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Allen S. Maller

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Tawhid Holiness Is Linked to Respecting Kaab’a and Temple Mount

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...

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Allen S. Maller

Gilgul: Conversion Often Is Becoming Jewish Again

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...

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A True Religion Is Not a Zero Sum Game

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...

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Can Israeli Arab Politics Change the next Election

Israel remains almost evenly divided over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fitness. Netanyahu avoids criticizing US-Iran deal, and claims the...

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Israel’s Arab Parties In-fighting Before Election Just Like Jews

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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Recycling Jewish Souls Coming Home

A rather unusual form of evidence for reincarnation comes from the Jewish mystical tradition; the Kabbalah. Unlike Buddhism and Hinduism, Kabbalah...

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The Angel of Death Is a Hard-working Angel

A Mal’ach HaMavet– An Angel of Death, and a Tree of Life were all created on the same day, a few billion years ago. They were Yin and Yang. At...

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A Mal’ach HaMavet, An Angel of Death and A Tree of Life were created together

The Mal’ach HaMavet-the Angel of Death and the Tree of Life were created on the same day, several billion years ago. In the beginning old age...

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Qiyamah, Mahdi, and 3 Messiahs=Peaceful World

A Poll in Israel found that 87% of respondents say they are proud of being Jewish and that their Jewish identity is meaningful to them. About 85% said...

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Can A Rabbi Believe In Prophet Muhammad?

Yes and No. The most important thing that I believe about Prophets Muhammad and Jesus is that they both were human beings; and no human being, or any...

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How Soon Will The End Time Qiyamah Begin?

So 65 conflicts involving at least one state were recorded worldwide last year, a new high since 1946. Last year was the third deadliest since the end...

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Judaism Is Our History, Our Messianic Destiny, and Our Personal Morality

The Jewish religion is the outgrowth of the experience of the Jewish people through events to which they ascribe transcendent meaning. Every people...

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A Jewish Korean Princess Rabbi

GLENN ALTSCHULE writes about the daughter of Fred Warnick, a Jewish American, and Yi Sulija, a Korean Buddhist. Angela Buchdahl, who was the first...

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Tahrif Is Moses’s Will Of Pluralism

The Jewish Rabbis stated that 55 Jewish Prophets in the Hebrew Bible were know by name. The Talmud counts 48 male prophets and 7 female prophets....

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Comparing Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Prophets Abraham and Ishmael

On January 24, 2024, for a well known Muslim website ‘Islamicity’, I wrote the following article. The Qur’an itself tells us of the importance...

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Prophet Abraham VS Pharaoh Merneptah

The Merneptah Stele, erected in Egypt in 1208 BCE, is an Egyptian victory stele erected by Pharaoh Merneptah that tells how he (and his army) defeated...

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A Golem with AI Warfare Gives Four Endings

While we know that the Golem was finally deactivated, there are several different conflicting versions about how that happened, each one incorporating...

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Kosher and Halal Are Much More Than Just Words

KOSHER is the Hebrew word for the Hebrew Bible’s many dietary regulations for the Jewish People. Food that complies with these regulations is known...

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Converts Are God’s Gift to the Jewish People

The Hollywood Museum will host a centennial celebration honoring Marilyn Monroe, who was one of the most famous Hollywood converts to Judaism, on...

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Start With Messianic Hopes For A Peaceful World

The three monotheistic Abrahamic religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great wonders of...

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Comparing Jewish and Islamic Perspectives by Prophets Abraham and Ishmael

This is an example of the Comparing of Jewish and Islamic Perspectives By Prophets Abraham and Ishmael written By Rabbi Allen Maller, on January 24,...

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Mahdi and Jesus Were Messiah Figures But Not Gods

The Greek term christos occurs more than 500 times in the New Testament, and is used directly to Jesus of Nazareth. While many Christians today think...

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AntiSemitism And Islamophobia: A Two Sided Coin

On 15 March 2019, two consecutive terrorist mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand.  In total, 51 Muslims were killed and 89 others...

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Quran and Torah On Gog and Magog Qiyamah Today

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including gonorrhoea and syphilis have hit record levels in Europe, according to new data. Gonorrhoea hit...

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God’s Ongoing Covenant Of Love And Marriage

There are hundreds of millions of people today who have two, three or more self-identities. This was also true 3,600 years ago; although to a lesser...

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Armageddon Is Bad, Mahdi Is Good and Messiah’s Word’s Are Wonderful

The three monotheistic Abrahamic religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great wonders of...

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The Start Of A Messianic Hope For A Peaceful World

The three monotheistic Prophet Abraham religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great...

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This Fall 42% of Israel’s Likud voters may decide to back a different party

The exact date of Israel’s Fall general election has yet to be set, but the entire political system is already gearing up and gathering momentum,...

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Abdullah Ibn Salam Was Not the Only Jewish Supporter of Prophet Muhammad

Abdullah Ibn Salam was a Jewish supporter of Prophet Muhammad, and might even be mentioned in the Qur’an. “Say, “Have you considered: If the...

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We should invite Semi Jews to join us

Marc Clamage who states: Once you go Jew, nothing else will do: believes that Islam has already absorbed Christian theology and made it their own....

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Allah, Jinn, and Extrasolar Life Filled Planets

During medieval times, Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth-centered Greek view of the universe as an absolute universal truth. They...

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Why Jews Should Welcome Converts Who Have Lots of Questions

Marc Clamage who states: Once you go Jew, nothing else will do: believes that Islam has already absorbed Christian theology and made it their own....

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Islamic and Jewish Views on Abortion: When Does a Soul Enter a Fetus

Two years after the Supreme Court tossed out a challenge to the widely used abortion drug mifepristone, the justices must again decide whether...

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Prophet Abraham Was The Beginning Of Three Monotheistic Religions

Prophet Abraham was the first person to be called a “Hebrew” in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 14:13). The term Hebrew probably comes from the verb to...

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A Religious Insight From Extra Terrestrial Lifeforms

After the death of Prophet Muhammad’s son Ibrahim, his companions tried to comfort him by saying that a sun eclipsed due to the greatness of his...

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Messiahs and a Mahdi Overcoming Hot Wars

Scientists warned that Planet Earth could be approaching a “hothouse” state that would be extremely difficult to reverse. Several key parts of the...

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Of Allah’s 2000 Prophets 1000 Were Israelites

Brannon Wheeler in his article: ”Arab Prophets of the Quran and Bible.” Journal of Quranic Studies 8.2 (2006): 24-57: a study that focuses on the...

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Why Females Are Closer To Allah

In the United States and globally, men die by suicide at a rate roughly 3 to 4 times higher than women. So why do you frequently hear preachers say...

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Reading Other Peoples Religious Scriptures

Some Cristian’s ask “How do the Jews explain Matthew 27:25?” Jews really explain a verse from Other Peoples Religious Scriptures like Matthew,...

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Only Prophet Abraham Was A Friend of God

For many centuries before Prophet Abraham, thousands of the One God’s Prophets were unable to build an ongoing monotheistic community. “The people...

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Medical Assistance in Dying Is Growing

Several years ago, Canada began a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Now it is beginning to reshape how Canadians are facing...

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What Luke 17:20-23+37 teaches Christians, Jews and Muslims about a Messianic Age

Luke 17:20 says Jesus “was questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, and Jesus answered them; “The kingdom of God is...

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Islam and Judaism Rise A Religious Revival In 2026

On August 2024, Gallup released a survey showing that only 54% of American adults were consuming alcohol, the lowest percentage ever recorded in the...

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‘From River to Sea Both Sides Must Free Themselves Of Hatred and Suffering’

Iran says that they want a permanent end to the the many violent conflicts of the Near East. The 1979 peace treaty signed by Israeli Prime Minister...

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Rabbis Developed Belief of Resurrection of The Dead They Did Not Commit Tahrif

Belief in Qiyahmah (Judgement Day) and resurrection of the dead, is a very powerful part of the Qur’an’s teaching. Yet, as Prof. Devorah Dimant a...

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Was Prophet Muhammad Partly-Hebrew and Partly-Arab?

Since Prophet Muhammad’s ancestry can be traced back to Prophet Ishmael the son of Prophet Abraham, doesn’t that make Prophet Muhammad himself...

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Is Prophet Muhammad part-Jewish?

Since Prophet Muhammad’s ancestry can be traced back to Prophet Ishmael, the son of Prophet Abraham, doesn’t that make Prophet Muhammad...

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Gog-Magog Are Wars and Burning Fossil Fuels

The Qur’an warns everyone: “Guard yourselves against the (Qiyahmah-Judgment) Day on which no soul will be of help to another. No intercession will...

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A Mahdi For Pre-Messianic Times

Eric Mandel, writing in the Jerusalem Post on March 16, calls Iran’s war “a war of attrition”.  The loss of its current leadership through...

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Jewish Attitudes Towards Converts To Judaism

Unlike Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, Judaism does not have much of a missionary impulse. That is why there are so few Jews in the world. Mormons,...

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