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Allen S. Maller
Oct 22, 2024, 3:36 PM
Tawhid, Torah and Three Unique Abrahamic Religions
There are hundreds of millions of people today who have two or three self-identities. This was also true 3,600 years ago; although to a much lesser extent than today. For example, Prophet Abraham is called a Muslim in the...
Allen S. Maller
Oct 8, 2024, 9:39 AM
Jews do not Proselytize Because…
People become Jewish for many reasons. Being saved by believing in Judaism as the only true religion is not one of them. Four decades ago I met a recent Russian immigrant who had started an introduction to Judaism class in Boston....
Kenneth Cohen
Sep 12, 2024, 12:23 PM
Samson and King Solomon Did Not Intermarry
The Rambam in Hilchot Issurei Bi’ah, discusses the correct process in dealing with converts and how they are accepted as part of the Jewish people. He spoke of an ideal conversion scenario, and one that was minimally acceptable. Ideally, there...
Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Sep 6, 2024, 7:42 AM
Race? Sort of; Racism – no!
Over the past two centuries (from the Romantic Era, if not even earlier) the world has been infected by the idea of “race”. In conventional wisdom, this has meant that disparate peoples are fundamentally different – and in its...
Allen S. Maller
Aug 15, 2024, 11:49 PM
Muslims say Revert and Jews say Convert with Jewish Ancestors
Most Muslims call conversion reverting but in Arabic, the term used is “aslama” which simply means “to become a Muslim” and literally means “to submit or surrender”. The term “revert” is used because in theory every individual is born...
Allen S. Maller
Jul 16, 2024, 6:31 PM
Jewish converts revitalize un-Orthodox synagogues
Linda Rich writes profoundly in her blog in the Times of Israel (July 1, 2024) “It was just another Shabbat morning service at a progressive synagogue on NY’s Upper West Side. The first aliyah (blessing for Torah reading) was...
Linda Rich
Jul 1, 2024, 2:32 AM
This is the Jewish people
It was just another Shabbat morning service at a progressive synagogue on NY’s Upper West Side. The first aliyah (blessing for Torah reading) was shared by a newly married couple, he a very recent Jew by choice, on the bimah...
Motti Wilhelm
Jun 16, 2024, 11:59 PM
There is so much joy in being Jewish!
There is so much joy in being a Jew. There is the joy that comes with purpose: the knowledge that one has been called upon to play a unique role that is exclusively theirs to play. There is the joy of...
Paul Mirbach
Jun 12, 2024, 9:12 PM
Shavuot: The Festival of Jews by Choice. A Salute.
Shavuot is my favorite chag. Every year I am amazed how viscerally I connect to the magic of it all. I am reminded of the Children of Israel from biblical times, who for seven weeks toiled arduously, in a...
Marianne Novak
Jun 4, 2024, 12:19 AM
I am Ruth
I am Ruth I am the best friend, your bff I am loyal and kind Yet I live in a land that is less so A land whose origins were sinful Yet born from women- From Lot’s brave daughters Who thought the human race was over - who...
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