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.
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.