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Adrienne Skolnik

Aug 17, 2026, 12:49 PM

The Real Mamdani Vote

There is a misconception as to which religious population’s vote caused the election of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Misleading comments have been made that it was the Jewish vote that won him this victory. Truth be told, not only...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 17, 2026, 12:08 AM

Did Vikings Reach Israel Long Before the Crusades?

While our title invites a simple answer, the historical record resists one. Our contemporary imagination of the Viking Age remains fundamentally captive to popular culture; cinematic narratives such as Vikings and The Last Kingdom continuously reify the historical trope of...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 16, 2026, 12:12 PM

Rafael Nadal and Inner Stability

Ritual, Rhythm, and the Mind: Nadal, the Five Prayers, and the Architecture of Inner Stability There is a moment before every Rafael Nadal serve that feels almost liturgical. He adjusts his shorts. Touches his nose. Pulls his shirt. Taps his left shoulder, then his...

Aug 14, 2026, 6:20 PM

The Non Apartheid State of Israel

Celebrating the Jewish Ethiopian Sigd holiday in Jerusalem. Photo, (c) T. Book, 2026

To call Israel an apartheid state is absurd as saying that there are equal rights to all peoples in any of the countries surrounding Israel. To call Israel an apartheid state is in the words of Colonel Richard Kemp: Not...

Aug 14, 2026, 5:31 PM

Social Action Is Not an Optional Addition to the Gospel

A Theology of Social Action and Justice — Part III Christian theology has often treated social action as something added to faith after the “real” work of doctrine, conversion, worship, and personal morality has been completed. Poverty, racism, labor, housing,...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 14, 2026, 12:28 AM

Beyond the Eclipse

On August 1 according to the Julian calendar, August 14 in the civil calendar this year, the Byzantine Churches celebrate an unusual conjunction. The Precious and Life-Giving Cross is brought forth - ἡ Πρόοδος τοῦ Τιμίου καὶ Ζωοποιοῦ Σταυροῦ...

Aug 10, 2026, 3:46 PM

The Church and The Gospel – Part XVIII

MAGA, Christian Nationalism, and the Political Instrumentalization of the Church The alliance between white evangelical Christianity and Donald Trump did not begin Christian political instrumentalism, but it made the bargain unusually visible. A political leader whose public character frequently conflicted with...

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...

Aug 10, 2026, 8:07 AM

They Asked If I Was Jewish. I Said No.

The author in Jerusalem, September 2014.

I'm a Christian researching antisemitism, and I keep ending up in Jerusalem. This last time it was after presenting survey research on theology, digital media, and antisemitism among young Christian men at a Contemporary Antisemitism Conference in Haifa. But Jerusalem...

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....

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