His rabbi warned him: Don’t come to Israel
The Prophet Isaiah did not describe a single dramatic ingathering. He described something more like a steady stream. Young people packing bags and boarding planes, leaving families and familiar streets, stepping off into a country where they don’t yet speak the language or understand the culture, and building a life there anyway.
The book of Judges and the crisis of belonging
Before I made aliyah to Israel, I spent nearly a decade as a teacher. During my graduate studies in education, one of my professors assigned a book called Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon.
The shark tank nobody talks about
Shark Tank has made television out of a simple premise: desperate entrepreneurs, ruthless investors, and the primal thrill of watching someone’s dream get torn apart or bought for a percentage they’ll regret. It works. But Ed Pierce thinks he can do better.
Iran fires on Israel on the 23rd of Sivan, the Hebrew calendar day when Haman’s decrees get reversed
V’nahafoch hu is not merely a historical account of what happened on a single day in ancient Persia. The Sages understood it as a governing principle of Jewish existence: those who construct the machinery of Jewish annihilation have a persistent tendency to be destroyed by it themselves.
We took Isaiah 61 to Kenya, and 150 people walked free
Ten months ago, I traveled to Kenya to install three water wells for communities in desperate need. One of those wells went into the Bomet Prison. I didn’t know then how significant that visit would turn out to be.
Israeli scientists reverse signs of aging, shedding light on biblical prophecies of Messianic longevity
One of the most striking promises of the Messianic era is that human life will be dramatically extended. While that age has not yet arrived, Israeli scientists have achieved a breakthrough that is drawing renewed attention to the Bible’s vision of longevity.
America is forgetting the Bible. Jews and Christians are fighting back.
The American Bible Society found that only 17 percent of American adults have read the entire Bible, while more than half rarely or never engage with it at all. Among Christians under 35, the numbers are significantly worse. That number has been declining for years, and there is no sign it is turning around.Â
Israel365 Bible Month: Every book of the Hebrew Bible, starting June 1
America is turning 250 years old this summer. And Israel365 wants to mark that milestone by going back to the book that made America possible.
Why did God give the Bible to idol worshippers?
I’ve spent the last two years thinking and writing about this question, and I’ve come to believe it is directly connected to the greatest crisis facing the American Jews today. That crisis, and the answer to this ancient question, are the subject of my new book, Countdown: American Jews and God’s Plan for Redemption, published this week.
Returning lost tribe of Ephraim: Sanhedrin meets Pashtun man from Afghanistan
A man from Afghanistan walked into a meeting with the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem this week and introduced himself as a son of Yusuf, son of Yaakov, of the nation of Bani Israel. He is from the tribe of Ephraim. And he just may be the beginning of the return of millions of Pashtun as the prophesied return of the lost tribes of Israel.