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The Book 1 Enoch marks a new religious perspective. So familiar do 1 Ezra’s themes look in retrospect – angels, personal and national Judgment,...
Saudi Arabia is expected to experience above-average temperatures across most of the Kingdom through October, with rainfall intensifying from...
DEATH: Torah; Do Not Murder Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:7 : “Do Not Kill” in Christian translations in accordance with Jesus’ ‘turn the other...
A Pew Poll released on June 22, 2021 found that the proportion of respondents identifying as Jewish today, and say that they did not have a Jewish...
If there is only one God why are there so many religions?’ A good question that I as a Reform Rabbi have often been asked and this is my answer. The...
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” I think of this statement whenever I hear of...
The traditional Hebrew text of the Bible states that 70 members of Prophet Jacob’s family went down to Egypt (Genesis 46:27, Exodus 1:5). The...
“And it is He (God) who has made you [humans] viceroys (khala’ifa) upon the earth; and has raised some of you above others in degrees [of wealth,...
The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the 10-20,000 citizens...
Muslims know that Hagar and her son Prophet Ishmael are mentioned in the Biblical book of Genesis, (chapter 21); but very few know that every year...
The Seer of Lublin was one of the most famous and formidable of the Hassidic Rabbis at the end of the 18th century. His greatest disciple (who had...
Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram, on the Islamic lunar calendar of 1448. Ashura for 2026 was observed on sundown of June 25th...
Any non-Jewish person of sound mind who feels a personal draw to Judaism can become Jewish. People commonly convert to Judaism out of personal...
It is hard for me as a Reform Rabbi to understand why most Jews in Medina, where they were a large minority, didn’t support Muhammad as a prophet...
Why do we still say “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” even after God has changed Jacob’s name to Israel. If we look at the “big...
Why Hebrew-Jews (Genesis 14:13) were able to survive as the only ongoing monotheistic religion for about 15 centuries, when none of the other hundreds...
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. Before the...
Long before Daesh (Islamic State) began murdering thousands of woman and children in order to establish God’s right order in the world, Pope Gregory...
The accusation that in the past “The Jews Killed The Prophets” is designed by a religious establishment to explain why their own current religious...
“What need have I of all your sacrifices?” says YHWH. “Devote yourselves to justice; aid the wronged, uphold the rights of orphans; defend the...
A rather unusual form of evidence for reincarnation comes from the Jewish mystical tradition; the Kabbalah. Unlike Buddhism and Hinduism, Kabbalah...
The first Gobekli Tepe Temple appears to have been deliberately filled in about 10,000 years ago. We have no knowledge of why this earliest major...
A rather unusual form of evidence for reincarnation comes from the Jewish mystical tradition; the Kabbalah. Unlike Buddhism and Hinduism, Kabbalah...
“What need have I of all your sacrifices?” says YHWH. “Devote yourselves to justice; aid the wronged, uphold the rights of orphans; defend the...
Shia Islam and Judaism share a yearly day of mourning and fasting for a very tragic, sad, historical religious event that happened many centuries ago....
Rabbi Allen Maller, who served as a Rabbi at Temple Akiba in Culver City, CA for 39 years, has always encouraged non-Jews who are interested in...
Malachi 3:1 states that prophet Malachi foretold; “Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his (Golden Gate) temple; the (Messiah)...
Over the last four years, more than 200,000 people have died in the E.U. due to extreme heat. The world’s oceans are boiling and rising at an...
Should a Holocaust survivor who visits a death camp with his daughter and grandchildren weep for all those who died, or should they dance to the music...
Muslims know that Hagar and her son Prophet Ishmael are mentioned in the Biblical book of Genesis, (chapter 21); but very few know that every year...
Shia Islam and Judaism share a yearly day of mourning and fasting for a very tragic, sad, historical religious event that happened more than 13...
The transition from not being Jewish to feeling and thinking Jewish is a gradual one. In Islam and Christianity God comes first. The proclamation that...
Rabbi Allen Maller, who served as a Rabbi at Temple Akiba in Culver City, CA for 39 years, has always encouraged non-Jews who are interested in...
Shia Islam and Judaism share a yearly day of mourning and fasting for a very tragic, sad, historical religious event that happened more than 13...
Tens of millions of Americans sweltered under furnace-like temperatures as central and eastern American cities hunkered down for a heat wave. Over the...
The Qur’an states, “You have an excellent example to follow in Abraham.” (60:4) and “Follow the way of Abraham as people of pure faith.”...
Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram, on the Islamic lunar calendar of 1448. Ashura for 2026 was observed on sundown of June 25th...
Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram, on the Islamic lunar calendar of 1448. Ashura for 2026 was observed on sundown of June 25th...
When Jews mourn the two destructions of Jerusalem and its Holy Temple on the 9th of Av (July 22-23, 2026 this year) they begin with reading the...
Deuteronomy 33:1 states “This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.” And 1...
In the modern world, large scale emigration has brought many Muslims into close contact with other Muslims from distant lands. While all Muslims are...
Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram, on the Islamic lunar calendar of 1448. Ashura for 2026 is observed on sundown of June 25th...
Exodus 12:42 states; “Because the Lord kept a vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep a vigil to...
The Talmud tells us that there were 48 male prophets and seven female prophetesses from the Jewish people. The seven prophetesses of the Hebrew...
Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque is one of the most sacred places in Islam, where Muslims believe Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven, and nearby (600...
Most people know that in Orthodox Jewish Law: if the mother is Jewish, the children are Jewish; if only the father is Jewish, the children are not...
According to a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, 64% of Americans do not want to live in a primarily Christian nation. Instead, they...
Israel remains almost evenly divided over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fitness. Netanyahu avoids criticizing US-Iran deal, and claims the...
Many dozens of haredi protesters rioted outside the home of Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg, damaging his home and car, as part of...
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