Your daily window into Israel, straight from a rabbi on the ground
How Rabbi Rami Goldberg turned a WhatsApp group into a congregation of 600, and why people keep coming back for the prayers, not just the content.
I did not choose to be a Jew. And that is exactly the point.
My Jewish identity has nothing to do with what I believe or what I do. Indeed, my being a Jew has very little to do with me. I did not earn the title. I never chose to be a Jew. I am a Jew because of everything that came before me.
They burned Jews. Now they burn Netanyahu in effigy. One woman isn’t cheering.
Calling your own prime minister an antisemite to his face, in public, on the record, takes courage anywhere. In Spain, it is almost unheard of.
Israel was never meant to be a safe haven. It was meant to be a light unto the nations.
Rabbi Lavie believes that the current war has created a shift in Israel’s essential role, changing it from a post-Holocaust safe-haven and moving it towards its sacred purpose as a moral and spiritual leader of the nations.
“Trained rats” in Gaza? Palestinian officials push new anti-Israel conspiracy theory
Palestinian officials in Gaza claimed that Israel is deliberately releasing “weaponized” rats into the Strip to attack civilians, particularly children and the sick, at a time when the territory is already grappling with a documented surge in rodent infestations tied to war damage and deteriorating sanitation.
Israel’s public relations offensive: 8,000 Christian influencers battling for hearts and minds
Israel’s Foreign Ministry is planning to bring 8,000 young Christian leaders to the Jewish State by 2026. Officials call it one of the most significant public diplomacy initiatives in the country’s history. At least one American Christian leader behind the effort is doing so under death threats.
When enemies become brothers: the African Christian general ready to fight for Israel
Last month, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba posted that he was “ready to deploy 100,000 Ugandan soldiers in Israel, under my command, to protect the Holy Land — the land of Jesus Christ our God.”
Call them what they are: blasphemers
On September 11, 2001, nineteen men boarded four commercial planes and murdered nearly three thousand people, believing men who claimed to speak for God, that they would be rewarded with paradise. That promise was not religion. It was blasphemy.
Living Between the Ceasefires
In Israel these days, there’s a shorthand in our speech and mannerisms that are just understood and can be discerned quickly, in under five seconds.
Temple gold in a Jerusalem church basement? The explosive story the church doesn’t want you to ask about
Somewhere beneath a 12th-century Crusader church in the heart of Jerusalem, a professor of numismatics once stood in a dark cellar staring at golden vessels he immediately recognized as the sacred utensils of the Holy Temple