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.
Iran closes tomb of Mordechai and Esther, citing renovations. Sources say security threats are the real reason.
The notice named a single cause: ongoing repairs. Sources familiar with the situation tell a different story, one involving threats from extremist elements inside Iran.
Obadiah promised Spain’s exiles would return; a Sanhedrin ruling just tested that promise
Sepharad, the Hebrew name for Spain, appears in the Bible alongside a promise that Israel’s exiles there will one day return to their land. The Sanhedrin’s ruling treats that promise as unfinished business.
“God Had Other Plans”: Skye Davis on failure, faith, and the business she never meant to run
Skye Davis spent years trying to build something with her name on it. What she could not see yet was that the plan had been sitting in front of her the whole time, at the front desk of her father’s hardware store.
Turkey’s F-35 push, its march into Syria, and the Sanhedrin’s warning: “Whoever curses Israel will be cursed”
Turkey is positioning itself as the most consequential military threat facing Israel in the north, and this week’s NATO summit in Ankara has put that threat on full display.