There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is. They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is. A nation this small should not be this strong. […]
Terrorists of the anti-Christian Islamist Boko Haram in Nigeria _ At the end of Shabbat recently, I drove to the Kotel (the Temple Prayer Wall). With me I had lists of people who had written us in the previous week asking for prayer. Returning to the car, I remarked to my son, Shimon: “There is […]
Our founders, Leah (96) and Dr. Herbert Hillel Goldberg (95), celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary–a biblical lifetime–on December 18. _ After surviving the horrors of the Shoah (Holocaust), Hillel and Leah Goldberg were married a decade later. Early on, they had organized and led humanitarian relief work among tens of thousands of European refugees in […]
US President Donald Trump, Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the Israeli Parliament on October 13, 2025. _ The Knesset (Israeli parliament) was abuzz with Scripture on October 13. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Leader of the Opposition Yair Lapid spoke, followed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and […]
Bleak reports about Israel warn of Israel’s isolation on the world stage. Michael Ordman, the prolific Israeli online publisher of Good News from Israel, has a different view. “Media claims that Israel is isolated can be disproved….Medical giant AstraZeneca is partnering Israeli startup Immunai to develop a treatment for IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). Israeli ultrasound […]
No Israelis allowed: Pro-Palestinian cheering at Aston Villa vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv football game, Birmingham, England, November 8, 2025. _ When I was nine in Birmingham, England, my chums and I used to march around the schoolyard during breaks and cheer for our favorite football teams, Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion. Sixty years later, […]
By any measure, it was an astonishing sight: The Israeli attacks on Iran had just begun on June 13 and the six Israeli Channel 12 co-anchors interrupted their non-stop TV news reportage…for prayer. One of them, a black kippah on his head, spoke a prayer for the safety of Israel–its leaders, soldiers and all its […]
“No intifada in our city! – Stop hating on our street!” Christians supporting Israel in Sweden _ Letters have reached us in recent months from Christian friends telling about their participation in peaceful demonstrations supporting Israel, each in their own community. While others condemn Israel and the Jews, these Christians, as a matter of faith, […]
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who present darkness for light and light for darkness; bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” (Isai. 5:20). “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both are an abomination to the LORD” (Prov. 17:15). For almost 50 years, neighboring countries have […]
Hamas steals food supplies in Gaza _ “Newspapers lie.” Those were my grandfather Shaul Nissan Goldberg’s words. The Nazis murdered him 86 years ago, but he would have been even more right today, for his words apply not only to newspapers. · Pictures of emaciated children suffering from genetic diseases are mislabeled as “starving Gazan […]