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.
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.
Trump makes history: First U.S. president to call the nation to Shabbat
Donald Trump designated the period from sundown Friday, May 15, through nightfall Saturday, May 16, as a national Shabbat, dubbed “Shabbat 250”, in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence.
The Christian who sang Hatikvah
Ruben Ramos sang both the American National Anthem and Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, under an open Tennessee sky.
US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks: “We’re on the same side against Hezbollah”
The meeting between Israel’s Ambassador to the US and Lebanon’s Ambassador was framed by both sides not as a negotiation between enemies seeking recognition, but as a coordinated effort to confront a shared destabilizing force that has dominated the Israel-Lebanon border for decades.
Trump posts AI image depicting himself as Jesus while feuding with the Pope over Iran war
A historic public confrontation between the White House and the Vatican has erupted over the ongoing U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran, and this week it took a jarring turn.
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.
Iran’s secret revolution: the crown prince who says Christianity is exploding underground
Pahlavi walked onto the stage at Liberty University this week and told thousands of young American Christians something the Islamic Republic desperately does not want the world to know: the faith it has spent 46 years trying to eradicate is not dying in Iran.
“God is good”: the Easter Sunday miracle over Iran
When an injured U.S. Air Force colonel, bleeding and hunted by Iranian forces in the Zagros Mountains, finally made radio contact after 36 hours behind enemy lines, he said three words: “God is good.” Those three words nearly derailed his own rescue.
NPR flew to Lebanon to interview a synagogue terrorist’s family and never once called the synagogue
NPR is publicly funded. American taxpayers, including American Jews, pay for it. The children who fled that Michigan preschool in terror deserved to have their story told. Their parents deserved to be asked how they felt.