Features
My Brother’s Keeper?
On September 26, 1997, Russian President Boris Yeltsin brought the curtain back down. With a single sweep of his pen, he consorted with the darkest elements in Russian society to snuff the lamp of religious freedom that had flickered tenuously since the...
The Temple in the First Century
“He who has not seen Herod’s Temple has never seen a beautiful building.” With those deliberately exaggerated words, rabbis extolled the magnificence of the Temple that was in Jerusalem during the first century A.D. Although the religious Jews often despised...
Time for a Temple?
The most volatile 35 acres on earth are undoubtedly those comprising a rectangular platform in East Jerusalem on which the ancient Jewish Temple once stood. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament affirm that a new Temple will once again occupy...
Mystery Babylon
Revelation 17:1–7: Lying silently in the shifting sands of time, Babylon is destined to rise from the ashes of the past to play a major role in end-time events. The name Babylon brings to mind incredible images of a wicked city-state with an abominable...
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ Part One
Historically, some people and groups have denied that Christ came in human flesh. For example, some said that the Christ came temporarily upon an already existing man, Jesus of Nazareth. He came long enough to impart a secret body of knowledge...
More In This Issue
Zionism: One Hundred Years and Counting
Most of us hardly noticed that Israel was having a birthday. No, I’m not talking about its upcoming 50th, which will be celebrated in 1998. It was in August 1897 that a group of Jewish representatives in silk hats and frock coats filed into a hall in Basel, Switzerland, to hear...
Uncovering Our Roots: The Pale Of Settlement
An understanding of our family background—how our ancestors lived and how they came to the United States from their countries of origin—satisfies a curiosity in many of us. For myself and other Jewish people with Eastern European ancestry, tracing our roots can...
Eye on the Middle East Dec/Jan 1997/1998
After the tragic suicide bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem last September, Yasser Arafat was adamant. The bombers, he insisted, came from abroad; thus, he had no control over the invaders. As a matter of fact, the problem, he claimed, was with...
Israel in the News Dec/Jan 1997/1998
Hundreds of urns filled with human ashes that were discovered at the former Buchenwald concentration camp were buried [recently] at a mountain cemetery.
The 701 metal urns were found May 7 by carpenters working on the roof of...
Zvi Dec/Jan 1997/1998
For a long time, the debate in Israel about “Who is a proper Jew?” was quiet. Now, in recent months, it has begun to rage again. Every religious group is trying to make proselytes to their form of Judaism and have people follow their...
Daily News from Israel
News Digest — 5/22/25
Two staff members of Israel’s Embassy in Washington D.C. were shot dead outside the city’s Jewish Museum late on Wednesday evening (21st)...
News Digest — 5/21/25
IDF Chief of Staff LG Eyal Zamir conducted a situational assessment in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday (20th), after which he called on...
Is Israel Taking Gaza’s Food?!
Since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza War, there have been reports of famine conditions in Gaza, although Israel and other...
Israel at War: Week 84
The Special Envoy to Israel, Steven Witkoff, needs to listen to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s aim for the Israel-Hamas War...
News Digest — 5/20/25
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said the Trump administration remains determined to see Hamas defeated, prevent Iran from...
News Digest — 5/19/25
The Israeli Air Force launched a series of extensive strikes in Khan Younis Monday morning (19th), according to reports from Gaza...
News Digest — 5/16/25
The IDF struck Hamas targets in Gaza overnight on Thursday (15th) and into the early morning hours on Friday (16th)...
News Digest — 5/15/25
Israeli politicians reacted to the terrorist attack that killed Tzeela Gez on her way to give birth to her fourth child on Wednesday night...