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Judaism is the oldest, and the smallest of the three Abrahamic religions because Judaism is a boutique religion. Just as a boutique small-capacity...
Why did our species survive when Homo Neanderthals and all other almost human species went extinct? The theories are many, but some comparisons of...
One of the most important lessons educators of religion should teach; is why there should be so many different names for the One God of the three...
Judaism has always been intellectually and theologically diverse; but because the Medieval Church in Europe made conversion to Judaism a crime, the...
About 42% of married Jews have a spouse who is not Jewish. Among American Jews who have gotten married since 2010, that percentage rises to 61%. ...
I myself do not believe that anything, even the universe, is eternal. Nothing lasts forever. Scientists say when our sun becomes a red giant—in an...
Religion is not a maladaptive “illusion” (Freud), nor is religion a manipulative “opiate” (Marx). Religious behavior is a...
If the Palestine leadership in the 1920’s had welcomed the early Zionists as cousins returning home after a very long absence, there would have been...
Religion is not a maladaptive “illusion” (Freud), nor is religion a manipulative “opiate” (Marx). Religious behavior is a ubiquitous...
The word Armageddon is the Hebrew Har Meghiddo, meaning “Mountain of Megiddo ”. Har Magheddon, which is 80 miles north of Jerusalem, is the symbol...
A massive 8th century BCE man-made platform discovered at a Catholic convent in central Israel several years ago, may be an ancient shrine for the...
Rabbi Akiva is one of the most charismatic, imaginative, and prolific sages of the Talmud. Yet, we are told that a terrible plague killed 24,000 of...
Prophet Muhammad was a messenger for all nations and not just for Arabs or Muslims. I think of myself as a Reform Rabbi who is an Islamic Jew....
Almost 50,000 Americans killed themselves in 2022, up by 2.6 percent from the year before. The Harvard School of Public Health reported in 2020 that...
The number of civilian casualties in Gaza has been at the center of international attention since the start of the war. The main source for the data...
Sakinah is an important word and a very important concept in both Islamic and Jewish thought. In Islamic thought, it
Gog-Magog (Hebrew Bible) and Yajuj-Majuj (Arabic Qur’an) are the long-time threats to God’s future Messianic Age. In the 17th to
Most Jews trace a considerable or even a majority (at least 50–60%) of ancestral component clearly identified with the populations
Rebekah Tokatlilar writes in the April 17, 2023 issue of the Religious News Service that “When I was 18, I
Has Islam been the one religion acceptable to God since the days of Prophet Muhammad? Does Islam claim to replace
While the planet is too hot to be habitable, detecting its atmosphere can provide insights into the early conditions of
From very early in Jewish history and religious literature there has been a strong current of criticism of those who
Pre-human Homo Sapiens people have walked out of Africa for hundreds of thousands of years, and we have evidence for early (pre-human) Homo Sapiens in...
In the following eight verses the Qur’an asserts that the Jews killed their Prophets. Is this correct? No and yes. No, because the Jewish people...
The Jerusalem Temple (Beit HaMikdosh) and the Ka’ba, the House of God (Baitullah) in Mecca are the two most well-known sites for monotheistic...
A major misunderstanding of the Biblical concept of God choosing a people or a prophet is caused by the use of the word ‘the’ chosen when a better...
Andrew Silow-Carrol reviews a new book by Oren Kessler “Palestine 1936” that treats the Palestinian side respectively, and still received one of...
Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut starting today, the world economy is already stuck to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to...
Judaism is not a missionary faith and so doesn’t actively try to convert non-Jewish people (in many countries anti-Jewish laws prohibited converting...
The Passover Seder celebrates God’s rescue of the oppressed Jewish People from Egypt more than 32 centuries ago. The Rabbis added an aspect of...
Dr. Joseph Weinstein points out that the biblical exodus account describes a mass refugee movement in which thousands of oppressed Hebrews (or...
The theft of fire for the benefit of humanity is a theme that recurs in many dozens of the world’s mythologies. Its recurrent themes include...
“Prophetically, we are on the verge of the Gog-Magog war that (Prophet) Ezekiel described in chapters 38 and 39,” Pastor Hagee said after 320...
Over 2,000 Gods and Goddesses were worshiped in ancient Egypt. Some are well known known like Isis, Osiris, Horus, Amun, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth,...
Politically motivated people can easily use selected parts of their own religion and/or of their opponents religion, to justify their own political...
By Peter Jacobsen You probably saw the recent headlines. Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a new bill that he claims will reduce weekly working hours...
The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally, the European Union’s climate monitoring service reported, raising alarms over sharp...
Professor Meira Z. Kensky of Coe Collage in a very insightful article in the Times of Israel (November 18, 2021) alerts us to how Prophet Jacob makes...
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said: “The names of Allah are not limited to a certain number…With regard to the Hadith words of Prophet Muhammad:...
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s son Ibrahim, his companions tried to comfort him by saying that the sun eclipsed due to the greatness of...
Gabriel Said Reynolds, a Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at Notre Dame University, wrote an article “On the Description of the Jews as...
The final Friday prayers of the Muslim month of Ramadan passed peacefully at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount despite heightened...
As a Rabbi I pray daily for peace in the Holy Land and I offer these thoughts as positive steps to that goal. In cooperations with Muslims, a...
“We have indeed (started) revealing this (Message) in the Night of Power. What will explain to you what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is...
In the middle of Ramadan (March 24, 2024) this year, Jews observed the Biblical holiday of Purim. Fasting and prayer is a way of preparing to meet a...
About 125,000 people attended the third Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa-Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which ended peacefully and...
Three and a half years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches have fewer people in the pews, more money in the collection plate and (thank...
A Hadith declares that the month of Ramadan was when the three Abrahamic Religions began to receive their Books of Revelation. This Hadith, cited by...
A profound Hadith declares that the month of Ramadan was when the three Abrahamic Religions began to receive their Books of Revelation. This Hadith,...
Ramadan this year started at sunset March 10, 2024. A Hadith declares that Ramadan was when the three Abrahamic Religions received their Books of...