Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

A mother and her son, residents of Samaria, survived an attempted lynching last Thursday after accidentally driving into Jenin while on their way to meet friends in Afula. The mother told Israeli media that she only realized they had been routed into the city when dozens of Arabs surrounded their vehicle, tried to force the doors open, and hurled stones at the car. She managed to break free and kept driving until she reached an IDF force; neither she nor her son was injured, though their car was damaged. The IDF confirmed the two civilians had mistakenly entered the urban area of Jenin and were attacked by terrorists throwing stones, and that forces subsequently entered the city to arrest wanted suspects. The military repeated a warning it has issued many times before: entry into Area A is prohibited, dangerous for Israelis, and a violation of Israeli law.

Israel provided the intelligence that led the US Secret Service to secretly pull President Trump off Air Force One and smuggle him onto a different aircraft as he prepared to leave Turkey last month, The Wall Street Journal reported this week, citing an unnamed American official. The intelligence indicated Iran was developing a plan to use shoulder-fired missiles against the president's plane.

Rabbi Pinchas Winston sat down with host Aaron Sol on the Parsha Inspired podcast on August 10 to explain why the Third Temple isn't simply a more magnificent version of the first two, and why he thinks artificial intelligence, of all things, offers one of the clearest windows into what the Temple actually was.

A calf was born in a dairy barn in the Jordan Valley last week, and on Rosh Chodesh Elul, a delegation of rabbis stood over her, running their hands through her coat. She was the third heifer of her kind to be born in Israel this season, joining two others already under watch in the Galilee and the Golan Heights. Together, the three calves represent the most concrete progress yet toward a goal Jewish tradition has pursued since the destruction of the Second Temple: raising a red heifer whose ashes can restore ritual purity to the Jewish people.

For Jasper, the newly appointed global head of communications for the Yael Foundation, the encounter was not a curiosity. It was proof of the argument his organization has staked its entire mission on: Jewish identity is not primarily a matter of religious observance, and it is not primarily a defense against antisemitism. It is a peoplehood, and it can be planted, nurtured, and carried by anyone who has ever been given the chance to feel it.

The United States just recorded its hottest month in 132 years of measurement, and the scientific establishment is calling it a milestone of the climate crisis. The Hebrew Bible called it something else three thousand years ago: the predictable result of a nation's relationship with Heaven, described in language so specific it reads less like ancient poetry and more like a weather report.

The Ark of the Covenant remains one of the oldest open questions in Jewish tradition, and one with real stakes: Jewish sources tie the Ark's return directly to the Third Temple and to the return of prophecy itself. In a recent class, Talmudic scholar and Torah educator

For nearly two years, the world was told a simple story: Israel was starving Gaza. The United Nations declared famine. The Secretary-General called it a "living hell."Now the UN's own data has quietly dismantled the story it built.