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May 30, 2026, 12:32 AM

Shalom Brothers: Suspicion Is Not Love (Naso)

Parashat Naso contains one of the most difficult passages in the Torah: the ritual of the Sotah, the woman suspected of adultery. There is no way to make this text easy. A husband is overcome by jealousy. He suspects his...

May 27, 2026, 3:51 PM

A Jewish Welcome to Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on artificial intelligence and the human person, was released on May 25. Magnifica Humanitas asks whether the age of artificial intelligence will become another Tower of Babel or a city in which the dignity...

May 20, 2026, 3:21 PM

What Torah will we receive this year?

At the Hannaton Educational Center. (courtesy)

We must choose the Torah that perceives Divinity throughout the world and not one that teaches contempt for everything that is not Jewish

May 20, 2026, 9:18 AM

A Proud Judaism is the Response to Islamophobia

Judaism and Islam

As Jews we must condemn attacks like those we saw at the San Diego Islamic Center the other day in the strongest terms. I certainly condemn them as an affront to God, Jewish values, and our social compact as...

May 18, 2026, 4:41 AM

H-Interfaith: The Global Academic Interfaith Space

The article, ‘Interfaith work has failed—we need to move to action’, published two months ago in Church Times, merits careful attention because it identifies a central weakness in contemporary interfaith practice: dialogue remains important, but it has proved insufficient...

Allen S. Maller

May 13, 2026, 4:12 AM

Armageddon Is Bad, Mahdi Is Good and Messiah’s Word’s Are Wonderful

The three monotheistic Abrahamic religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great wonders of the beginning of a new world. The Prophets of the Hebrew Bible started the...

Peta Jones Pellach

May 6, 2026, 12:57 AM

When a nun is knocked down in Jerusalem’s Old City, help her!

Still from footage that shows a nun being assaulted by a man in Jerusalem on April 28, 2026, released by the police two days later. (Israel Police)

Violence against Christians and Muslims, and the silence surrounding it, is corroding the very Jewish values we claim to defend

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Apr 27, 2026, 7:36 AM

New Videos Inspire Hope & Action Through Faith

In a time of rising multiple challenges, many people are searching for both solutions and meaning. A new series of short videos from Rabbi Yonatan Neril and the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) is offering both—by drawing on the...

Menachem Creditor

Apr 23, 2026, 8:24 PM

Testimony and Presence on Long Island: A Yom HaShoah Reflection

JCRC-LI/Congregation Shaaray Shalom Holocaust Remembrance Service, April 19, 2026 (photo: Raya Creditor)

I am still sitting with the strangeness of it. I stood as keynote speaker at a Yom HaShoah VeHaGevurah commemoration on Long Island, the place of my childhood, and I am not a survivor. I am not the child of...

Austin Reid Albanese

Apr 19, 2026, 9:18 AM

What West Bloomfield Revealed About Michigan’s Interfaith Tradition

A newspaper rendering of the mosque built in Highland Park, Michigan in 1921, widely reported at the time as the first purpose-built mosque in the United States.

In March, after an anti-Jewish attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a ballroom across the street became a place of refuge. The Shenandoah Country Club, which serves the area’s Chaldean Iraqi Christian community, opened its doors to the Temple...

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