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Reuven Chaim Klein

May 17, 2025, 11:05 PM

Mammon, Blood Money, and Movable Money

Even though back in ancient times, they may not have had all the complex financial instruments that we use nowadays, people were certainly well-aware of the concept of “money,” and its use as legal tender. In this essay, we...

Alexandre Gilbert

May 14, 2025, 9:34 PM

John D. Caputo Interview | Alex Gilbert #274

John D. Caputo (copyright authorized)

John David Caputo is an American philosopher known for his work in continental philosophy and postmodern theology. He is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova...

Allen S. Maller

May 9, 2025, 12:17 PM

Torah’s Galaxy Formation from First to Last

At first there was nothing: no energy or matter, no change or time, no life, no love, no evolution, no light and darkness, no relationships; no feelings, no thoughts nothing as all: except the One of potentials; and then...

May 5, 2025, 5:36 AM

The Man Beneath the Cross, or the Jerusalem Pope

It is possible that in the not-so-distant future, the Catholic Church will, for the first time in its history, choose a pope from Jerusalem. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (the highest-ranking Vatican official in the Holy...

Apr 24, 2025, 7:09 PM

The Holocaust and Parshat Shemini

We almost always read parshat shemini during the period of tragedy and transition from Passover to Yom Hashoah, and Yom Hazikaron. We often ask ourselves what is the “right” reaction to unfair tragedy. We usually try to assign meaning to...

Allen S. Maller

Apr 23, 2025, 1:07 PM

The Wisdom of an Unlimited Ongoing Names of God

The Jewish tradition is like a spring that gives forth an ongoing profusion of names for God. The Hebrew Bible contains dozens of different names for the One God, and rabbinic literature adds another 90+ names, most coming from...

Apr 21, 2025, 4:20 PM

The Tupamaro pope is dead, the damage endures

The Vatican’s most political pontiff since the days of the Borgia has died. Pope Francis, a man who preferred gestures to theology and ideology to liturgy, leaves behind a Church hollowed out in doctrine, distracted by activism, and all...

Allen S. Maller

Apr 9, 2025, 9:53 PM

Tawhid: Promote Religious Pluralism for a Religious Revival

The first quarter of the 21st century saw a major rise in the number of people in the USA who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” which now stands at 26% of the total...

Apr 9, 2025, 8:50 PM

Book review – Derech Ha’Ir: The Halachos of Facing Yerushalayim

Rabbenu Chaim Cohen, a student of Rabbenu Tam, famously said in Ketubot 110b, "Now it is not a mitzvah to reside in Israel because there are several mitzvahs dependent on the land and several punishments that we cannot be...

Michael McCloskey

Apr 8, 2025, 11:51 PM

Straighten Up and Fly Right: A Torah of Sanctuary

Ezekiel's bearing witness to the merkavah, the moveable sanctuary

I live in Boston, a sanctuary city. My children attend a public dual-language school. Recently, the neighborhood where their school is located, which has a very large and thriving Latinx population, was targeted by ICE agents, and the school...

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