Allen S. Maller

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Apr 17, 2025, 11:39 PM

The Impact of Life on another planet for Us

There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our minds as they show us the giant scale and wonderful life of God’s Universe and our place in it. The...

Apr 9, 2025, 9:53 PM

Tawhid: Promote Religious Pluralism for a Religious Revival

The first quarter of the 21st century saw a major rise in the number of people in the USA who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” which now stands at 26% of the total...

Apr 3, 2025, 10:14 PM

Prayers Answered for a Peaceful Al-Aqsa Mosque

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers prayed peacefully at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan despite fears of unrest due to tensions over the Gaza war. The Islamic Waqf, which...

Apr 2, 2025, 10:46 PM

Tashbih: Biblical Anthropomorphism and the Qur’an

The Qur’an teaches: Say, to Him.” (2:136) While Christians, Jews and Muslims should make no disrespectful distinction between any of their prophets or their sacred scriptures, we cannot help but notice that the circumstances and style of each of...

Mar 31, 2025, 4:50 AM

A 21st Century Statement of (Reform) Jewish Beliefs

I (Rabbi Allen Maller) pass on this statement that I have just signed. It is for rabbis and cantors who wish to sign this statement, please respond to Rabbi Fred Reiner, vegierebbe@hotmail.com. They are keeping track of those who...

Mar 29, 2025, 10:02 PM

Do not Become Religious Extremists

Most people whose knowledge of Islam is derived from the daily news would be shocked to learn that Prophet Muhammad told Muslims, “Religion (Islam) is very easy, whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue...

Mar 27, 2025, 2:35 PM

Allah’s Biblical and Qur’anic Names: Past and Future

In the days of Prophet Abraham, the religions of the Near East and India had hundreds of different gods, with hundreds of names for their different gods, but for those religions that trace their prophets back to Prophet Abraham,...

Mar 26, 2025, 12:42 PM

Prophet Isaiah’s hopeful visions are coming, so do not give up

For 27 centuries the message of Prophet Isaiah that in the future Messianic Age of worldwide peace would result in an idealistic visionary transformation of nature itself with even animal predators becoming vegetarians. Isaiah 11:6-9 states: “The wolf will live...

Mar 25, 2025, 12:20 PM

Muhammad is Islam’s Last Prophet: a Rabbi’s View

I have been studying Islam off and on for over 65 years, but only recently have I understood why Prophet Muhammad could be called the ‘Last Prophet’ by someone who was not a part of the Muslim Ummah. Muslims...

Mar 24, 2025, 5:35 AM

All Tawhid Religions Have a Last Prophet

Farhad Shafti on his web site ‘exploring Islam’ states that God promised Ibrahim to provide religious leaders from among his many generations to come (2:124) and Ibrahim in particular asked God to raise a prophet among the distant generations...

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About Me

Rabbi Allen S. Maller has published over 850 articles on Jewish values in over a dozen Christian, Jewish, and Muslim magazines and web sites. Rabbi Maller is the author of "Tikunay Nefashot," a spiritually meaningful High Holy Day Machzor, two books of children's short stories, and a popular account of Jewish Mysticism entitled, "God, Sex and Kabbalah." His most recent books are "Judaism and Islam as Synergistic Monotheisms' and "Which Religion Is Right For You?: A 21st Century Kuzari" both available on Amazon.