Rabbi Mischel: The “evil Talmud” says Christians who study the Bible are holy
The Talmud, which many Christians were taught to fear as a man-made perversion of God’s word, teaches that a non-Jew who studies God’s commandments is like the High Priest of Israel. This book they fear holds the missing details of the Bible they love.
Study finds Jeroboam’s year-round factory for Temple materials
A new study of Tel Shiqmona, a state-run industrial compound of the biblical Kingdom of Israel, has found that a single building there was used for different industries in different seasons, rotating with the agricultural year.
An escape from Jerusalem in a coffin
A brother who saved his rival, a dramatic escape, and more: Rabbi Mark Fishman and Rabbi Elie Mischel are back on Bible Plus with two new courses that bring the Bible to Life.
Red-green wave: Socialists and Islamists ride Democratic sweep of Congress as ancient Esau-Ishmael prophecy unfolds
Democrats take the House and Senate, carrying a bloc of Israel’s harshest critics into power. The counterintuitive alliance between Islamists and liberals was foreseen in Jewish tradition as the partnership of Esav and Yishmael, and we know how it ends.
“We are Ephraim”: Christians claiming to be the lost tribes are reviving replacement theology, rabbi warns
Rabbi Elie Mischel says Christians who believe they are the lost tribes of Israel repeat the church’s oldest error in a new form. God will gather the tribes Himself, and the nations already hold a holy role of their own.
The enemy in the Siddur: Rabbi warns of Armilus, the Jewish Antichrist few Jews have heard of
Jews pray three times a day for protection from an end-of-days destroyer most of them cannot name. A New York rabbi says Armilus may already be operating through Iran or forces centered on Rome, as Christianity and Islam carry their own versions of the same figure.
Samuel’s thunder returns: Israel votes as storm strikes on anniversary of Noah’s flood
Israelis who went to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next government walked out of the voting booths into the first heavy storm of the season, which broke as the Hebrew calendar turned to 17 Cheshvan, the date on which, according to Jewish tradition, the rains of Noah’s Flood began to fall.
Rabbi Kaduri’s signs: Elections without a government, and a redemption this year
Israelis go to the polls tomorrow, and the final surveys agree on only one thing: neither camp is close to the 61 seats needed to form a government. Decades ago, Rabbi Kaduri named a sign that would precede the Messiah: elections without a government.
Israel’s new space division enters heavenly battlefield the Bible described 3,000 years ago
The IDF has appointed the first commander of a new Space Division, formally declaring space an active battlefield and placing Israel among the handful of nations organizing their militaries to fight beyond the atmosphere.
Yishmael’s mobs drive France’s Jews home as Israel readies for a new wave of aliyah
Schools set on fire in the Paris suburbs, students hurling objects at police in Rennes and Grenoble, and nearly 5,000 arrests have pushed Israel’s government to plan for something it has seen before: French Jews heading for the airport.