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Chaim Frankenhuis

Apr 20, 2026, 12:29 AM

Is Al-Aqsa Truly Sacred, Or Is It Just About Keeping The Jews Out?

View of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem (Chaim Frankenhuis)

The footage of Israeli police deflating a soccer ball spread instantly- but the context behind the story is the part they won’t tell you A video surfaced recently of Israeli police on the Temple Mount confiscating soccer balls from Muslim...

Mohamed Elbaikam

Mar 24, 2026, 6:05 AM

Congress Must Judge Western Sahara on Its Own

Congress Should Not Outsource Its Judgment on Western Sahara By Mohamed Elbaikam Independent Sahrawi activist In Sahrawi culture, serious matters do not begin with noise. They begin with listening. Even tea in the desert is served in stages: the first glass...

Allen S. Maller

Jan 8, 2026, 11:26 PM

Shukr Up and Shirk Gods Down

The last pilgrims of the 2025 Holy Year passed through the door of St. Peter’s Basilica; and the Vatican claimed more than 33 million people participated in this Jubilee pilgrimage. Many Americans have lost faith in organized religion, yet according to recent...

Dec 31, 2025, 2:47 PM

How to Raise a Martyr: Palestinian Textbooks and “Occupied” UN Workers

Source: Reuters. IDF outside of UNRWA in Gaza.

Remember your childhood textbooks? The ones you scribbled doodles in. Do you recall if they taught facts, or fed you propaganda? My first textbook was titled “From Sea to Shining Sea,” and it sold me a false history—one that...

Dec 16, 2025, 3:57 PM

Education and empathy: our strongest weapons

I try to imagine what the mother of a homicidal boy, the wife of a gunman, must be thinking to herself right now. What she must be thinking when the whole world, at least, the world as I know...

Dec 15, 2025, 6:58 PM

Levites Returning To The Temple Mount As They Did In Chanukah

Jewish worshipers today on the Temple Mount prostrating and celebrating Chanukah.

KaYamim HaHeim KaZman HaZeh Like in those days, so in our time. The Temple Mount was the center of the Chanukah story just as it remains our center in the Land today. And that is because it unites the two miracles...

Allen S. Maller

Dec 6, 2025, 11:40 AM

Hajj and Hag to the Center of the Spiritual World

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 100-120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting of wild cattle. Scientists suggest that this way...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 27, 2025, 1:52 PM

Israel Speaks Truth, World Sides with Jihad

The world is rewarding terror and calling it peace. By rushing to “recognize Palestine,” global elites have handed a victory to Hamas — a jihadist group whose 1988 Charter declares: “There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except...

Jun 5, 2025, 7:34 PM

On Shavuot the Temple Service was Renewed

The literal place of the Temple courtyards, now a 'high place of forests' as Micha put it (Micha 3:12). 26 May 2025.

Unbeknownst to the general public and 'just-like-that' Temple sacrificial service was just started this holiday of Shavuot 2025. The Torah commands people of Israel to offer many types of sacrifices - and a good portion of them are vegetarian....

May 22, 2025, 2:57 PM

Yerushalayim: The Name That Declares Jewish Destiny

This coming week, as we mark Jerusalem Day, I find myself filled not only with joy, but with sorrow, frustration, and a spiritual ache. What exactly are we commemorating? Not just a war. Not just a city. We’re commemorating a...

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