Many Christian Arabs proud to be Israeli, Ambassador George Deek says

Israeli society gives Arab Christians a combination of “freedom, opportunity, and belonging,” which is why many of them “are proud to be Israeli,” Israel’s ambassador to the Christian World, George Deek, said at the Israel365 offices in Beit Shemesh.
Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple

The Sanhedrin operates on the premise that a rabbinical court has the standing to issue a psak, a binding halachic ruling, and that, in matters concerning the fate of the Jewish people, a court above is bound to follow the ruling of a court below.
Hitler’s house gets a new life as his ideology gets new followers: Nazism, Amalek, and Palestinianism

The Austrian government has remodeled an inn in Austria to discourage sick and twisted pilgrims from paying homage to the infamous man born there more than 130 years ago. But despite the attempt to give a new face to Hitler’s birthplace, the horrifying ideology is experiencing a resurgence.
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.