. With the vote just one week away, both sides are applying pressure. Meanwhile, the issue has also spread into the 2016 presidential campaign. In a rare move, GOP hopefuls Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump joined forces on Capitol Hill to fight the deal. "This Iranian nuclear deal is catastrophic," Cruz said. The deal gives...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday released a video greeting to the Jewish people in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Obama suggested that the New Year was a time to repair his country's relationship with Israel, at the end of a week in which he and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been at odds over Iran's nuclear program. “As we look forward to the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays Sunday night, I want to extend my warmest wishes to all those celebrating the New Year,” Obama said. “This is a joyful time for millions of people...

SAN FRANCISCO, - A San Francisco-based computer scientist says he has solved the mystery of dating Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Year 5771 begins at sundown Wednesday. Steve Morse's interest in the Jewish calendar began when he was a teenager, more than 50 years ago, The Denver Post reported. He tried to figure out his grandmother's birth date in the Gregorian calendar -- the one commonly used in most of the world now -- from the one in the Jewish calendar used on her records from Europe. The Jewish calendar is a difficult one, based on the movements of...

When our middle son was in preschool, his teacher asked him to explain to the (overwhelmingly non-Jewish) class what the Jewish New Year was all about. Four-year-old David told them that on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews go to a big building and "forgive God." Well, something like that. This week, Jews all over the world are gathering to observe the "Ten Days of Awe," the period that begins with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and culminates with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Like other Jewish holidays (Passover, Sukkot), Rosh Hashanah is celebrated for two days in...

Rosh Hashana, The Jewish New Year In Israel Related story:Olmert: Israel Will Enjoy Peace for Jewish Rosh Hashana New Year By Judy Lash Balint Israel News Agency Jerusalem ---- September 13, 2007 ...... One can easily witness signs of Rosh Hashana in Jerusalem, Israel. In the run up to the beginning of this Jewish New Year, piles of branches lay strewn all over the streets of Jerusalem - city workers are zealously pruning trees and bushes in advance of Rosh Hashana when the laws of Shmittah take effect. Without getting into an arcane description of the Shmittah laws that is...

Jewish New Year Begins At SundownPolice removed swastika banners hung from two freeway overpasses Friday, the day that the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana begins, authorities said. One Nazi emblem was found hanging over state Route 78 at Escondido Avenue in Vista. A California Highway Patrol officer took it down just before 6 a.m., authorities said. A second swastika banner was reported hanging from the Sea World Drive overpass on southbound Interstate 5 in San Diego, according to the CHP. When officers arrive, the banner had already been removed, authorities said. A CHP representative said that the banner found in...

She told her audience that Western civilization owes much to the Jewish faith for the tradition of beginning the new year in this way. "How fortunate we are to have an opportunity to take time out as you are doing here on Yom Kippur to think of the large issues that really matter in life," she said. "Each year, going back to Leviticus, the Jewish people have recognized both the psychological and theological power of atonement and forgiveness."

Shanah Tova. B'sefer Hachayim Tecatevu/May you be inscribed in the book of life. May G-d watch over the US and Israel.

President Bush marked the Jewish New Year by telling a roomful of rabbis about his faith and how it helped make him a better man. Some 15 rabbis representing the three main denominations spent an hour at the White House on Monday discussing a range of topics, including Iraq, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, poverty and faith-based initiatives. Rabbi Steven Pruzanski of Teaneck, N.J., said Bush twice became emotional: while discussing his recent trip to the site of the Auschwitz death camp and when he talked about how people pray for him. Bush spoke openly about his drinking problem of years past,...