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Allen S. Maller

Jun 6, 2026, 9:41 PM

A Jewish Korean Princess Rabbi

GLENN ALTSCHULE writes about the daughter of Fred Warnick, a Jewish American, and Yi Sulija, a Korean Buddhist. Angela Buchdahl, who was the first Asian American ordained as a rabbi in North America, and is the senior rabbi at...

Allen S. Maller

May 27, 2026, 2:45 AM

Converts Are God’s Gift to the Jewish People

The Hollywood Museum will host a centennial celebration honoring Marilyn Monroe, who was one of the most famous Hollywood converts to Judaism, on Tuesday evening. This could not happen in Israel where more than 580,000 Israeli citizens today are...

May 24, 2026, 12:31 AM

The Mandalorians: Jews of the Star Wars Galaxy

Mandalorian helmet from a scene in Lucasfilm's THE MANDALORIAN, season three, exclusively on Disney+. ©2023 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

This weekend marks the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars film in cinemas since 2019. To prepare, I decided to rewatch the Disney+ show, The Mandalorian. I made a jaw-dropping discovery: the titular group of...

Alexander Seinfeld

May 21, 2026, 11:37 PM

Once Upon a Time a Jew?

May 21-23, 2026 • 6-7 Sivan 5786 • Tomorrow: Shavuot (Exod 19-20); Shabbat: Naso (Num 4-7) in Israel; Shavuot II (Deut 14-16) everywhere else. + + + + + + + Shavuot—beginning tonight—is our annual occasion to revisit the meaning of "Torah" and our relationship to it. In Ramban's...

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

May 12, 2026, 12:08 AM

The Jews Who May Have Nowhere to Go

Courtesy of Catherine Perez-Shakdam

There is a comforting little fable circulating in parts of the Jewish world. You hear it at dinners, after community events, in the half-confident tone people adopt when discussing disasters they assume will happen to somebody else. If things...

Allen S. Maller

May 7, 2026, 4:30 AM

We should invite Semi Jews to join us

Marc Clamage who states: Once you go Jew, nothing else will do: believes that Islam has already absorbed Christian theology and made it their own. Jesus is featured as a prophet, Issa, who will oversee the Apocalypse, in Muslim...

Allen S. Maller

Apr 22, 2026, 6:12 AM

Only Prophet Abraham Was A Friend of God

For many centuries before Prophet Abraham, thousands of the One God’s Prophets were unable to build an ongoing monotheistic community. “The people of Noah denied before them, and the companions of the well and Thamūd; and ʿAad and Pharaoh...

Annette Poizner

Apr 14, 2026, 4:27 AM

Sparks Across Worlds: On Kabbalah, Five Elements, and the Feeling of Coming Home

There is a concept in Lurianic Kabbalah that speaks of nitzotzot: fallen sparks scattered throughout creation. These sparks are fragments of meaning, coherence, and hidden light, dispersed across the fabric of existence. The human task is not merely to observe them, but...

Allen S. Maller

Apr 12, 2026, 9:22 PM

Islam and Judaism Rise A Religious Revival In 2026

On August 2024, Gallup released a survey showing that only 54% of American adults were consuming alcohol, the lowest percentage ever recorded in the survey’s 86-year run. While the number of Americans who drink has always ebbed and flowed,...

Jacqueline Menaker

Apr 4, 2026, 8:47 AM

The Fifth Child

After discussing “the four children” during Seder last night, it occurred to me that the fifth child was missing. The fifth child is the one who is not present at the Seder table—the voice we do not hear, the story...

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