Diplomatic triumph: Somaliland opens its embassy in Jerusalem!
In a massive diplomatic victory for Israel and a major shakeup in the Horn of Africa, Somaliland has officially opened its embassy doors right here in Jerusalem. By taking this bold step, Somaliland has proudly planted its flag in the city of King David rather than Tel Aviv, completely ignoring international pressure.
Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman dream: Why a Turkish bid to reclaim the empire should worry U.S. Christians more than Jews
This warning is about geopolitics and Israeli security, but it is also a warning about what happens to Christian communities every time this particular project has been tried before.
A second red heifer is born in the Golan: “God is pressing us toward building the Temple.”
“The team at the Institute expected potential heifers to be born this season, but her birth so close to Tisha B’Av gives the strong sense that God is pressing us to accelerate the path toward building the Temple. The real question is whether we want to.”
Mamdani admits he can’t arrest Netanyahu as Trump administration launches campaign to dismantle the ICC
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged that he has no legal authority to arrest PM Benjamin Netanyahu, backing away from a pledge he had repeated for more than a year, while the Trump administration separately announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court itself.
Echoes of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in today’s Islamic conquest of the West
The destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem struck at the very foundation of Jewish life. Sadly, there are parallels between Rome’s siege and conquest of Jerusalem 1,956 years ago and the Islamist siege of Western society today.
Study solves decades-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery: Qumran sect used a calendar doomed to fail
A calendar that governed the Qumran sect’s religious life but was mathematically guaranteed to fall apart was not merely a theological abstraction. It was used, in practice, by a community willing to base its entire religious identity on a system it must have known would eventually collapse.
New episode of The Universal Zionist asks why Jews still mourn a Temple destroyed two thousand years ago
Rabbi Tuly Weisz released the second episode of his podcast, The Universal Zionist, this week, sitting down with Rabbi Dr. J.J. Schacter just as the Jewish world enters the days leading up to Tisha B’Av, the fast day marking the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem.
Mourning together, worldwide: Tisha B’Av events reach beyond the synagogue this year
Tisha B’Av is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. It marks the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem, catastrophes that Jewish tradition holds occurred roughly 655 years apart on the same Hebrew date, along with a string of later tragedies in Jewish history that fell on the same day.
Malaysia vows to deport any Israeli found within its borders
Malaysia’s Prime Minister has built his tenure on an outspoken pro-Palestinian foreign policy and open contact with Hamas. After the October 7 massacre, Anwar telephoned Hamas’s then-political leader to express “unwavering support for the Palestinian people.”
AIPAC cuts off 15 House Democrats after they voted to strip Israel’s missile defense funding
An AIPAC spokesperson told the New York Times that the organization’s members are “deeply appreciative of their representatives who stand on principle” and are disappointed by those who do not.