The Jewish gift this Christian family won’t give back

In March 2020, the Howell family sat down for their first Sabbath. They were not entirely sure what they were doing, but committed to stepping back from work from Friday night to Saturday night. It felt like a leap of faith. Within a few weeks, the entire world shut down.

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.

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.