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Oct 16, 2026, 3:32 AM

God Will Not Save You

The first article in this series presents a tale of two biblical visions. The first vision is Daniel 7, an Aramaic-language apocalypse and a key foundation of Christian belief. The second is Daniel 8, a Hebrew-language vision with a...

Abdiqani A. Aden

Oct 16, 2026, 12:14 AM

The Letter From Hargeisa: Egal’s 1995 Appeal to Israel

The four-page letter dated 3 July 1995, attributed to Somaliland President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal and addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, proposing a strategic partnership between Somaliland and Israel. The copy reproduced here is held in the author’s historical archive. Egal reportedly denied authorship before his death, and the document’s authorship and delivery to Israel remain unverified.

Courtesy of Keydka Cabdiqani C. Aadan (Historical Archive).

In 1995, Somaliland’s president asked Israel for a “strategic partnership.” Thirty years later, Israel recognised the country. The letter explains much about the logic, and almost nothing about the cause. On 3 July 1995, a letter was prepared at the...

Oct 15, 2026, 7:03 AM

Countdown to the Destruction of Jerusalem

The chronology of Daniel 9:24–27 sets the fulfillment of Daniel 8:9–12 in AM 3830 = 69/70 CE. The computation is straightforward, and the resulting date permits a single historical interpretation of the vision: the destruction of the Second Temple...

Oct 15, 2026, 2:35 AM

The Echoes of the Shofar: Why the 2020s Are Beginning to Look Dangerously Like the 1920s

I wasn't around in the 1920s to witness what was beginning to happen in Europe. I arrived on the scene a little later—in the spring of 1941—when much of what had been brewing during those earlier years was reaching...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 14, 2026, 8:21 PM

Stop Lying: The West Bank Is Not Occupied

The term “Jew” derives from Yehuda, the biblical kingdom whose heartland comprised the rugged hill country of Judea and Samaria, or as the European globalists love to call it: the West Bank. Throughout these ridges, scripture anchors the foundational...

Sarah Ansbacher

Oct 14, 2026, 2:31 PM

East of Eden and north of Jaffa: John Steinbeck’s hope

East of Eden. Promotional still courtesy of Netflix. Used for illustrative review and commentary purposes under Fair Use.

The author's 19th century ancestors moved to the holy land to help teach the Jewish community to farm. I found traces of them in Tel Aviv – and on Netflix

Oct 13, 2026, 7:59 AM

Seeing Red: Hubris and the Halakha of Space Flight

Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, photo: Nadav Efrati / Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nahum_Eliezer_Rabinovitch

Vladimir Menshikov, Boga Nyet! [There is no God!], 1975. State Museum of the History of Religion in Saint Petersburg. Scaled-down, low-resolution image permitted under fair use clause, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82_1975.jpg

In 1961, as humans reached Space, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994) wrote a private letter in which he declared that Space travel was permitted according to Jewish law. The Lubavitcher Rebbe offered a broad, affirmative framework for...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Oct 11, 2026, 6:36 AM

Touchdowns, Railroad Barons, and Blood Atonement

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Fighting Irish rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. On October 10, 2026, they wore gold helmets, and… they kicked Stanford's teeth in, 58–7. Grantland Rice...

George Theodoridis

Oct 7, 2026, 9:52 PM

Marco Rubio in Athens

On 6-7 October 2026 US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, travelled to Greece in the context of the round of the US-Greece Strategic Dialogue. The highlight of his presence in Athens was his speech in Pnyx...

Oct 6, 2026, 3:34 PM

The Heavens Belong to God: May a Jew Leave Earth?

Apollo 8 Flight Plan, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-apollo-8-delivered-moment-christmas-eve-peace-and-understanding-world-180976431/
Overlaid with astronaut:, stock photography licensed via Canva

Early Space exploration precipitated an interest in how Jewish law might be kept beyond the confines of planet Earth. Before asking how Halakha could be observed in Space, we need to return to an earlier question: whether humans may...

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