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.
Ministers, ambassadors, and top journalists headline Israel365’s Middle East Summit

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will share the stage with Amit Segal, Israel’s most-watched political analyst, in one of the marquee conversations of the second Middle East Summit, the first of several headline pairings planned for the July 9 event.
The CEO who kept the Sabbath and says it made him unstoppable

Every Friday for 25 years, no matter what was on his calendar, David Siegel left the office before sundown.
The rescue teams found them in a corner, still holding hands

On the morning of March 1, 2026, as Iranian ballistic missiles streaked toward central Israel, Ronit Elimelech did what she always did when sirens sounded: she made sure everyone else got out first.
You’ve read the Bible. But have you read it like this?

Eight out of ten Americans call themselves Bible believers. Fewer than half can name the first five books. Sixty percent cannot name even five of the Ten Commandments. And according to researchers who have tracked this for decades, it is getting worse every year.
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.