Your copy of The Jewish Press is now available for you to read online.

Email look weird? View it on the web here .

January 26, 2018 / 10 Shevat 5778 Shabbat Shalom!

The Jewish Press Print Edition Your copy of The Jewish Press is now available for you to read online. Cartoons Contingency Planning – Parshat B’Shalach Read more Cartoons articles The Peace Plan Report: Jordanian King told Lebanese PM Arabs Must Surrender to Trump’s Minimalist Peace Plan David Israel The king warned that Trump will not give an early warning, but will simply impose a "huge deal" and the Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority will simply be told to put up or shut up, this is the plan and you have to implement it. Ramallah: If Jerusalem Is Off the Table, Peace Is Off the Table  JNi.Media Saeb Erekat: “Jerusalem is not off the negotiations table; rather the US is outside the international consensus." Netanyahu Says Israel is ‘Keeping the Holy Sites, Status Quo in Jerusalem’ (video) Hana Levi Julian “We’re keeping the holy sites and the status quo, and I want to stress that under any arrangement we have, we will always keep the status quo at the Temple Mount and all of the holy sites." UN, Iran and Syria Geneva UN Group Recommends 240Things Israel Must Repair JNi.Media Even the “State of Palestine” had ten recommendations for Israel, to which Israel responded by suggesting to entity by that name does not “satisfy the criteria for statehood under international law.” Israeli Ambassador Warns UN Security Council Iran Commands 82,000 Fighters in Syria Hana Levi Julian “We are releasing this classified information because it is vital for the world to understand that if we turn a blind eye in Syria, the Iranian threat will only grow.” Turkey Threatens Supporters of Syrian Kurds (Read: US Forces) Will Become ‘A Target’ Hana Levi Julian “The coalition forces that are in that area have an inherent right to defend themselves and will do so if necessary.” News Remains of Earliest Modern Human Outside of Africa Unearthed in Israel JNi.Media Discovery of jawbone pushes back history of Homo sapiens migration by at least 50,000 years. Read more Headlines & Recommended articles The Yishai Fleisher Show Pence at Knesset, Song at Sea Moses sang at the sea after Egypt was destroyed but his vision included the building of the Temple in Jerusalem. Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai to go through the sea, to eat Manna, to fight Amalek, and to come home to the Promised Land. Read more The Yishai Fleisher Show articles InDepth Why all the Miracles? Shmuel Sackett So much is spoken and written these days about Emunah but I beg to differ. What is needed is Bitachon – strength and resolve in the future and the courage to take on those challenges Is Israel’s International Isolation Diminishing? Elliott Abrams Votes against Israel at the United Nations over the decades seem to indicate it is a pariah nation, but the country’s expanding bilateral ties tell a different story. Can the OU Expel Synagogues From Orthodoxy? Rabbi Gil Student Let's say the OU were to expel a synagogue, or 4, what practical difference would it make? Read more InDepth articles JewishPress.com Radio Camel Cocktail and Canine Consumption – Israel On My Mind [audio] Israel on My Mind Israel News Talk Radio Bizarre food and drink items. The Pence Visit – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio] The Jay Shapiro Show Israel News Talk Radio The unique relation between the United States and Israel. JEWISH ECOLOGY: CELEBRATING TU B’SHEVAT – Pull Up A Chair [audio] Pull Up a Chair Israel News Talk Radio Farmers plant before they reap and we, too, "cultivate" our faith and commitment to God. V.P. Pence, The Kurd’s and Erdoğan’s Invasion of Syria – Beyond the Matrix Matrix [audio] Beyond the Matrix Israel News Talk Radio Turkey's invasion of northern Syria. Read more JewishPress.com Radio articles Jewish Parshas Beshalach Rabbi Yaakov Klass . AlephBeta: Beshalach: What Does It Mean to Have Faith? Rabbi David Fohrman After Israel sings a song of thanksgiving, curiously, Miriam then leads the women of the nation in a second song. Why? Parshat BeShalach: Jewish Self Delusion Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo Though rooted back in our servitude in Egypt, to this day, similar attitudes of Jewish self-deception often create the foundations of Jewish self-rejection and self-hate, which become the root of animosity toward anyone who does not join this self-imposed denial of the Jewish cause. Dance of Forgiveness Rabbi Simcha Weinberg Miriam and the women who followed her recognized that Israel would be unable to move forward until they forgave God for their suffering and their fear. So they sang of God desiring to share His power with them so that they too would be able to "hurl horse with rider into the sea," as Israel does to Amalek in the closing scene of the portion. Reframing the Debate Over Women’s Religious Leadership Rabbi Aryeh Klapper The religious state of nature does not enable the building of a religious society. Since human beings are social creatures, it follows that the state of nature does not enable human fulfillment.   We therefore need a religious social contract.  Cue Sinai; enter, the Torah. The Unforgettable Wonders Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The genius of the biblical narrative of the crossing of the Reed Sea is that it does not resolve the issue of whether it was a miracle or merely natural, one way or another. It gives us both perspectives-you decide Chesed And Rachamim In Our Lives (Part Two) Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis More eternal wisdom from Rebbetzin Jungreis, a”h. This week considering how to become an agent of chesed (compassion) and rachamim (mercy)-continued from last week. The Broader Picture Rabbi Mordechai Weiss In the midst of his writing, he chanced to look down at the dance floor. He noticed that from afar, it seemed like he was witnessing poetry in motion. Miracles In The Hospital Adina Hershberg After being checked by a doctor, my father needed to undergo some minor surgery. It was clear to his two children in Israel that my father could no longer live independently. Q & A: Covering The Challah Rabbi Yaakov Klass Question: Why do we cover the challah when we make Kiddush? Why don’t we cover any other foods on the table? Zelig Aronson Daf Yomi Rabbi Yaakov Klass To Have Or To Hold ‘Renting Is Not Owning’ (Avodah Zara 15a) You Must Believe Me That I Repaid You Earlier Today Because I Could Have Said I Repaid Yesterday (Siman 78:4) Raphael Grunfeld Such a defense can only be raised at the end of the day because it is based on a migo. The migo is that if the borrower were lying, he could have come up with a better defense. Intended Gift Rabbi Meir Orlian "It won't be easy to buy another one," said Mrs. Lieber. "It was an odd sale item I found in an antique store. It's not right to give away what I got special for them." Read more Jewish articles The Merit Of Trusting Hashem Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier The difficulty with this Rashi is that he lists all three reasons in same breath as if they are equal, and clearly they aren’t. Click for your Print subscription to The Jewish Press . Forward this email to a friend .