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Aug 30, 2026, 6:31 AM

The People We Love Keep Becoming

Ki Tavo and the courage to love someone you haven’t fully met yet I think we set the bar for love far too low. We talk about finding someone who will love us “just the way we are.” But if you are...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 29, 2026, 10:22 AM

A Jewish New Year For All Human History

January the first will begin the Christian calendar year 2027. Christians know their calendar starts from the birth of Jesus. Muslims know the Muslim calendar begins with the escape of Muhammad from oppression and persecution by the Arabs of...

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

Joshua Z. Rokach

Aug 25, 2026, 7:10 PM

A tale of two synagogue buffer zones

Last week, my former synagogue in Maryland began a lobbying campaign to pass a bill creating a 100-foot buffer zone against boisterous protests around synagogues and other places of worship. Later in the week, a congregation down the street...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 24, 2026, 12:43 AM

Discovering Gold in Israel

In the sixth Haftara of comfort, the Haftara for Parshat Ki Tavo, we come across an interesting verse about God compensating Israel (Yishayahu 60:17): “Where once there was copper, I will bring gold and where there was iron, silver....

Allen S. Maller

Aug 20, 2026, 12:30 PM

We Will Survive: Qiyamah Optimistic Eschatology

The Book 1 Enoch marks a new religious perspective. So familiar do 1 Ezra’s themes look in retrospect – angels, personal and national Judgment, one or two Messiahs, plus a Son of Man – that we can easily fail...

Michael Knighton

Aug 19, 2026, 7:55 AM

Water in the wilderness: A desert preaches

People walk in the rain in Jerusalem, August 15, 2026. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

It doesn't rain in Israel in August. It just doesn't. So when the heavens bucketed down on the dry and dusty wadis, I found myself looking for meaning

Allen S. Maller

Aug 18, 2026, 2:01 PM

Armageddon VS. A Mahdi, Three Messiahs and Jesus

Saudi Arabia is expected to experience above-average temperatures across most of the Kingdom through October, with rainfall intensifying from September and potentially reaching heavy to very heavy levels in some areas later in the season, the National Center for...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 17, 2026, 7:07 PM

The role of the roof

In Parshat Ki Tetze (Dvarim 22:8) we learn about the importance of fencing in the roof of a building: “When you build a new home, you are to make a fence for your roof…” What were roofs like in Biblical...

Aug 17, 2026, 7:06 PM

Do Not Raise the Axe

The Kanaani’s journey from the Gates of Eden to America and Finland

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