We took Isaiah 61 to Kenya, and 150 people walked free
Ten months ago, I traveled to Kenya to install three water wells for communities in desperate need. One of those wells went into the Bomet Prison. I didn’t know then how significant that visit would turn out to be.
You cannot make a deal with a regime that lies as a strategic weapon
“I want to believe that President Trump understands what I know to be true about the Islamic Republic: You can never negotiate with them. They will always lie and do anything to stay in power and maintain control over more than 90 million Iranians.”
Will the America First movement abandon Israel?
Charlie Kirk was worried. Privately, in conversations and in a letter he sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu roughly five months before he was killed, Kirk outlined what he saw coming: a younger generation of America First conservatives being systematically turned against Israel, and Israel doing almost nothing to stop it.
Woe to the judges who call evil good
The International Criminal Court presents itself as the world’s highest court of justice. Now imagine that one of its judges receives a private visit from an envoy of a wealthy and powerful nation. The message is simple: rule against our enemy, and we will make you a very rich man.
An American Shabbat
As we celebrate this national Shabbat together, we must also take pause and look at how America treats the Jews. There’s a dangerous and unprecedented increase in the permissiveness of widespread antisemitism, from Main St. to Sesame St., from Broadway to the boardrooms.
Israel was never meant to be a safe haven. It was meant to be a light unto the nations.
Rabbi Lavie believes that the current war has created a shift in Israel’s essential role, changing it from a post-Holocaust safe-haven and moving it towards its sacred purpose as a moral and spiritual leader of the nations.
A national Shabbat: Why all Americans should mark the 250th
However, if we are to truly honor the essence of the Sabbath and the spirit of this milestone, that celebration must extend its reach. This Sabbath should not just be a Jewish event; it should be a clarion call to non-Jews across the nation.
Call them what they are: blasphemers
On September 11, 2001, nineteen men boarded four commercial planes and murdered nearly three thousand people, believing men who claimed to speak for God, that they would be rewarded with paradise. That promise was not religion. It was blasphemy.
Living Between the Ceasefires
In Israel these days, there’s a shorthand in our speech and mannerisms that are just understood and can be discerned quickly, in under five seconds.
The message of Nachshon: the hero of the Splitting of the Sea
The lessons are clear. Those who are blessed with the necessary talent and fortitude to do what is necessary to help a fellow Jew, whether many people or an individual, must heed the call.