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Aug 16, 2026, 12:39 AM

AI and Teaching Jewish Civilization: Is an Enemy Needed?

Teaching Jewish Civilization

The Argument That Needs an Enemy: What happens when you forbid a machine to mention our enemies by Joe Nalven, with Claude Dara Horn reports that most American students, if they learn about Jews at all, learn only that Jews were...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 11, 2026, 10:43 AM

Do not take God’s 99 names in vain

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” I think of this statement whenever I hear of suicide bombers targeting another group of innocent civilians. I think, and I shudder, because...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 9, 2026, 6:36 AM

Egypt Did It All And We Are Still Here

The traditional Hebrew text of the Bible states that 70 members of Prophet Jacob’s family went down to Egypt (Genesis 46:27, Exodus 1:5). The ancient Greek translation (the Septuagint) and Stephen's speech in the New Testament Book of Acts...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 8, 2026, 1:03 AM

Khalifa Is Not Greed and Pollution

“And it is He (God) who has made you that He may test you through what He has given you. Indeed, your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, Forgiving and Merciful.” (Qur’an 6:165) In Arabic the word for...

Aug 6, 2026, 9:14 AM

At Eighty-Three: Choose Life, Not Certainty

When I turned eighty, I wrote that it was a moment of truth. Today I turn eighty-three. What is different this time? At eighty-three, the truth is harder—and less comforting. This is the first birthday I I am spending without...

Aug 5, 2026, 6:28 AM

Does a Heavenly Temple Replace the Earthly Avodah?

The claim moves quietly through communities that love the Hebrew Scriptures. The earthly Temple, they hear, was only a shadow. The real altar stands in Heaven. The real high priest serves there. The real and final cleansing happens above....

Allen S. Maller

Aug 4, 2026, 6:01 AM

Jewish Wisdom stories retold by Rabbi Allen S. Maller

The Seer of Lublin was one of the most famous and formidable of the Hassidic Rabbis at the end of the 18th century. His greatest disciple (who had exactly the same name as his master) was called the Yehudi...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 3, 2026, 6:27 PM

Abraham’s Three Ongoing Religions

Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram, on the Islamic lunar calendar of 1448. Ashura for 2026 was observed on sundown of June 25th ending at sundown on June 26th. The day commemorates for Shia Muslims the...

Aug 3, 2026, 6:52 AM

Creativity: What Machines Lack Is Not Ecstasy But a Field to Play Against

Breaking Through

By Joe Nalven + Opus 5 + Gemini Machines have already been creative, and it is worth being precise about where. In 2016, a Go program played a move in the second game of its match against Lee Sedol that professionals...

Aug 2, 2026, 9:43 AM

Babel in the Nine Days

The Sanhedrin's written ruling is dated 6 Menachem Av. Hold that date for a moment before anything else. Three days before Tisha B'Av. Inside the nine days when we do not build, do not celebrate, do not so much as...

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