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Allen S. Maller

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Good news from Saudi Arabia and Rabbi Allen Maller

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...

29.05.2023 20

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Allen S. Maller

In the wilderness of Sinai and Maine USA

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...

26.05.2023 6

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What is wrong about doing too much religion?

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...

25.05.2023 20

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Making conversion to Judaism difficult is a very terrible Sin

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...

20.05.2023 20

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Allen S. Maller

Are End-Times beliefs good news or bad news?

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...

16.05.2023 20

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Prophet David’s Zabur Psalm 8 and Climate Change

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...

13.05.2023 40

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All the lonely people where do they all come from?

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...

11.05.2023 40

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Allen S. Maller

Were the Ten Plagues miracles?

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...

07.04.2023 20

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THE EREV RAV: then and now

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...

06.04.2023 20

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Biblical generations, timeless religions and religious calendars

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...

06.03.2023 10

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Purim and the Miracle of Jewish History

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...

05.03.2023 10

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Are Muslim claims of Falsified Scriptures just Various Versions

In his Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte, the great scholar Rabbi Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) states: “The Ishmaelites are not idol worshippers in...

04.03.2023 10

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A Jewish Soul Comes Home Overcoming Fear

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...

02.03.2023 5

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Can the Jewish Messiah and the Muslim Mahdi Come Too Late To A Super Hot Planet?

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...

19.02.2023 20

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Prophet Muhammad and Reform Judaism

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...

17.02.2023 10

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Power tends to corrupt; and religious power tends to corrupt religiously

The Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama believes it is essential to the well-being of Muslims to develop a new vision capable of replacing the...

09.02.2023 5

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Allen S. Maller

The Kaab’a And The Temple Mount Are Linked By Holiness

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...

01.02.2023 20

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Allen S. Maller

Einstein never had his bar mitzvah, but relativity has been repeatedly confirmed

Einstein never had his bar mitzvah but the theory of relativity has been confirmed over and over again. Einstein called the notion of quantum...

31.01.2023 10

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Power Corrupts and Religious Power Faithfully Corrupts – Part 2

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...

28.01.2023 10

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Power Corrupts and Religious Power Faithfully Corrupts – Part 1

With a new ultra-orthodox, super nationalist government officially empowered in Israel, millions of Israelis feel liberal democracy is dangerously...

27.01.2023 20

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Faithful hope for a more positive future in spite of Netanyahu’s new government

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...

19.01.2023 10

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Tu B’shevat Seders and Reform Judaism

World temperatures are rising because of human activity, and climate change now threatens every aspect of human life. Left unchecked, humans and...

16.01.2023 10

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Others ask for God’s blessings, so why do Jews bless God?

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...

03.01.2023 9

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New Year resolutions and why Rosh HaShanah precedes Yom Kippur

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...

28.12.2022 5

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Hanukah’s two viewpoints then and now

The story of the Hasmonean (or “Maccabean”) revolt is preserved in 1 and 2 Maccabees—two very different books, in style, content, views and...

26.12.2022 7

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Hanukah And Islam’s Religious Pluralism

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...

24.12.2022 5

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Hanukah and minorities repressed by a harsh government

Why do Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles contain two different books about the historical events that led to the Jewish festival of Hanukah,...

21.12.2022 20

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Hanukah hopes for Iran’s Brave Women

When Jews celebrate Hanukah (December 18-25), in 2022 I hope that both Jews and Muslims will also remember all oppressed religious communities, such...

20.12.2022 20

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Hanukah, the Hasmoneans, and the Qur’an on Killing Prophets

This Hanukah let us remember that Hanukah started with a religious miracle and ended with failed political leaders and policies. Hanukah begins with...

17.12.2022 10

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Allen S. Maller

Unlike Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism Conversion Is Not Hard

Unlike Ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel, Reform Judaism Conversion is not discouraging, although unlike Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, Judaism in...

12.12.2022 10

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Allen S. Maller

From first to last of the Abrahamic Prophets: Abraham to Muhammad

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...

30.11.2022 7

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Science discovers a new religious truth for Thanksgiving Day: Gratitude

Most religions have long stressed the virtue of daily expressions of gratitude to God. The Qur’an states that Prophet Sulaiman said: “. . ....

22.11.2022 6

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