The blueprint and the boundary
For centuries, Temple-related commandments remained mostly theoretical, studied in detail but rarely translated into practical preparation. In recent decades, that has begun to change, with much of the momentum for real-world planning and readiness coming from outside the people of Israel.
God said he’d bring the Jews home. Nobody believed him.
Every few days, another flight lands at Ben Gurion Airport, and Jews step off the plane clutching their bags and their children, leaving behind careers and comfort and countries their families have lived in for generations.
Inside a historic Shabbat: Eagles’ Wings and Efrat, together at last
Last Friday night, nearly 100 young leaders from Eagles’ Wings, the Christian Zionist ministry that has brought tens of thousands of Christians to Israel, spent Shabbat as guests in the homes of more than two dozen families in Efrat, a thriving community in Judea and Samaria.
The Shabbat table that’s bridging Jews and Christians together in Efrat
This Friday night, August 7, eighty-five young Christian leaders will walk through the streets of Efrat as the sun sets over the Judean Hills, heading not to a hotel ballroom but to the dinner tables of dozens of Jewish families who have opened their homes for Shabbat.
Many Christian Arabs proud to be Israeli, Ambassador George Deek says
Israeli society gives Arab Christians a combination of “freedom, opportunity, and belonging,” which is why many of them “are proud to be Israeli,” Israel’s ambassador to the Christian World, George Deek, said at the Israel365 offices in Beit Shemesh.
Israeli TV host halts live broadcast to recite mourner’s blessing for Lindsey Graham
Magal told his audience he wanted to do something that he had never done on air before: recite the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer set aside in Jewish law for the closest relatives of the Jewish dead. It was even more surprising that this deeply religious Jewish prayer was being said to honor a man who was a devout Christian.
Empty chairs and fresh stickers: A Christian’s journey through Israel’s grief and joy
Israelis are most often described as “resilient,” yet that word feels insufficient. It fails to encapsulate the strength and fortitude required to face a unique form of evil and still choose to celebrate life and joy, even in the most uncertain of circumstances.
The flag Christians are afraid to raise
The tide of antisemitism can be turned, but only by Christians who refuse to stay silent.
The foundation is cracking: Jews and Christians confront America’s Bible crisis
Three weeks before America’s 250th birthday, a question hung over a webinar that drew registrants from Virginia to England to India to Idaho: not what America has been, but what it will become.
Why the “two-state solution” would eliminate Christianity from the Middle East
A “two-state solution” would endanger Israel, but it would also mark the end of Christianity in this part of the world, the region where Jesus was born.