I called the Jewish establishment. They were busy.
In the spring of 2023, Jews were being murdered in Judea and Samaria, week after week, and I had one question for American Jewish organizations: What are we doing about this? Their answer: “We’re busy. We have a lot of priorities.”
Your daily window into Israel, straight from a rabbi on the ground
How Rabbi Rami Goldberg turned a WhatsApp group into a congregation of 600, and why people keep coming back for the prayers, not just the content.
He grew up in a Jewish bubble. A parking lot conversation changed everything.
What Rabbi Tuly Weisz did not know, what he had never thought to ask, was what was happening in the more than one thousand churches across the same city. The answer, when he finally discovered it, stopped him in his tracks.
A cure for the “slandering Zionism epidemic”
A friend asked me to recommend one book that explains why someone should be a Zionist. No one in our time is going to become a Zionist by reading Herzl, so the question is an important one as Zionism is increasingly misunderstood.
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki never planned to be a geopolitical analyst
If you follow news about Israel, you almost certainly know who Rabbi Pesach Wolicki is. What you may not know is that Rabbi Wolicki is, at heart, a Torah teacher.
Remember and honor: stories from Israel’s Memorial Day
Every year on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, the entire country stops. A siren wails for one full minute, traffic halts, conversations pause, and a nation stands at attention for its fallen. This year, Israel365 brought that moment to hundreds of supporters around the world.
The Christian who sang Hatikvah
Ruben Ramos sang both the American National Anthem and Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, under an open Tennessee sky.
Two sirens. One week. This is what they mean.
This Sunday, April 19, the evening before Yom HaZikaron begins, Israel365 is hosting a live prayer and remembrance event for believers who love Israel, called Remember and Honor.
What I told a room full of American combat veterans in Jerusalem
A few years ago, at Ramat Rachel, a beautiful kibbutz on the southern edge of Jerusalem, the kind of place that seems almost designed for healing, I sat with a group of American combat veterans, men and women who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The war with Iran is over. For orphans in Israel, the fear isn’t.
The missiles Iran fired at Israel are not an abstraction to the children at Alumim Children’s Home in Kfar Chabad. They are a memory. The ceasefire came. The fear didn’t leave with it.