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The Bible is thoroughly Jewish! Join hosts Chris Katulka (the gentile dude) and Steve Herzig (the Jewish sage) as they unpack the Scriptures from a Jewish perspective, look at current events surrounding Israel and the Jewish people, and explain some fun Jewish culture and customs. Oy! You‘ll even learn some Yiddish words. The Jew and Gentile Podcast is a ministry of FOI Equip, an outreach of North American Ministries and The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry. The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry is a worldwide evangelical ministry proclaiming biblical truth about Israel and the Messiah, while bringing physical and spiritual comfort to the Jewish people. (www.foi.org)

Episodes

Hostages Come Home, Your Word Is a Lamp in a Dark World, Jewish Brisket, and A glick hot dich getrofen (Episode #219)

Thursday Oct 16, 2025

Thursday Oct 16, 2025

🎙️ Jew and Gentile Podcast

Episode Title: God’s Word: A Lamp in a Dark World
 Hosts: Chris Katulka & Steve Herzig
 Date: Week of October 16, 2025

🕯️ Opening Thoughts

Chris:
All living Israeli hostages are home, but many of the deceased still haven’t been returned by Hamas — and that should weigh on all of us. Israel continues to live with the reality of evil nearby and moral confusion worldwide. Even Hitler knew when the war was over — but Hamas, even surrounded, can’t release its grip on Gaza. The world is watching, and Israel still stands.

✡️ Tikvah Team Spotlight

One of our Tikvah volunteers, a public school teacher in New Jersey, is courageously raising awareness about the NJEA magazine editor’s pro-Palestinian activism. Her work has drawn serious attention—Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) has even called for the editor’s removal after antisemitic, violent posts came to light.
 [Read more: https://newjerseyglobe.com/education/gottheimer-calls-for-firing-of-njea-magazine-editor-after-alleged-anti-semitic-violent-posts/]

Chris:
 This is what courage looks like—standing for truth where God has placed you.

💬 Sticker Story

Chris: “My niece sells antiques online and got an order from Haifa, Israel. She slipped a few FOI ‘I Stand With Israel’ stickers in the box. That’s making the most of every opportunity.”

Colossians 4:5 — “Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.”

🕎 Psalm 119 Reflection – NUN (vv.105–112)

Theme: God’s Word Guides, Guards, and Grounds Us

Guides (105–106):

  • Provides direction — “Your word is a lamp to my feet.”

  • Demands obedience — “I have sworn and confirmed…”

Guards (107–110):

  • Revives the afflicted

  • Directs us to pray

  • Keeps us from straying

Grounds (111–112):

  • Our heritage forever (Deut. 33:4)

  • Produces rejoicing

  • Leads to heartfelt obedience

🔰 Psalm 119 – SAMEK (vv.113–120)

Theme: Faith in the Midst of Enemies

  • Rejection of Evil (113–115): Hate double-mindedness, love God’s law.

  • Reliance on the Word (116–119): Find refuge and hope in God’s promises.

  • Request for Mercy (120): Tremble before God’s judgments; depend on His compassion.

Takeaway: People of faith will face opposition, but God’s Word gives direction, strength, and courage.

🗞️ News Round-Up

  • Europe’s Unease: Politico reports that Europe may not be as impressed with the new peace deal as public statements suggest.
     https://apple.news/AQQfjzL3mS8KJNjifAxAzNQ

  • Inside Israel: Activist Rudy Rochman shares updates from the ground — https://youtu.be/BEi0nzzprdw

  • Knesset Disruption: Arab-Israeli lawmakers Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif protest President Trump’s speech, holding illegal signs calling for recognition of a Palestinian state.
     (Context: Knesset rules forbid such displays in the plenum.)

💬 Yiddish Phrase of the Day

“A glick hot dich getrofen!” – literally “A piece of luck hit you!” but used sarcastically: “Big deal!”

Steve:
 Perfect for when someone says, “I found the deal of the century,” and you reply—“A glick hot dich getrofen!”

📚 Closing Thoughts

In a world filled with confusion, propaganda, and fear, the believer’s compass remains steady:

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” – Psalm 119:105

Equip yourself with Scripture.
 Stand with Israel.
 Shine the Light.

 

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)

“Oh Chris, we need Equip more than ever, because we need the Word of God more than ever.”

Upcoming FOI Equip Classes:

  • Navigating the Kingdom of God – Dr. Andy Wood | November 6, 13, 20

  • What Child Is This – The Hope of Israel (Isaiah 9:6) – Gabe Penfield | December 11

📲 Register now at: https://www.foiequip.org

📬 Connect With Us:
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Global Prayer for Israel, Gospel Golf Balls, The More I See You, Honeymooners, and Zis (Episode #218)

Wednesday Oct 08, 2025

Wednesday Oct 08, 2025

🎙️ Jew and Gentile Podcast

Episode Title: Global Prayer for Israel, Gospel Golf Balls, The More I See You, Honeymooners, and Zis (Episode #218) 
 Release Date: Thursday, October 9

🗞️ Cultural Moment

“The Honeymooners” Turns 70!
 This week marks 70 years since The Honeymooners debuted on October 1, 1955 — the iconic Brooklyn-based sitcom starring Jackie Gleason. Seven decades later, the show’s humor and heart still remind us of simpler times and timeless relationships.
 Read more: https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/us-news/the-honeymooners-and-jackie-gleason-remembered-fondly-70-years-after-iconic-brooklyn-based-sitcoms-debut/

🕊️ Two Years Later: October 7

Steve and Chris remember October 7th, 2023

🕍 FOI Equip Highlight

Gospel Golf Balls – creative outreach in motion ⛳️

🎵 Music Break

“The More I See You” — written by Harry Warren (1945), sung by legends like Nat King Cole, Nancy Sinatra, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Michael Bublé.

“The more I see You, the more I want You…”

Just like our relationship with God — the more we read His Word, the more we know Him, love Him, and desire to walk with Him.

📖 Teaching Segment — Psalm 119:97–104 (Mem)

“Oh, how I love Your law!”
 A personal confession, a present-tense testimony.

Throughout each day, the psalmist intentionally applies God’s Word to his life.

Key truths from the passage:

  • Wiser than your enemies (v.98)

  • Wiser than your teachers (v.99)

  • Wiser than your elders (v.100)

God’s Word keeps you:

  • Off the wrong path (v.101)

  • On the right path (v.102)

  • Filled with joy and sweetness (v.103)

“How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”
 “Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.” (v.104)

🌍 News from Israel

Global Prayer for Israel – believers around the world uniting in intercession.
 Read more: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-869579

NY Post coverage: https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-chant-antisemitic-slogan-in-nyc-on-two-year-anniversary-of-hamas-oct-7-attack/

Times of Israel update on hostages: https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-families-demand-explanation-after-pm-says-46-are-held-in-gaza-instead-of-48/

Tunnel Vision – Eli Sharabi’s story (Jewish Review of Books): https://jewishreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/tunnel-vision

 

🧩 Yiddish Word of the Day

Zis (זיס) — Sweet! 🍯
 God’s Word is Zis! Taste and see the Zeeskeit (sweetness) of His truth.

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
 Two powerful upcoming FOI Equip classes:

  1. “Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7

  • A powerful update on the events of October 7, 2023, from someone who lived it.

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📬 Connect With Us:
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Trump's 21-Point Peace Plan, Adonai Mitchell, October 7th Portraits, Settled in Heaven, and Shvitzer (Episode #217)

Wednesday Oct 01, 2025

Wednesday Oct 01, 2025

🎙️ Jew and Gentile Podcast – What Is a Jew to Do?

Main Story

Feature Video

  • Pastor Neil shares a powerful video on Israel’s undeniable connection to the land.
    • https://youtu.be/Ek1WPNG-HEw

Reported “21-Point” Plan for Israel-Gaza Peace 

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/12McxyDmmWVNxsREUlXv28rjaxfFHG0pTD-6YI5d5QOQ/edit?usp=sharing

 

Psalm 119:89–96 Reflection

  • Aleph, Bet, Gimel… through Lamed — God’s Word is eternal.

  • Verses 89–91: His Word is settled, unchangeable, reliable, enduring.

  • Verses 92–95: His Word delights, preserves, gives life, exposes our need for salvation.

  • Verse 96: Human perfection has limits, but God’s Law is limitless. “Thy commandment is exceeding broad.”

News Highlights

Yiddish Word of the Day

  • Shvitzer (שװיצער) – Someone who brags and boasts excessively.
     Example: After Adonai Mitchell’s dropped pass, you might say, “He was a shvitzer before he even got into the end zone.”

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
 Two powerful upcoming FOI Equip classes:

  1. “Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7

  • A powerful update on the events of October 7, 2023, from someone who lived it.

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📬 Connect With Us:
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Blowing the Shofar, Rosh Hashanah, Dr. Stallard, Italy and Israel, and Teshuvah/Tefilah/Tzedakah (Episode #216)

Wednesday Sep 24, 2025

Wednesday Sep 24, 2025

🎙 Jew and Gentile Podcast Notes

Episode Theme: Happy New Year 5786 – Rosh Hashanah

Opening

  • Welcome listeners – Shanah Tovah! Happy Jewish New Year 5786.

  • Reflect on the significance of Rosh Hashanah: prayer, community, repentance, reflection.

Rosh Hashanah Focus

  • Trump’s Message:


     “Warmest greetings … recommitment to religious liberty, ending anti-Semitism, building a future of peace.”


    • Highlights: Religious liberty, fighting antisemitism, dignity of every soul.
    •  
  • Israel My Channel on Rosh Hashanah
  • Traditional Greeting in Israel:
     “Tikle shanah v’klaloteha, tachel shanah v’berchoteha”
     → “May the year and its curses end; may the new year and its blessings begin.”

  • Customs:

    • Sounding of the shofar

    • Apples and honey for a sweet year

    • Rosh Hashanah = “Head of the Year”

    • Themes: Forgiveness, reflection, renewal

  • Ten Days of Awe leading to Yom Kippur

    • Genesis 22 (Akedah) – the binding of Isaac

    • Three actions that change the decree: Teshuvah (repentance), Tefilah (prayer), Tzedakah (charity/good deeds)

    • Sealed in the “Books” on Yom Kippur → Greeting: “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.”

Scripture Meditation

  • Psalm 119: Kaph (v. 81–88)

    • v.81: “My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your Word.”
       → Expectation and trust in God’s promises.

    • v.87: “They persecute me wrongfully; help me.”
       → Persecution of Jews & Christians = hatred of God Himself.

News Roundup

Wrap-Up

  • Call to remember: Rosh Hashanah isn’t just about reflection—it points us to God’s plan of redemption and the hope found in Messiah.

  • Wish listeners: “Shanah Tovah U’Metukah – A good and sweet new year.”

 

Yiddish Word of the Day

  • Three actions that change the decree: Teshuvah (repentance), Tefilah (prayer), Tzedakah (charity/good deeds)

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
 Two powerful upcoming FOI Equip classes:

  1. “Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7

  • A powerful update on the events of October 7, 2023, from someone who lived it.

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📬 Connect With Us:
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Wrestling with the Goodness of God, Pilgrimage Road, Infected and Rachmones (Episode #215)

Wednesday Sep 17, 2025

Wednesday Sep 17, 2025

🎙️ Jew and Gentile Podcast Notes

Opening Scripture

  • Romans 12:17–18

    • “Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.”

  • If someone says they have no enemies—be careful.

    • If you stand for Christ, you will have enemies.

    • FOI has enemies. Equip has enemies. We’ve encountered them—they comment on our feeds.

  • Response:

    • Romans 12:21 — “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

Review from Last Week

  • The goodness of God – Psalm 119:65–72 (Teth).

  • “God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.”

Wrestling with God’s Goodness

  • For centuries, people have asked: If God is good, why do bad things happen?

  • Cleveland Plain Dealer (Terry Pluto’s faith column):

    • Jewish survivor’s child: “I cannot believe in God. Four grandparents murdered in the Holocaust. Where was God?”

    • Another writer: “God takes everything good away—my loved one, my mother’s health, my stepfather’s mind.”

  • Harold Kushner – When Bad Things Happen to Good People

    • Son Aaron with progeria (rare aging disease, 14-year life expectancy).

  • Theodicy

    • From theos (God) + dike (justice).

    • How do we reconcile a good, powerful God with the reality of suffering?

  • Jesus: “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.” (Mark 10:18)

Psalm 119:73–80 (Yod)

  • v73 “Your hands made me” → asking for discernment to learn His commandments.

  • v74 The fear of the Lord brings gladness.

  • Fear of the Lord Scriptures:

    • Prov 9:10 – beginning of wisdom.

    • Eccl 12:13 – whole duty of man.

    • Ps 111:10 – understanding comes from practicing fear of the Lord.

    • Prov 14:27 – fountain of life.

    • Mal 3:16 – book of remembrance for those who fear Him.

    • 2 Cor 7:1 – holiness completed in the fear of God.

  • True “fear” = reverence, awe, standing in wonder before Him.

  • v75 Affliction comes from God’s faithfulness—discipline, growth, deeper walk.

  • v76–77 Mercy as comfort (“raham” = womb-like compassion).

  • Supporting verses:

    • Ps 117:2 – merciful kindness.

    • Eph 2:4–5 – God rich in mercy.

    • Ex 34:6 – merciful and gracious.

News & Current Events 📰

Yiddish Word of the Day

  • Rachmones (רחמנות) – mercy, compassion, forgiveness, empathy.

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
 Two powerful upcoming FOI Equip classes:

  1. Isaiah 53 with Dr. Will Varner – September 11 & 18

  • A deep dive into the suffering servant through a Jewish lens.

“Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7
  • A powerful update on the events of October 7, 2023, from someone who lived it.

📲 Register now at: https://www.foiequip.org

📬 Connect With Us:
 Got a funny story? A ministry question? Want to claim your spot as the real 8th Listener?
 Email us or message on social — we’d love to hear from you.

🎧 Subscribe & Share:
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📚 Learn more with FOI Equip
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Charlie Kirk, Philly Baseball, Rights from God or Government, and A Chazir Bleibit Chazir (Episode #214)

Thursday Sep 11, 2025

Thursday Sep 11, 2025

🎙 Jew & Gentile Podcast Notes

👋 Charlie Kirk, Philly Baseball, Rights from God or Government, and A Chazir Bleibit Chazir (Episode #214)

💬 Conversation Topic

📖 Psalm 119 Series

  • Completed: Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, He, Vav, Zayin, Chet.

  • Now: Teth (vv. 65–72).

  • Theme: What is good in the life of a believer? 🌿

    • Hebrew: Tov (good) appears six times.

    • Verses:

      • v. 65 – “You have dealt well (tov) with Your servant.” 🙌

      • v. 66 – “Teach me good judgment.” 📖

      • v. 68 – “You are good and do good.” ✨

      • v. 71 – “It is good for me that I have been afflicted.” 🕊

      • v. 72 – “The law of Your mouth is better (tov) to me.” 💎

  • God alone is truly good (Luke 18:19; 1 John 1:5).

  • Cross references:

    • 📖 Psalm 100:5, Psalm 107:1, Psalm 34:8.

    • 📖 Romans 7:12, James 1:17.

  • Gospel = Good News (Tov Meod – very good). ✝️✨

📰 News Roundup

🗣 Yiddish Word of the Day

  •  

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
 Two powerful upcoming FOI Equip classes:

  1. Isaiah 53 with Dr. Will Varner – September 11 & 18

  • A deep dive into the suffering servant through a Jewish lens.

“Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7
  • A powerful update on the events of October 7, 2023, from someone who lived it.

📲 Register now at: https://www.foiequip.org

📬 Connect With Us:
 Got a funny story? A ministry question? Want to claim your spot as the real 8th Listener?
 Email us or message on social — we’d love to hear from you.

🎧 Subscribe & Share:
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🔗 Subscribe to the Jew & Gentile Podcast
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 🌐 https://jewandgentile.org

📚 Learn more with FOI Equip
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 🌐 https://foiequip.org

☕ MUG-ON-A-MUG

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Your donation supports FOI Equip’s mission to teach the Bible from a Jewish perspective and raise up new FOI representatives and volunteers ministering in Jewish communities worldwide.

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Round Challah, Red Paint, Remembering God’s Word, and Yutz (Episode #213)

Wednesday Sep 03, 2025

Wednesday Sep 03, 2025

🎙️ Round Challah, Red Paint, Remembering God’s Word, and Yutz (Episode #213)

Opening

  • Chris gets caught off guard by Pastor Neil’s surprise video call.

  • Banter and fun before diving into today’s topics.

Special Feature

  • Chris appears on Stand in the Gap (Lighthouse TV).

🕍 Two Synagogues, Two Opinions

Discussion on the Torah scroll incidents in NYC synagogues.
 🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-congregations-two-opinions-as-torahs-hit-the-floor-at-separate-nyc-synagogues/

📚 Sponsor: FOI Equip

Don’t miss the fall Equip class:
 Isaiah 53: Could This Be Jesus? with Dr. Will Varner
 🗓️ September 11 & 18
 👉 https://www.foi.org/equip

✡️ Psalm 119 Study – Zayin & Chet

Zayin (vv. 49–56)

  • Remember God’s judgments of old (v.52), His name at night (v.55), His Word (Deut. 4:1–14).

  • Comfort in affliction—“Your word has given me life” (v.50).

  • Statutes are songs in the night (v.55).

  • Kept God’s law and precepts (vv.55–56).

Chet (vv. 57–64)

  • Mercy according to God’s Word (v.58).

  • Keep God’s Word and precepts (vv.57, 63).

  • Turned (Hebrew shoob)—to turn back, return (v.59).

  • The whole earth is full of His mercy (v.64).

🍯 Rosh Hashanah Preview

🗓️ Begins Monday evening, Sept 22 – Wednesday, Sept 24.
 Why do we eat round challah on Rosh Hashanah?
 🔗 https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/article-865577?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

📰 News Roundup

🤦 Yutz of the Week

  • Definition: “Stupid, unthinking, or socially inept person.”

  • Example: The terrorist who gave himself away with a selfie.

  • Chris’s fear: yutzes on bikes who think they’re invincible in traffic.



📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
 Two powerful upcoming FOI Equip classes:

  1. Isaiah 53 with Dr. Will Varner – September 11 & 18

  • A deep dive into the suffering servant through a Jewish lens.

“Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7
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The 7 Have Spoken: Let’s Dance! City of David Speaks, Hope in Gaza, Unashamed - Psalm 119, and Pintele Yid (Episode #211)

Thursday Aug 21, 2025

Thursday Aug 21, 2025

🎙️ Jew and Gentile Podcast Show Notes

🎧 The 7 Have Spoken: Let’s Dance! City of David Speaks, Hope in Gaza, Unashamed - Psalm 119, and Pintele Yid 

  • The 7 have spoken!
     We asked if listeners liked us dancing to Havenu Shalom during the opening — and our seven loyal fans gave a resounding yes.

    • Chris: “The seven have spoken!” (cue David Bowie’s Let’s Dance)

🔥 Encouraging Update from Gaza

📚 Book Talk: When the Stones Speak

  • Steve is reading When the Stones Speak — a deep archaeological and spiritual journey into the City of David.

  • Key takeaways:

    • Proof of Jewish roots in the land long before Islam

    • Baron Rothschild's land ownership photo

    • Warren’s Shaft

    • Pilgrimage Road to the Temple Mount

    • Page 158: Prutah coins minted 66–70 AD – “an email from 2,000 years ago”

    • Drainage tunnel under the road

  • Reinforces the Jewish claim to the land and silences revisionist narratives.

  • Highlight from Jewish thought: Pintele Yid – the Jewish Spark (p. 147)

📖 Scripture Focus: Psalm 119

🔤 HEY (vv. 33–40)

  • v.33 – Teach me Your way
     (What do you do when you find He is the way?)

  • v.34 – Give me understanding to obey with my whole heart

  • v.36 – Incline my heart to Your testimonies, not covetousness

  • v.37 – Turn my eyes from worthless things

  • v.37 – Revive me in Your way

  • v.40 – Revive me in Your righteousness

✡️ VAV (vv. 41–48)

  • v.41 – Salvation comes from Your Word

  • v.42 – Why trust it? Because it's true

  • v.43 – Don’t take the Word of truth out of my mouth

  • v.45 – Walk in liberty – but how do we balance freedom and obedience?

  • v.46 – I will speak of Your testimonies and not be ashamed

    • Romans 1:16 – “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel…”

🗞️ Headlines & Hot Takes

  1. Jew-Hating Crowd Silenced by Truth About Hamas

Christian Revival Among Young Adults in the UK

 500,000 Israelis Protest for Hostage Release

 Gaza’s Food Prices Drop Despite War

🗣️ Yiddish Word of the Day

  • Pintele Yid (פּינטעלע ייִד) – The Jewish Spark

    • This deeply meaningful Yiddish phrase refers to the tiny, indestructible spark of Jewish identity that exists in every Jewish soul, no matter how hidden.

    • Highlighted on page 147 of When the Stones Speak, it captures the resilience of Jewish faith and identity, especially in the Land of Israel.

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
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“Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7
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Heat Waves in Israel, Holy Mall Revival, Human Compost, Psalm Dust, and Shmutz (Episode #210)

Wednesday Aug 13, 2025

Wednesday Aug 13, 2025

🎧 Episode Rundown: Dancing Intros, Psalm Dust, & Pierogi Politics

👋 Opening Chat

  • Chris: “How are you?”

  • Steve: “I’m betwixt—caught between our classic intro and the new dancing one.” 🕺💃

  • Listener feedback is in: someone’s not feeling the dance moves.

  • Let's decide together! Text your vote to 424-444-1948 — keep the OG intro or the boogie version?

🕍 Antisemitism Alert
 📢 Article: JPost - Antisemitism on the Rise
 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-863795?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

  • Shocking new data and headlines from the Jewish world.

  • What does this mean for Christians who stand with Israel?

🔥 Heatwave Hits the Holy Land
 🌡️ Article: JPost - Record Temps
 https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-863747?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

  • The Middle East is heating up—literally.

  • Environmental shake-ups and the global ripple effect.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen People vs. Chosen Generation?
 🧠 Article: JPost - Chosen Identity
 https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-863747?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

  • Are Gen Z and Jewish identity colliding or aligning?

  • Who defines chosenness in 2025?

📖 Devotional Dive – Psalm 119: Daled (vv. 25–32)

  • From delight (v.24) ➡ to dust (v.25): a spiritual drop.

  • Chris: “No wonder my wife calls me the prophet of doom—every high point comes with a ‘just wait.’”

  • 🔑 Key themes:

    • “Teach me” (v.26) 📚

    • “Make me understand” (v.27) 💭

    • “Strengthen me” (v.28) 💪

    • “Cling to Your testimonies” (v.31) 🙌

    • “Enlarge my heart” — God’s Word expands our capacity for Him ❤️

🗞 News Blitz

  1. 🩸 Former PA PM Praises Oct 7
     📰 Breitbart Report
     https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/10/former-palestinian-authority-pm-praises-oct-7-massacre-courageous-hamas-plo-unity/

  • He called it courageous. We call it evil.

  1. 🏬 Churches in Shopping Malls
     📰 CNBC Feature
     https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/09/americas-dying-shopping-malls-have-surprising-rebound-in-store.html

  • Dead malls… now revived with the Gospel?

  1. 🥟 Pierogis for Dershowitz
     📰 Fox News Opinion
     https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-dershowitz-takes-pierogi-politics-leftist-hypocrisy

  • Food, politics, and Jewish identity—served hot.

  1. 🌱 Human Composting
     📰 USA Today
     https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/09/states-legalize-human-composting/85454339007/

  • From dust we came… to compost we return?

🗣 Yiddish Word of the Week
 Shmutz (שׁמוץ) — n. dust, grime

  • “My soul clings to the shmutz.” Psalm 119:25, paraphrased.

 

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
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“Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7
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The Shower Sandwich Saint, Open My Eyes That I May See, Netanyahu’s Gaza Gamble, and Mechiah (Episode #209)

Thursday Aug 07, 2025

Thursday Aug 07, 2025

🎙️ Jew & Gentile Podcast — Episode [#209]
 Title: “The Shower Sandwich Saint, Open My Eyes That I May See, Netanyahu’s Gaza Gamble, and Mechiah”

In This Episode:
 Steve returns from Chicago with heartwarming and hilarious listener stories—including one involving a shower, a sandwich, and a plugged drain. We reflect on Psalm 119, explore cruise dreams, and tackle headlines from around the world and Israel. Plus, don’t miss two exciting FOI Equip classes coming this fall!

🧼 Listener Story: Sandwich in the Shower
 A beloved listener—famous for eating a sandwich in the shower while listening to the podcast—is now with the Lord.
 His daughter shared:

“The shower drain was clogged. I pulled out sandwich bags and candy wrappers. I don’t know what he was doing in there, but I know he felt better with the water falling on him.”
 Rest well, 8th Listener. You made us laugh and left your mark (in the pipes).

Also… multiple people in Wisconsin and Chicago claim to be the “8th Listener.” The legend grows.

🚢 Cruise Life Update
 Chris dreams of a simpler life—on the high seas.

  • New goal: $1.8 million for an unlimited cruise package, complete with a private room and bathroom.

  • Why own land when you can sail it?

📚 FOI Equip Update (Sponsored Segment)
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  1. Isaiah 53 with Dr. Will Varner – September 11 & 18

  • A deep dive into the suffering servant through a Jewish lens.

“Two Years Later: Eyewitness Account” with Sivan Oved – October 7
  • A powerful update on the events of October 7, 2023, from someone who lived it.

📲 Register now at: https://www.foiequip.org

📖 Disciple’s Delight in the Word – Psalm 119:17–24

“Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.”
 Even when rulers oppose and culture collapses, the Word remains our guide, joy, and strength.

🗞️ In the News

  1. Smotrich’s Controversial “Death to the Arabs” Photo
     Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich posted a photo from Sa-Nur with visible graffiti reading “Death to the Arabs.” The photo was later cropped, but the backlash continues.
     Read more:
     https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-863523

  2. Mozambique: ISIS Beheads Christians in a “Silent Genocide”
     ISIS-affiliated fighters in northern Mozambique are beheading Christians, torching churches, and devastating villages. MEMRI calls it a “silent genocide,” and global response remains minimal.
     Read more:
     https://www.foxnews.com/world/isis-soldiers-behead-christians-mozambique-burning-church-homes-silent-genocide

  3. Netanyahu: Full Gaza Occupation May Be Necessary
     Israeli PM Netanyahu is considering a full military occupation of Gaza to finish off Hamas and rescue hostages. Experts warn it may lead to the bloodiest phase of the war yet.
     Read more:
     https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/world-news/netanyahu-believes-occupying-gaza-is-only-way-to-finish-hamas-save-hostages-but-it-will-also-start-bloodiest-phase-of-war-experts/

🗣️ Yiddish Word of the Day: Mechiah (מְחַיָּה)
 Definition: A joy. A relief. A blessing.

“It is a mechiah — God’s Word is a delight!”

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