New scans push Turkey’s Noah’s Ark formation closer to proof
Renewed interest in the ark’s remains carries meaning beyond the question of archaeology. It stands as a reminder that mankind entered into a binding covenant with God the moment Noah stepped off that vessel, one that has never been revoked and continues to carry obligations today.
Is the IDF becoming Gideon’s army of God?
By 2025, a religious man serving in Israel’s military reserves was more than twice as likely to still be in uniform each month than his secular counterpart.
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You want to go deeper. You’ve read the stories and heard the sermons. Maybe you’ve worked through a study guide or two. Something still feels missing.
Establishing the Beis HaMikdash Party in Israeli democracy
To some, bringing the concept of the Beis HaMikdash into the political arena might seem unconventional. Yet, Israeli democracy was built to allow every vision within the Jewish nation to find its voice.
Sanhedrin rules: shofar will sound on Rosh Hashanah, even though it falls on Shabbat
A beit din (rabbinic court) of three, led by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel on behalf of the nascent Sanhedrin, announced this week that it has renewed a ruling permitting the shofar to be blown on Shabbat when Rosh Hashanah falls on the seventh day of the week.
Where is the Ark of the Covenant today? A Torah scholar weighs in on the leading theories
The Ark of the Covenant remains one of the oldest open questions in Jewish tradition, and one with real stakes: Jewish sources tie the Ark’s return directly to the Third Temple and to the return of prophecy itself.
Don’t wait to get inspired
The instinct to seek out something meaningful each day is right. The places most people go looking are the problem.
The object you look at every day is getting an upgrade
Ask someone what’s hanging in their living room, and they can tell you. Ask about the kitchen, and you’ll usually get a calendar, glanced at a dozen times a day, checked for appointments and birthdays and the date of the next dentist visit, and never once looked at as anything but a grid of numbers.
The valley where redemption looks like nothing
We want deliverance to arrive the way it does in the stories: all at once, unmistakable, with the sea standing up on either side. Instead we get a slow gray lightening over a ridge, and we believe nothing is happening at all.
“Flesh shall rot away while they stand”: A modern outbreak meets an ancient prophecy
A rare and often fatal “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed at least seven people along the Gulf Coast so far this year, with health officials in two states warning residents to stay cautious around warm coastal water through the rest of the summer.