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.
Holy joy: Laughing our way to redemption
My father is a medical clown, the son of Holocaust survivors, a retired American businessman, and the grandfather of soldiers in the IDF. On our upcoming prayer call, I am going to sit down with him and ask him how one life holds all of that.
From Hollywood to the Holy Land: New podcast on Universal Zionism opens with interview you don’t want to miss
Zionism used to mean building a state. Then it meant building a religious homeland. Israel365 has a new podcast built around the argument that it now means something bigger: turning outward and becoming a light to the whole world
“God Had Other Plans”: Skye Davis on failure, faith, and the business she never meant to run
Skye Davis spent years trying to build something with her name on it. What she could not see yet was that the plan had been sitting in front of her the whole time, at the front desk of her father’s hardware store.
Why reading to your child is one of the most powerful things you’ll do today
Children who are read to regularly hear roughly a million more words by kindergarten than children who aren’t. That gap doesn’t come from flashcards or drills. It comes from twenty minutes on a lap, before bed, book after book, night after night.
Inside the room shaping Israel’s future
In attendance? A finance minister, the country’s most closely read political journalist, the Knesset member leading the sovereignty debate, Taiwan’s ambassador to Israel, and an American television actress who left Hollywood to make Israel her home.
Tonight in Jerusalem: The questions that will define Israel’s next decade
Tonight, some of the most influential figures in Israeli public life, including Cabinet ministers, ambassadors, Members of Knesset, journalists, leading thinkers, and activists, will gather in Jerusalem to debate the future of the Jewish state.
Two Flags. One Covenant.
In August 1790, George Washington sat down to answer a letter. The Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, had written to their new president, anxious men in a young country, unsure whether the freedom they had just won would extend to a people rarely welcome anywhere
Sweeter than honey: Bible Plus adds four new courses this month
King David wrote that God’s words are sweeter than honey to the mouth. This month, Bible Plus is putting that verse in motion.
When celebrities find God, Hollywood looks the other way
Craig Syracusa has learned, after thousands of celebrity interviews over nearly three decades, is that the most important story in almost every one of their lives is the one nobody in Hollywood will let them tell.