Sanhedrin to America: The Iran deal is a fantasy, and it will cost you everything
A regime that hanged four of its own citizens every day throughout 2025 does not, by any rational calculation, transform into a reliable partner because American negotiators flew to Geneva.
Stop reading the Bible backwards
We are the most resourced generation of Bible readers in history, and one of the least literate. By nearly every measure, the church’s grasp of its own Scriptures keeps thinning.
Buried 2,700-year-old pillar in Judean mansion may confirm Hezekiah’s war on idol worship
That discovery may be the strongest physical evidence yet for one of the most contested episodes in the Bible: King Hezekiah’s campaign to abolish idolatrous worship throughout Judah.
You’ve read the Bible. But have you read it like this?
Eight out of ten Americans call themselves Bible believers. Fewer than half can name the first five books. Sixty percent cannot name even five of the Ten Commandments. And according to researchers who have tracked this for decades, it is getting worse every year.
The dry bones are breathing again
A few months ago, in a café in the heart of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Chaim Navon overheard a conversation he did not expect.
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.