Jerusalem Watchman

And the LORD said to Abraham:

“Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. …  Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.” (Genesis [...]

Dear President Obama
You will just have heard Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver his speech, which as you know you are partially responsible for having pressed him into making.
Hopefully you will have heard his heartfelt appeal to the Arab world to grasp the hand that Israel has long held out for peace.
You will have heard [...]

As Israel’s prime minister gets ready for Shabbat, after which he is set to deliver his widely-awaited foreign policy speech, you can write to encourage him to stand strong against the shameless bullying tactics of the Obama administration and the European Union. Along with the whole world, Washington and Brussels are panting to hear Benjamin [...]

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be going before his nation, and before the world, to deliver his much anticipated foreign policy speech.
The two issues he is certain to focus on are Iran’s nuclear threat and Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs
As he prepares to lay out his vision, this man is under [...]

Back in my old homeland we had a saying when we prayed for ‘traveling mercies.’
“Remember,” we admonished one another, “the angels that protect you when you drive will take their securing hands off your car when you exceed the speed limit or otherwise break the law.”
I was reminded of this as I read two headlines [...]

I almost dare not write this. But I feel I dare not not. What I see is vivid as daylight. I have to let it out.
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has an ability shared by surely very few if any other men: to invoke with words the deep pain that has etched itself forever on his [...]

That in mid-May, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to the United States to make a priority of stopping Iran from pursuing the nuclear bomb that threatens Israel’s existence.
That the Obama administration refused.
And that just over one week later, America was standing on the edge of a potential nuclear conflict with North Korea, which [...]

“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the LORD. “Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts [...]

“You have no idea of the kind of pressure that is brought to bear on an Israeli prime minister when he enters the White House.” (The late David Bar-Ilan, Chief of Information and Policy Planning for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a personal conversation with this writer, November 1998.)
Netanyahu flew to Washington DC at the [...]

As 2009 get seriously underway, the world is ganging up on Israel more than ever before.
Like a flood foaming furiously behind a massive logjam, the river of “new” antisemitism that expresses itself in anti-Israel enmity has been gathering strength for years.
Unleashed, it has the potential to pulverize the “pestilence” that is the Jewish state.
Until just [...]