“I made God my partner”: Israel’s finance minister on faith, war, and the miracle nobody predicted
Securing a comprehensive interview with Betzalel Smotrich is no easy feat. With the war against Iran and Hezbollah ongoing, Smotrich serves on both the Security and inner Cabinets while also shouldering the immense responsibility of Finance Minister. In recent weeks, however, something else has consumed him.
Gen Z is supposed to be done with religion. Someone forgot to tell them.
Steve Little was teaching a leadership class to his own employees last month when he asked, almost as an aside, how many of them were actively practicing religion. He was expecting a smattering of hands. Instead, 80 percent of the room – employees aged 26 to 38 – raised their hands.
First-ever Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast lands in Ottawa as Canada-Israel ties hang in the balance
With antisemitism surging across Canadian campuses and public squares, and with Canada-Israel relations strained in the post-October 7 political landscape, the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Ottawa arrived as a much-needed faith-based counter-offensive.
Knesset restores rabbinical courts, echoing Isaiah: “I will restore your judges as of old”
By a vote of 65 to 41, lawmakers approved legislation allowing state rabbinical and Sharia courts to arbitrate civil disputes, a move supporters describe as a return to tradition and critics warn could reshape the balance between religion and state.
UK poll: 1 in 5 students won’t live with a Jew, nearly half have seen justification of October 7 massacre
The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) released its landmark report this week, based on a poll of 1,000 students. The findings are an indictment of the failure of British higher education to protect its Jewish students, and a warning to the Jewish world about where institutional indifference leads.
Jewish births surge 74% as Arab rate collapses, defusing demographic bomb and fulfilling an ancient promise
Israel’s enemies and even some of its friends warned that a surging Arab birth rate would eventually make Jews a minority in their own land, forcing a choice between democracy and Jewish sovereignty. What none of them counted on was that the God of Israel had already written the ending, and it looks nothing like their projections.
From pharaoh to the present: The persistence of anti-Jewish conspiracies
Americans should be shocked and concerned that someone capable of believing outrageous conspiracies could rise to a position of such importance.
You’re invited: two rabbis walk you through the most important night in the Bible
Every Christian who loves Scripture has read about it. But reading about Passover and actually experiencing it are two very different things. You can experience it yourself in a special webinar this Sunday.
Israel is in the miracle business… and business is good
Our greatest defense is not the Iron Dome or American aircraft carriers. It’s God’s miracles that have protected this land and people for thousands of years, and continue to do so today.
UN watchdog praises Somalia, criticizes US, stays silent on Iran’s attacks on Israel
“I strongly condemn the Israeli & US aggression against Iran, in violation of the most fundamental rule of international law, the ban on the use of force,” he wrote. In another post the same day: “This is not lawful self-defence against an armed attack by Iran.”