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Allen S. Maller

Jun 25, 2026, 8:57 PM

Prophets Jacob and Moses vs. Pharaoh Merneptah

Exodus 12:42 states; “Because the Lord kept a vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep a vigil to honor the Lord for generations to come.” And Psalm 105:1-2...

Richard Diamond

Jun 24, 2026, 8:54 PM

The Deterioration of American Jewry’s Unconditional Solidarity with Israel

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The Grief of Estrangement There is a particular kind of grief that has no clean name — the grief of loving something so completely that you never thought to examine the conditions of that love, until the day you realize...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 19, 2026, 6:37 PM

Gilgul: Conversion Often Is Becoming Jewish Again

Most people know that in Orthodox Jewish Law: if the mother is Jewish, the children are Jewish; if only the father is Jewish, the children are not Jewish. Why is it that Jewish women can make Jews; and Jewish...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 15, 2026, 4:44 AM

Recycling Jewish Souls Coming Home

A rather unusual form of evidence for reincarnation comes from the Jewish mystical tradition; the Kabbalah. Unlike Buddhism and Hinduism, Kabbalah does not teach that reincarnation (gilgul) occurs over the course of millions of years to millions of different...

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...

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