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Dr. James M. Dorsey points out in an article in the Eurasia Review (May 29,2023) that Saudi Arabia has removed anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli...
If your religion is based on a sacred scripture it is very important to have some basic knowledge of its language. This is especially true for Hindus...
The commandment against excess is one of the Ten Commandments. It doesn’t refer to the important issue of perjury, or to the trivial issue of...
Mormon members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who are taught that their spiritual ancestors were part of the ten lost tribes of...
The death toll linked to a doomsday, end-times, Christian cult in Kenya hit 201 on Saturday May 13; after police exhumed 22 more bodies, most of them...
Psalm 8 is a joyful admiration of the glory and majesty of the one and only God; and of God’s universe. It begins and ends with the acknowledgment...
William Donohue points out in an article in Eurasian Review (May 9,2023) that all recent surveys show that young people today are the loneliest people...
The ten plagues are almost as famous as the ten commandments. Yet the ten commandments, whose influence on the history of humanity is evident to this...
When the Jewish People escaped from Egypt the Torah tells us (Exodus 12:38) that an erev rav, a mixed multitude of other people, also escaped with...
Polytheistic religions are mainly focused on the many activities of the various Gods which are either timeless as in Egypt, or are measured in vast...
The Temple of Artemis was a temple dedicated to Artemis completed in its most famous phase, around 550 BCE at Ephesus (about 50 km south of the modern...
In his Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte, the great scholar Rabbi Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) states: “The Ishmaelites are not idol worshippers in...
I was surprised to see a police car parked in front of my congregation on the last Sunday of February, 2023 as I entered the Temple to teach an...
Both Judaism and Islam teach their followers to take care of the earth. Muslims and Jews also believe that humans should act as guardians, or...
I first studied Islam when I was a student at UCLA more than 62 years ago, Then again, a couple of years later, while I was a student in a Reform...
The Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama believes it is essential to the well-being of Muslims to develop a new vision capable of replacing the...
The United Nations General Assembly on October 20, 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as an Interfaith Harmony Week for all...
Einstein never had his bar mitzvah but the theory of relativity has been confirmed over and over again. Einstein called the notion of quantum...
As early as the second century CE Rabbi Joshua protested: “The Torah is not in heaven!” (Deuteronomy 30:12). We pay no attention to a divine voice...
With a new ultra-orthodox, super nationalist government officially empowered in Israel, millions of Israelis feel liberal democracy is dangerously...
If you think things are looking bad in Israel, look at the rest of the world. This year for the first time ever, over 100 million people worldwide...
World temperatures are rising because of human activity, and climate change now threatens every aspect of human life. Left unchecked, humans and...
Most people ask for God’s blessings. Jews bless God for giving them opportunities to praise God by doing something God want’s done, like...
Judaism denies the dogma of original sin. Rosh Hashanah precedes Yom Kippur because our Jewish commitment to free will and the human ability to choose...
The story of the Hasmonean (or “Maccabean”) revolt is preserved in 1 and 2 Maccabees—two very different books, in style, content, views and...
On each day of Hanukah, the Festival of Freedom, I think of the many desperate Tunisians who set themselves on fire in an act of protest, following...
Why do Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles contain two different books about the historical events that led to the Jewish festival of Hanukah,...
When Jews celebrate Hanukah (December 18-25), in 2022 I hope that both Jews and Muslims will also remember all oppressed religious communities, such...
This Hanukah let us remember that Hanukah started with a religious miracle and ended with failed political leaders and policies. Hanukah begins with...
Unlike Ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel, Reform Judaism Conversion is not discouraging, although unlike Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, Judaism in...
Is it just a coincidence that both Prophet Jesus, the last of the Jewish descendants from Prophet Abraham; and Prophet Muhammad, the last of the...
Most religions have long stressed the virtue of daily expressions of gratitude to God. The Qur’an states that Prophet Sulaiman said: “. . ....