“We Are Not Arabs”: Lt. Col. (Res.) Ihab Shlayan on Christian Identity, IDF Service, and the Fight to Save Christianity in the Holy Land
What is it like to be a Christian in Israel—and why do many Israeli Christians insist, “We are not Arabs”? In this eye-opening episode of Shoulder to Shoulder, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and Pastor Doug Reed speak with Lieutenant Colonel (Reserves) Ihab Shlayan, the IDF’s most senior Christian officer and founder of Christian Voice in Israel. […]
What Are Christians Really Celebrating at Christmas? A Conversation with Pastor Nate Brown
On this special Christmas Eve episode of Shoulder to Shoulder, Pastor Doug Reed flies solo while Rabbi Pesach is on his way back from Amfest and the Hanukkah celebration at the White House. Doug welcomes Pastor Nate Brown, cohost of the Under God podcast and pastor of Vintage Church in Liberty Hill, Texas, for a […]
Bondi Beach Terror, On the Ground in Israel, and the Muslim Brotherhood
In this episode of Shoulder to Shoulder, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and Pastor Doug Reed respond to the terrorist attack on the Hanukkah candle lighting at Bondi Beach in Sydney and the broader surge of antisemitic and ant- Christian violence across the West. They then continue their conversation about Doug’s recent trip to Israel and what […]
Smuggled in a Coffin: A Somali Imam’s Journey from Persecution to Underground Church
In this unforgettable episode of Shoulder to Shoulder, Pastor Doug and Rabbi Pesach sit down with Dr. Michael Brawan of Kenya and Rev. Adam Hajj Muhammad of Somalia, a former imam whose decision to follow Jesus cost him almost everything. Adam describes his childhood in a radically devout Muslim family, his rise as a respected […]
Antisemitism, Jihad, and the Collapse of the West, with Francisco Gil-White
With Doug on the road, Rabbi Pesach flies solo and sits down with political anthropologist Francisco Gil-White, a scholar whose life’s work explores antisemitism as a deliberate tool of totalitarian power. Drawing a line from the Bible and the Exodus story through Rome, the Church, Nazism, the Soviet Union, and today’s jihadist movements, Gil-White argues […]
Gratitude at the Heart of Faith
As Thanksgiving approaches in the United States, Pastor Doug Reed and Rabbi Pesach Wolicki take a step back from politics and crisis and focus on something fundamental and powerful: the practice of gratitude. Doug shares what Thanksgiving looks like in his home, while Pesach describes how his family in Israel marks the holiday and why […]
Rabbi Tuly Weisz: Arguing for Zionism and forging strong bonds between Jews and Christians
Rabbi Tuly Weisz is the founder of Israel365, an organization established to strengthen ties between Jews and Christian and highlighting the biblical significance of Israel.Tuly is also the editor of The Israel Bible, a bilingual Hebrew–English edition of the Hebrew Bible focused on the connection between the land, the people and the God of Israel. […]
Truth Over Tribe: Dr. James Lindsay on Why Both Sides Turned on Him
What if Israel is the stress test that exposes what’s broken on both the far left and the far right? Dr. James Lindsay, a mathematician turned political heretic, went from progressive insider to conservative rockstar – and then got canceled by both sides for calling out ideological extremism. Fresh from a recent trip to Israel, […]
Mamdani, Marxism, Islam, and the Future of the United States
This week on Shoulder to Shoulder, Pesach and Doug sit down with Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch.org to dive into his explosive new book, Intifada on the Hudson. We take a deep look at NYC’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the growing influence of the Red-Green Alliance. What happens when secular Marxism links arms with Islam? Our conversation […]
Israel, Power, and the Case for Real Self Sufficiency
On this episode of Shoulder to Shoulder Pastor Doug and Rabbi Pesach sit down with Geopolitical Scholar Dr. Raphael BenLevi for a frank conversation about why Israel must be able to stand on its own. They explore the difference between partnership and dependence, the strategic risks of relying too heavily on other nations, and what […]