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Jan 25, 2023, 6:42 PM

Why Christians care about Israel’s Supreme Court

There are three Biblical reasons American Christians support their beloved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push for judicial reform and will continue even more firmly in standing up in defense of Israel’s government. Since moving to Israel eleven years ago, I...

Jan 23, 2023, 11:12 PM

Israel Will Have to Change

When I first visited Israel in 1967, it was a different place. The Six Day War had just been won, and the military threat posed by our Arab neighbours that could so easily have destroyed our country turned almost...

Jan 22, 2023, 3:53 PM

On chosenness, Zionism, and Religious Zionist theology

TOPSHOT - Israel's President Isaac Herzog (front R); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front L); Minister of Science and Technology Ofir Akunis (2nd row R); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Yariv Levin (2nd row 2nd-R); Defence Minister Yoav Galant (2nd row C); Minister of Health and Minister of the Interior and Periphery Aryeh Deri (2nd row 2nd-L); Minister of Transportation Miri Regev (2nd row L); Minister of Environment Protection Idit Silman (3rd row R); Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (3rd row 2nd-R); Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir (3rd row 2nd-L); Minister of National Missions Orit Strook (3rd row L); Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Israel Katz (4th row R); Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer (4th row 2nd-R); Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services Yaakov Margi (4th row C); Minister of Housing and Construction Yitzhak Goldknopf (4th row 2nd-L); and Minister of Culture and Sport Miki Zohar (4th row L) pose with other ministers of Israel's 37th government to have their group picture taken with the president and prime minister at the President's residence in Jerusalem on December 29, 2022. - Israel's hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister on December 29 after a stint in opposition, heading what analysts call the most right-wing government in the country's history. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

״לכן אמר לבני ישראל אני ה׳ והוצאתי אתכם מתחת סבלת מצרים והצלתי אתכם מעבדתם וגאלתי אתכם בזרוע נטויה ובשפטים גדלים. ולקחתי אתכם לי לעם והייתי לכם לאלקים וידעתם כי אני ה׳ אלקיכם המוציא אתכם מתחת סבלות מצרים. והבאתי אתכם...

Jan 19, 2023, 1:55 PM

The religious Zionist community has some soul-searching to do

MK Bezalel Smotrich, center, waves an Israeli flag during the annual 'Flags March' next to Damascus gate, outside Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean/ File)

We need to set aside the messianism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia in favor of a Jewish statehood that is rooted in Jewish identity yet suited to the modern world

Jan 10, 2023, 2:14 PM

Chillul Hashem: Blasphemy in Jerusalem

2022, December 29, Ron Kronish at demonstration against the new government in Israel with Tag Meir poster. courtesy of Ron Kronish

During the last ten days, I have already participated in two protest demonstrations in light of the rise of neo-fascism in Israel. The first one took place on Thursday, December 29, 2022, opposite the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), with thousands...

Jan 3, 2023, 8:42 PM

A Prophetic Bus Ride Reprieve

I wonder if Eliyahu the prophet felt this good when he got fired. I wonder if, when he didn’t hear God in the wind or the earthquake or the fire on top of that mountain, he also got buzzed on...

Jan 3, 2023, 5:03 PM

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Israeli Government

Now is not the beginning of the end of Israeli democracy, as many “pundits” say, but the end of the beginning of a more nationalistic Israel (a good thing). According to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, the government’s four main...

Dec 28, 2022, 2:38 PM

The Dark Side of Religion

The latest outrage from one of the minority parties in Netanyahu’s government comes from the members of the Religious Zionism party who are poised to become far more powerful as soon as the new prime minister is sworn in....

James M. Dorsey

Dec 24, 2022, 2:09 PM

Changing paradigms: Israel’s far-right meets Christian nationalists

Please click here to watch a video version of this story on YouTube. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s far-right, Jewish nationalist, ultra-conservative coalition government threatens to put the Jewish state on a collision course with...

Nov 20, 2022, 2:57 PM

When the Israeli political parties that run together don’t serve together

As a combined faction, the 3 parties of Religious Zionism handily passed the electoral threshold, but their split once elected, though legal, seems wrong

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