Episodes
July 17, 2022
Generation to Generation: Teaching Your Children to Set Priorities
With increasing demands on our time and attention coming from all sides — emails, text messages, Zoom calls, social media — how can families today find the time to connect with each other, and more importantly, with God? For…
July 10, 2022
Generation to Generation: Passing on a Legacy of Faith to Our Children
According to renown Christian leader Billy Graham, the greatest legacy we can leave the next generation is not money nor the material things we’ve accumulated, but a legacy of faith and character. Passing on our faith is of …
June 5, 2022
SPECIAL PENTECOST EDITION: How You Can Strengthen Your Relationship with God & Others
What if you were asked to name the most important quality in a person of faith? What would you say? Honesty? Purity? Compassion? Scripture actually has an answer to this question. In honor of the Jewish holiday Shavuot , the…
June 1, 2022
Conversations with Yael: Bishop Paul Lanier — “Answering God’s Call to Bless His People”
Nearly 13 years ago, a pastor in North Carolina made a life-changing decision to answer God’s call to bless Israel by bringing needy and persecuted Jews back to their biblical homeland. Four years later, this pastor enlisted…
May 29, 2022
Why We Should ALL Celebrate Jerusalem Day!
Today, Jews in Israel celebrate Jerusalem Day — Yom Yerushalayim — commemorating the miraculous reunification of God’s Holy City in 1967. But as podcast host Yael Eckstein explains, we ALL — Christians and Jews — should cele…
May 15, 2022
Why Doing Less Often Leads to Receiving More!
Since last September, the people of Israel have been living out the biblical command to observe a sabbatical year as found in the Book of Leviticus. But what does that mean? For many in Israel, it has meant allowing fields t…
May 8, 2022
How We Can Make Every Day Count!
As kids, who didn’t count down the days until the end of school and the beginning of summer vacation? Even as adults, we sometimes count down the days to an important event — a milestone birthday, a wedding, or a special vac…
May 4, 2022
Women of Faith in Leadership
As we pause this month to celebrate the women in our lives, host Yael Eckstein welcomes to the podcast two modern-day Women of Valor who have influenced and mentored her — Michele Bachmann, former member of the U.S. Congress…
May 1, 2022
How We Can Really Love Our Neighbors as Ourselves
What does it really mean to love your neighbor as yourself? As Christians and Jews, we agree this is one of the most important commandments to follow, but what does that really look like? What does it mean to love our neighb…
April 24, 2022
Lessons from the Holocaust: The Power of One Life, One
For many Jews, Yom HaShoah , Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, is deeply personal. It’s a day to remember one of the darkest times in history that resulted in the horrific murder of six million Jewish souls. While it is a …
April 17, 2022
Special Passover Edition – Stepping Out in Faith
Think you know the whole story of the Israelites’ redemption from Egypt and the splitting of the Red Sea? Think again! On today’s special Passover episode, podcast host Yael Eckstein shares Jewish teachings about what happen…
April 10, 2022
What Passover Teaches Us About Asking Questions
In today’s special Passover episode, host Yael Eckstein explains the unique and sometimes unusual traditions for the Passover seder that are actually meant to encourage questions. In fact, the telling of the Exodus story beg…
April 6, 2022
Conversations with Yael Eckstein: Elisha Wiesel — Why We Must ‘Never Forget’ the Holocaust
April 28 is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, when Israelis and Jews around the world honor the six million souls who perished at the hands of the Nazis with solemn ceremonies and a nationwide moment of silence. In the…
April 3, 2022
Discover the Secret to Having a Good Life
If you are like many health-conscious people, you are concerned and mindful of what you put into your mouth. The question is, though, are you as concerned about what comes out of your mouth? In our world, gossip and slander …
March 27, 2022
How to See the World with “Good Eyes”
There’s a saying in the Jewish tradition that we don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are . Think about that. Whether we tend to focus on the negative or positive aspects of our life has everything to do with how …
March 20, 2022
How to Find Comfort When Bad Things Happen to Good People
If you have ever asked yourself “why do bad things happen to good people,” you’re not alone. It’s a question that has been asked since time began. And with the whole world watching the carnage and suffering of innocent peopl…
March 13, 2022
How Purim Teaches Us to See Behind the Masks of Life
This month, Jews around the world celebrate one of the most joyous holidays on the Jewish calendar – Purim, which commemorates the events written about in the Book of Esther . During this celebration, people in Israel host b…
March 6, 2022
Discover What It Means to Be Truly Humble
Most of us would agree that humility is an important virtue. But being humble is also one of the most misunderstood character traits. Many of us think of a humble person as someone who is meek or quiet. Or someone who doesn’…
March 4, 2022
SPECIAL EPISODE ON CRISIS IN UKRAINE: Conversations with Yael Eckstein: Michele Bachmann
The entire world is witnessing unthinkable events that have not been experienced on European soil since World War II. Russia has invaded Ukraine. Bombs are falling on innocent Ukrainian citizens. Refugees are fleeing by the …
Feb. 27, 2022
Why It’s So Hard to Ask for Help — And Why We Need to Do It Anyway.
Do you know what the best thing to do is when overwhelmed with an insurmountable task or a never-ending to-do list? Take a cue from the Bible and ask for help! It’s the most obvious thing to do, but for many of us, it’s also…
Feb. 23, 2022
Helping Holocaust Survivors Through One More Winter
On this special edition of Nourish Your Biblical Roots, host Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews , takes us to the subzero temperatures and the treacherous winter weather i…
Feb. 20, 2022
What the Moon Can Teach Us About Faith!
What if the next time you faced a challenge, you tried looking up at the moon for encouragement? That might seem a bit strange. But in today’s episode, host Yael Eckstein tells us about the biblical holiday of Rosh Chodesh, …
Feb. 13, 2022
It’s Time to Be Happy — Here’s How!
What do you think you need to be happy? A better job? A new house? Do you have everything you need to be happy right now? The truth is that God already has given us everything we need, challenges and all, to be truly happy r…
Feb. 6, 2022
The Three Keys to Unlocking Your Full Potential
If someone asked you, “What’s your special talent?”, what would you say? Unless we excel in some particular area, many of us might say we’re not talented at anything. But that couldn’t be further from the truth! As host Yael…