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Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 27, 2026, 9:44 PM

Sleep and Resurrection

According to the Julian calendar, the Orthodox Church enters these days (26.08.28) into the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (Lay Mary). At the end of summer, after the brightness of the Transfiguration, another mystery is...

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

Aug 27, 2026, 3:25 PM

At the Table, Not Under the Canopy

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The Bride, the Friends, and Those Left in the Outer Darkness There is a primary, undeniable romance running like a golden thread through the Hebrew Scriptures: Hashem is the Husband, and Israel is His Bride. Every covenantal mechanism, every boundary stone,...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Aug 26, 2026, 8:48 PM

Secret Sins (Ki Tavo)

"Secret Sins" (AI image by author)

“The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.” —Thomas Hobbes There is a special place in Jewish theology for the secret sinner. Moses commands the people of...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:28 PM

The doors I wish we could keep open

Illustrative: Hoboken Police officers stand watch outside the United Synagogue of Hoboken, Nov. 3, 2022, in Hoboken, N.J. (AP Photo/Ryan Kryska, File)

Each year, as we get closer to the High Holy Days, our choir and musicians rehearse at a nearby church while our synagogue is being prepared for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Our music director has a key to...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:22 PM

Why Do We Need A Jewish State? Insights from Parashat Ki Tavo

Why do the Jewish people need a sovereign state? Modern Zionism offered several powerful answers to that question. Political Zionism, most famously associated with Theodor Herzl, argued that Jews needed a state because Jewish life in the Diaspora had become politically...

Richard H. Schwartz

Aug 26, 2026, 8:16 PM

Summer of 2026 – ClimateCode Red for Humanity?

While it's not over yet, as I write this in late August 2026, this summer has already delivered a series of stark reminders that climate change is not a distant threat but a present reality. While no single weather...

Aug 26, 2026, 9:47 AM

If the West Falls, the Planet Will Follow: Cambridge and the Woke Agenda

The death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday should indeed be a reason for reflection, as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said. Reflection, however, should mean that we resist both the sanctification of Arday and his complete condemnation. We do not...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 26, 2026, 4:52 AM

Tens Of Thousands Of Allah’s Prophets and 99.9 % Failed

Islam teaches that thousands of Prophets were inspired by the one and only God; and sent to the whole of mankind in different lands and at different times. One popular version in a hadith puts the number of prophets...

Aug 25, 2026, 6:11 PM

Koren’s New Siddur

The Hebrew word Siddur means “order.” It is the Jewish prayer book designed for ordinary weekdays and Shabbat. Its purpose is to give Jewish worship a regular order, language, and structure. It includes biblical passages, blessings, the Shema, the...

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