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When you read about Israel’s “New Esthers,” female fighter pilots in the Israeli Air Force, including mothers with babies at home, flying into danger to destroy the missile launchers, stockpiles, and drones meant to rain down on Israeli homes, it stops you cold.

From supportive coverage to skeptical framing, this week’s headlines show that the fight for Israel is also a fight for truth in the media.

As Israel confronts Iran in war, Scripture warns that when evil is removed but not replaced, something worse can emerge. A call for modern-day Esthers to fast, pray, and seek lasting peace.

Only God could write timing like this. As Purim begins, a modern-day Haman, sitting in power and certain he could continue threatening Israel indefinitely, was taken out in the days leading up to this feast. Not on our calendar. On God’s.

For nearly 2,000 years, an ancient road lay buried beneath Jerusalem. In 2026, it reopened, not as a symbol, but as proof. Meet Dr. Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, the archaeologist whose quiet courage helped uncover a living testimony to Jewish history in the heart of the Holy City.

The word Zion (Hebrew Tzion, pronounced tzee-YOHN) appears more than one hundred and fifty times in the Bible. It is used for fortress, monument, the City of David, the City of God, and Jerusalem itself. Across the centuries, Zion has carried deep spiritual meaning, representing God’s promises and His enduring covenant with the Jewish people.

Church leaders in Jerusalem recently condemned Christian Zionism, sparking debate across the Christian world. As Zionism is attacked from both extremes, this commentary asks a deeper question: Was Jesus a Zionist — and what does Scripture actually say?

The word Nazi did not come from rhetoric. It came from history. It names a real regime that used law, propaganda, and bureaucracy to strip Jews of personhood and carry out mass murder. When that word is used casually, detached from what it actually describes, we lose the moral language needed to recognize real evil when it appears.

When a car rammed into a Chabad house in New York, fear spread quickly. Avoiding calling it a hate crime was the safer option. Jessica chose something else. Her decision to speak plainly in the aftermath of the attack offers a powerful reminder of what courage looks like in 2026, when Jewish life is once again being tested in public spaces.

As the U.S. builds a coalition to confront Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the world is facing a familiar moral test. This week honoring, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the contrast is haunting: the U.N. commemorates “dignity and human rights” while Iran’s Islamic regime crushes its own people and fuels terror abroad. This is a call to vigilance, prayer, and courage, for Israel, for Iranians under oppression, and for leaders carrying decisions that will shape history.

The recovery of the body of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza, should have brought only grief and closure. Instead, it revealed a disturbing truth: his body had been deliberately buried in a Muslim cemetery. This act fits a long pattern of Hamas exploiting sacred sites for military and propaganda purposes.

As Israel faces mounting threats from Iran, relentless diplomatic pressure, cultural distortion, and rising antisemitism, Scripture offers a different lens. Drawing from the story of David and Goliath, this cultural commentary explores the five smooth stones Israel carries today: truth, moral clarity, restraint, memory, and God-confidence. In a moment crowded with accusations and noise, it calls Christian Women for Israel to remember who stands in the midst of the battle and to stand faithfully with Israel for such a time as this.

She was four years old when she learned how to stay silent so she would not be killed. Five when she was given a number instead of her name. And one of the last child survivors to walk out of Auschwitz alive. This week’s Esther of the Week is Tova Friedman. Her story is not history in a textbook. It is memory carried in a living voice, and a warning she believes the next generation must hear. Read why she still speaks, and why forgetting is never neutral.

In April 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower walked into a Nazi camp and refused to rely on reports. He wanted eyewitness truth, documented so thoroughly that future denial would have nowhere to hide.

At the Jewish National Fund breakfast, Judge Roy Altman did not offer talking points. He offered testimony. He spoke of law and history, yes, but also of something deeper: the shared Judeo-Christian roots that make Christian support for Israel more than politics. It is family.