Why your name belongs on your hand
Psychologists call this externalization, the act of taking something internal, a memory, a commitment, a belief, and turning it into an object that can be touched, seen, and returned to.
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.
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.
The object you look at every day is getting an upgrade
Ask someone what’s hanging in their living room, and they can tell you. Ask about the kitchen, and you’ll usually get a calendar, glanced at a dozen times a day, checked for appointments and birthdays and the date of the next dentist visit, and never once looked at as anything but a grid of numbers.
The valley where redemption looks like nothing
We want deliverance to arrive the way it does in the stories: all at once, unmistakable, with the sea standing up on either side. Instead we get a slow gray lightening over a ridge, and we believe nothing is happening at all.
Why this rabbi defends Christian Zionists to his own community
A rabbi and a Black itinerant pastor sat across from each other in a Dallas Starbucks, and the rabbi finally asked the question he’d been circling for months. “Can we talk about the elephant in the room?”
The part of recovery nobody sees
Right now, about 1.2 million people in Israel are caring for a family member who is seriously ill or disabled. Most of them earn nothing for it. Most of them go unrecognized. They do not show up in any count that matters, and the researchers who study them keep reaching for the same word. Invisible.
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.Â
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.