A few years ago, a woman from Switzerland sent us a request for prayer because her dog was lost. It was an unusual request, but I understood that people love their pets. I am sure we prayed the woman would find her dog. She had put up posters in her neighborhood. I also remember a
On a Saturday morning in 1983 during a European lecture tour, my father and I visited the large synagogue at Reichenbach Strasse 27 in Munich. The Haftarah passage from the prophets, which was read in synagogues worldwide on that Shabbat (Sabbath), included the following verses: “For a brief moment have I forsaken you, but with
When current US Vice President Kamala Harris met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in July, the meeting did not go well. Trying to rebrand herself as a strident candidate, Harris berated Netanyahu about Israel’s harsh military campaign in Gaza, the high casualty rate, and the widespread hunger. She is wrong on each point,
“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man” (Ps. 118:8). If, by the grace of God, you have lived nearly 100 years (94 to be exact), despite having survived Holocaust murders in your family, you have, unsurprisingly, experienced many important events. Some people will say, “That’s how it was
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isai. 5:20). In the spectrum of claims, counterclaims and outright lies regarding the war in Gaza, truth has become the first victim. Some things, however, we can
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