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.
Extending honorary citizenship to today’s Righteous Among the Nations
As Israel repositions itself for the future it is building, the Jewish state must ask itself a question that is long overdue: what can we do to formally recognize the millions of Christian brothers and sisters who have demonstrated tremendous sacrifice, solidarity, and love on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people?
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.
‘Israel, you are not alone’: Christian descendants of Nazis march through Israel during wartime
Even as rockets fell and air raid sirens pierced the Israeli night, more than 200 participants from 11 nations refused to cancel their trips. They had come to march through the streets of Israel; not to protest, not to demand anything, but simply to say: you are not alone.