Marla Maples: Trump carries the Zohar over his heart “for protection and healing”
“He carries with him the Book of Pinchas, the Book of Zohar, in Aramaic. He puts it over his heart, inside, for protection and healing,” Maples said.
Living history
Every generation lives through history. Every generation experiences wars, political upheaval, scientific discoveries, and social change. So what makes our generation any different? The answer is not simply the pace of events. It is their direction.
Inside Ben Gvir’s crocodile prison plan: Great crocodile of the Nile, reporting for duty
A temporary injunction issued Sunday froze National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s plan to surround Ketziot Prison with a moat of live crocodiles, which holds detained Hamas terrorists and other Palestinian security prisoners.
Israel’s week of shake and bake: An earthquake, a heatwave, and what the sages say about both
Israel spent the past several days caught between two forms of natural disturbance. A heatwave scorched the country over Shabbat, and an earthquake centered in Egypt rattled homes from Beersheba to Jerusalem two days later.
A Shabbat in Austin, Built on Friendship
Rabbi Elie Mischel, Director of Education for Israel365, will lead a Shabbat afternoon Bible study for Jews and Christians at the Dell Jewish Community Campus in Austin, Texas
Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple
The Sanhedrin operates on the premise that a rabbinical court has the standing to issue a psak, a binding halachic ruling, and that, in matters concerning the fate of the Jewish people, a court above is bound to follow the ruling of a court below.
Viral Nigerian “Moses” video gets roasted on TV. But there’s a deeper story here.
It makes for an easy laugh online, but it’s worth remembering what backdrop a Nigerian pastor is actually preaching against: a country where Boko Haram and its ISWAP offshoot have spent more than a decade abducting, enslaving and trafficking Christian women and girls.
A second red heifer is born in the Golan: “God is pressing us toward building the Temple.”
“The team at the Institute expected potential heifers to be born this season, but her birth so close to Tisha B’Av gives the strong sense that God is pressing us to accelerate the path toward building the Temple. The real question is whether we want to.”
Echoes of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in today’s Islamic conquest of the West
The destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem struck at the very foundation of Jewish life. Sadly, there are parallels between Rome’s siege and conquest of Jerusalem 1,956 years ago and the Islamist siege of Western society today.
Study solves decades-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery: Qumran sect used a calendar doomed to fail
A calendar that governed the Qumran sect’s religious life but was mathematically guaranteed to fall apart was not merely a theological abstraction. It was used, in practice, by a community willing to base its entire religious identity on a system it must have known would eventually collapse.