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Nov 4, 2026, 9:58 PM

Chayye Sara: Mourning to Bring Peace

Chayye Sara: Mourning to Bring Peace …and Abraham expired and died at a good old age…. His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah ...and Isaac settled near Beer-la’chai Roi (Genesis 25:8-11) I write under the waning...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

A Pleasure We Share: Why a Pharaoh Appreciated God

Judaism, in every sense, encompasses so many different cultures - perhaps because what defines Jews most of all is a set of values, more so than we are a culture or a religion (when you consider the different traditions...

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Oct 25, 2026, 6:33 AM

Important Lessons from Peace Negotiations

What are the most important lessons from past Israeli–Palestinian peace negotiations? For thirteen years, I researched and wrote Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Negotiations, Mediation and Facilitation between Israel and the PLO (Cambridge University Press,...

Oct 21, 2026, 8:46 PM

The Gauntlet of Peace or Justice

Judean Hills, or Occupied West Bank? The land remains fixed even as the name changes. Picture taken by me.

There are more and less productive ways to think about the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine. This piece presents a re-framing of the dynamics at play that I believe makes things clearer and can hopefully help us all...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 21, 2026, 1:08 AM

Parashat Lech Lecha: The “Why” You Are Your Greatest Spiritual Master.

A magical characteristic of life is that even when you think your faith couldn’t possibly be stronger and is arguably the strongest in the world, it can still increase! Everyone knows about the riots in Paris that started last Saturday...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 20, 2026, 3:02 AM

Moses & YHVH Together

YHWH or YHVH is not just a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (“four letters"), it is the sacred, personal name and energy essence of the God in the Hebrew Bible: יהוה. Because ancient Hebrew, like Arabic, was written...

Oct 15, 2026, 11:41 PM

Religion fuels conflict. It can also help put it out.

Extremists aim to turn Israel-Palestine into a holy war. But Israelis and Palestinians aren't fully buying it — and people of good faith can intervene. In recent weeks, my social media feeds filled with clips of Jewish religious extremists hijacking...

Peta Jones Pellach

Oct 14, 2026, 2:42 PM

Restoring our Dignity and our Hope

On October 5th, 2023, we held a gathering of Praying Together in Jerusalem. It was the beginning of our ninth year in which Jewish, Christian, Muslim and other believers in the power of prayer met monthly to share wisdom...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 28, 2026, 4:03 AM

⁦⁧איפה משה היום?⁩ | ⁧أين موسى عليه السلام اليوم؟⁩ | Where Is Moses Today?⁩

Pharaoh’s Guide to Modern Political Leadership When you cannot answer the accusation, commission a biography of the accuser. A satire on the "modern" press "office". The first rule of machiavellian political leadership is straightforward: when someone asks what you have done,...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 22, 2026, 3:18 AM

The Civilian Black Box

The Civilian Black Box When an airliner crashes, we search for the black box. We recover the flight-data recorder. We recover the cockpit-voice recorder. Investigators reconstruct what the aircraft was doing, what its systems were doing, what the crew knew and what happened...

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