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Aug 10, 2026, 8:17 AM

Israel Is Surrounded Today. Are You Aware of What Comes Next?

Since October 2023, Israel has fought on six fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Five of them were not countries in any useful sense. They were militias holding ground inside countries, armed and paid from the same...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 9, 2026, 6:36 AM

Egypt Did It All And We Are Still Here

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 ancient Greek translation (the Septuagint) and Stephen's speech in the New Testament Book of Acts...

Aug 5, 2026, 6:28 AM

Does a Heavenly Temple Replace the Earthly Avodah?

The claim moves quietly through communities that love the Hebrew Scriptures. The earthly Temple, they hear, was only a shadow. The real altar stands in Heaven. The real high priest serves there. The real and final cleansing happens above....

Allen S. Maller

Aug 3, 2026, 6:27 PM

Abraham’s Three Ongoing Religions

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 ending at sundown on June 26th. The day commemorates for Shia Muslims the...

Jul 29, 2026, 6:24 AM

Turning Aside: When Moses and AI Met the Burning Bush

Moses and The Burning Bush

Moses was at work. That is the first thing the story tells us, and the easiest thing to skip. He was tending another man's sheep, in a far country, for his father-in-law. He was not on retreat. He was...

Joshua Z. Rokach

Jul 27, 2026, 7:50 PM

Overlooked in the Haredi Draft Debate

For many Jews, whether Haredim should serve in the IDF and the political firestorm surrounding the conflict between the Supreme Court and the Government have taken center stage in public discourse. Indeed, this past Shabbat, Nachamu, I attended a...

Michael S. Diamond

Jul 27, 2026, 4:18 AM

The Archive of Forgetting and Undoing

I have registered my maps in The Archive of Forgetting and Undoing. The walls to the Holy City have been breached in this month of the Babylonian god who at Summer’s zenith dies, the faithful son, and returns with the rains of Winter and Spring dew, ransom for his goddess sister, Lady of the Date Clusters. Perhaps...

Arnon Rubinstein

Jul 26, 2026, 6:04 PM

Better is the sight of the eyes

טוב מראה עיניים The origin of this phrase is from the Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet 6:9) in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). The original is a much deeper verse appears as: ‘טוֹב מַרְאֵה עֵינַיִם מֵהֲלָךְ־נָפֶשׁ’ meaning ‘Better is the...

Jul 24, 2026, 6:04 AM

Book review – The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Deuteronomy

Imagine reading Shakespeare without knowing anything about Elizabethan England. Much of the language, humor, politics, and cultural references would be lost. The same is true of the Torah. Without understanding the world in which it was given, readers inevitably...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 23, 2026, 10:28 PM

Bringing good news to Jerusalem

In the Haftara for Shabbat Nachamu (Yishayahu 40:1-26) we find four voices of comfort. The fourth voice, the voice of Mevaseret Zion, the female bearer of good tidings, is found in verses 9-11: Ascend the high mountain, you who bear...

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