Believe it or not, for the first time in our married life Elana and I do not own a car. So you might be wondering how we get around?...

Two of the most interesting days of the year come in late April-early May. Israel usually goes by the Gregorian calendar for much of her...

Christian and Nazis In Part 1, we talked about how Hitler and the Nazis tried to hijack Christianity and turn it into a new pagan...

As Russia doubles down with the egregious claim that “some of the worst antisemites are Jews,” it is a good time to see who is really...

Martin Luther is famous for two things primarily. 1. Reformation theology. 2. Rabid antisemitism later in life. This 1933 Nazi poster...

Passover ends tomorrow evening. Before we leave this feast, I wanted to share with you six secrets tucked away in the Seder. I know this...

Twenty percent of Israeli citizens are Arabs. But within the Arab community, there is a group called the Druze. While their religion is...

“Do you see anything?” those are the words from the God-man, Yeshua, to a man who was blind in Mark. Yeshua prays for him and then asks...

Dachau was the first concentration camp, constructed in 1933 and was in operation until the end of the war in 1945. Today, the camp is a...

Augustine and Eschatology (End Times) Augustine—along with modern-day theologians Gary Burge, John Stott, and C.E.B. Cranfield—does...

What is the impact of Augustine's Hermeneutical Jew? As stated in point 5 (in Part 1), Augustine's view saved a lot of Jewish lives. In...

Jeremy Cohen, who coined the term "Hermeneutical Jew," writes the following about Christian conceptions of the Jewish people: "The...

There are a lot of people today talking about Gog and Magog—The Ezekiel 38 attackers of Israel leading to an earthquake and miraculous...

"The 'parting of the ways' has in recent years become a standard model for describing the split between Judaism and Christianity" (Judith...

God’s name isn’t even mentioned in the book of Esther—but we can actually learn a LOT about God from the story of Purim! Enjoy this short...

A Closer Look at Ezra Nehemiah 8 is one of the most moving passages of Scripture. If the Hebrew Scriptures were a movie, that would be a...

The funeral experience in Israel is quite different than what I was used to in America. This is fresh on my mind because, sadly, we...

A Closer Look at Abraham Just over 30 years ago, as I was continuing my undergraduate studies in theology, I was taking a class with Dr. ...

When I first came to faith some 39 years ago, I had heard that David danced naked before the Lord as the Ark came into Jerusalem. But I...

A few years after I moved to Israel, I heard about an event called “Tzlichat HaKinneret.” Kinneret is how we say, “Sea of Galilee.” A...