The foundation is cracking: Jews and Christians confront America’s Bible crisis
Three weeks before America’s 250th birthday, a question hung over a webinar that drew registrants from Virginia to England to India to Idaho: not what America has been, but what it will become.
The book of Judges and the crisis of belonging
Before I made aliyah to Israel, I spent nearly a decade as a teacher. During my graduate studies in education, one of my professors assigned a book called Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon.
The shark tank nobody talks about
Shark Tank has made television out of a simple premise: desperate entrepreneurs, ruthless investors, and the primal thrill of watching someone’s dream get torn apart or bought for a percentage they’ll regret. It works. But Ed Pierce thinks he can do better.
America is forgetting the Bible. Jews and Christians are fighting back.
The American Bible Society found that only 17 percent of American adults have read the entire Bible, while more than half rarely or never engage with it at all. Among Christians under 35, the numbers are significantly worse. That number has been declining for years, and there is no sign it is turning around.Â
The countdown has begun: A conversation with Rabbi Elie Mischel, Part 2
The time has come to speak openly and honestly about who we are and what we are here for. I believe that clarity, Jewish clarity about Jewish identity, is essential to the redemptive process that both Jews and Christians are waiting for. We are in this together. And the first step is telling the truth.
The countdown has begun: A conversation with Rabbi Elie Mischel, Part 1
As Rabbi Elie Mischel released Countdown: American Jews and God’s Plan for Redemption, a congressional candidate rose in the polls after calling to imprison American Zionists for treason. Rabbi Mischel explains why he believes the growing hostility toward Jews is part of God’s plan for redemption.
Israel365 Bible Month: Every book of the Hebrew Bible, starting June 1
America is turning 250 years old this summer. And Israel365 wants to mark that milestone by going back to the book that made America possible.
An Indiana tragedy. A mission that reached Gaza.
Six years ago, Scott Dodson stood in a hospital and said goodbye to his brother, who tragically bled out on the side of an Indiana road after a head-on collision with a truck. First responders resuscitated him three and four times just to keep him alive long enough for the family to get there. It was the last time Dodson would see him.
The books you’ll actually read this summer start here
These are books about biblical prophecy unfolding in real time, about the land where Scripture happened, about the questions that have shaped Jewish and Christian faith for three thousand years. Every one of them will change how you read your Bible and how you understand the news.
Why did God give the Bible to idol worshippers?
I’ve spent the last two years thinking and writing about this question, and I’ve come to believe it is directly connected to the greatest crisis facing the American Jews today. That crisis, and the answer to this ancient question, are the subject of my new book, Countdown: American Jews and God’s Plan for Redemption, published this week.