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Allen S. Maller

Sep 3, 2026, 6:17 PM

Non-Jews Becoming Jewish Again

A Pew Poll released on June 22, 2021 found the proportion of respondents identifying as Jewish today, and say that they did not have a Jewish parent, and were not raised Jewish in any way. This group of formal...

Aug 27, 2026, 3:25 PM

At the Table, Not Under the Canopy

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The Bride, the Friends, and Those Left in the Outer Darkness There is a primary, undeniable romance running like a golden thread through the Hebrew Scriptures: Hashem is the Husband, and Israel is His Bride. Every covenantal mechanism, every boundary stone,...

Aug 24, 2026, 5:31 AM

Don’t Let Yourself Be Treated Like a Second Class Citizen

A black girl converting to Judaism says some Jews in the community call her "schvartza". I said that's not ok. I told her you shouldn't tolerate that.She said it doesn't bother me. I think it does bother her. She...

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...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 14, 2026, 6:23 PM

The Recycling Of Jewish Souls

A Pew Poll released on June 22, 2021 found that the proportion of respondents identifying as Jewish today, and say that they did not have a Jewish parent, and were not raised Jewish in any way. This group of...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 11, 2026, 10:43 AM

Do not take God’s 99 names in vain

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” I think of this statement whenever I hear of suicide bombers targeting another group of innocent civilians. I think, and I shudder, because...

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...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 6, 2026, 5:52 AM

The Constitution of Medina’s Importance For Jews

The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the 10-20,000+ citizens living in Medina at that time. About 50-55% of the total population in Medina consisted of pagan...

Elchanan Poupko

Aug 5, 2026, 9:38 AM

When Israel can’t recognize its own: Fallacies in making aliyah

Jews like Rabbi Avi Weiss and local US ultra-Orthodox are obviously eligible to move to Israel; the Jewish state must cut through any red tape getting in their way

Allen S. Maller

Aug 4, 2026, 6:01 AM

Jewish Wisdom stories retold by Rabbi Allen S. Maller

The Seer of Lublin was one of the most famous and formidable of the Hassidic Rabbis at the end of the 18th century. His greatest disciple (who had exactly the same name as his master) was called the Yehudi...

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