One Israeli traveler’s experience surviving the chaos at the airport.

Moscow wants to pressure Israel to stay out of its brutal war on Ukraine. That’s deplorable; still, Jerusalem and Jewish groups shouldn’t become full-fledged participants in that conflict.

“I was pouring out my soul to the LORD.”

In an act of pure Zionism called “the largest civil disobedience in years” thousands of Jews stake their nation’s claim to its own land. Tell me this isn’t a formidable act of combat in the realm of the Divine.

The Jewish state has given the United States invaluable intelligence and military expertise, and protects American interests in the Middle East.

Iran and Russia further bind their ties—one an authoritarian regime claiming Divine sanction, the other an authoritarian regime promoting nationalist chauvinism, both of them sworn enemies of Western democracy.

Even if there are moments of dryness in life, they have a purpose. They bring us to the next step in our faith.

Are we ready for the return of Israel’s Messiah? Because that’s the direction in which current events are moving, and moving fast.

A journalist’s visit to Mecca was wrong and may set back Israeli-Saudi normalization. But analogizing this stunt to Jews visiting or praying on the Temple Mount is equally offensive.