A church was vandalized by a Muslim Arab in Jaffa; the media blamed Jews anyway
A church in Jaffa was vandalized last week, and within hours the story had been that Jews are waging a campaign of violence against Christians in Israel. But what the media didn’t report was that the suspect arrested for that crime was a Muslim Arab.
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You want to go deeper. You’ve read the stories and heard the sermons. Maybe you’ve worked through a study guide or two. Something still feels missing.
The part of Rosh Hashanah most people miss
Ask anyone in Israel what Rosh Hashanah looks like, and you’ll hear the same picture: a round challah, apples and honey, a pomegranate, maybe fish, and a family gathered around a table. All of that is part of the holiday. It is not the heart of it.
Israel begins building execution facility as Ben-Gvir’s “30 to 40 a night” remarks draw European condemnation
Israel’s National Security Minister announced the start of construction on a dedicated execution facility for Palestinians sentenced to death under Israel’s new death penalty law, days after his comments calling for Israel to kill “30 to 40” Gazans nightly drew condemnation.
Establishing the Beis HaMikdash Party in Israeli democracy
To some, bringing the concept of the Beis HaMikdash into the political arena might seem unconventional. Yet, Israeli democracy was built to allow every vision within the Jewish nation to find its voice.
Sanhedrin rules: shofar will sound on Rosh Hashanah, even though it falls on Shabbat
A beit din (rabbinic court) of three, led by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel on behalf of the nascent Sanhedrin, announced this week that it has renewed a ruling permitting the shofar to be blown on Shabbat when Rosh Hashanah falls on the seventh day of the week.
Jewish Men Pray From Prayer Books on the Temple Mount: The Quiet Revolution Bringing the Third Temple
Jewish worshipers were allowed to carry and read from full siddurim (prayer books) on the Temple Mount on Sunday, the latest and most significant challenge to a decades-old policy barring non-Muslim prayer at Judaism’s holiest site.
Where is the Ark of the Covenant today? A Torah scholar weighs in on the leading theories
The Ark of the Covenant remains one of the oldest open questions in Jewish tradition, and one with real stakes: Jewish sources tie the Ark’s return directly to the Third Temple and to the return of prophecy itself.
Don’t wait to get inspired
The instinct to seek out something meaningful each day is right. The places most people go looking are the problem.
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.