It is often said that Jews were monotheistic even in the BCE period. Yet, historically, this is not true! The BCE Jewish pantheon was comprised of no less than five gods and goddesses, regularly invoked by ANE Jews. But, the scribal priests tried their very best to turn Jews into Read more…
First, a clarity on definitions: There is religious Zionism, which all Jews from Mizrahi to Sephardi to Ashkenazi and etc. support and has always sought for the reestablishment of the nation-State of Israel on our ancestral Judean lands. There is also political Zionism born out of 19th century European Jewish Read more…
If I were President of the USA, this is what I would say at the end of EVERY publicly made address: “May all the gods, goddesses, and no-gods of this nation’s citizens bless this United States! May we stand together as citizens, as one nation under the Constitution of the Read more…
The First Peoples of this continent – that white Christian colonizers named “America” – believed that no one owns the land. But, this did not stop them, the indigenous, from fighting for the right to live freely and peacefully within their ancestral places. To oppose the white Christian colonizer, and Read more…
Many people who have not read the Torah law codes in the Hebrew and in historical context do not realize how progressive these laws actually were. D’varim’s Torah (Deuteronomy) supports a scientific view over “dark ages” ignorance, embracing ethics and rejecting pseudoscience by established national laws. And D’varim’s Torah is Read more…
If Israel built a 100 foot high wall around herself and put her military within these walls, Palestine would still *not* be free! Why? Because Palestine has *never* been free. If Israel were to be like North Korea – isolated and seperated from the rest of the world – the Read more…
The answer in life is never to ignore, but to address with openness and honesty. Allow me, please, to show you what I mean. More recent social media posts. ————- As someone whose Great-grandparents had familial ties to the Satmar community, I so get this statement by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen! Read more…
Here is an example of how Jews embracing Rabbinic halacha are not to treat less observant or differently believing Jews: So Rabbi Meir Porush says that Jews who are not religious in his way of being religious are comparable to “pigs.” This right here is why most Jews reject halachic Read more…
This is where “non-religious” Jews – like Paul Golin, Executive Director of Society for Humanistic Judaism (though I don’t understand why they keep him!) – really *fail* their Jewish communities, and so sadly so! Within this JWeekly opinion piece, he laments the perceived treatment of “non-religious” (aka, “secular”) Jews. In Read more…
My wife doesn’t realize how so Orthodox Jewish her thinking is. Her number one complaint with me is that she just can’t understand how I can be a godless religious Jew. Meaning, that I am religiously Jewish, but non-theistically. For her, without the belief in the “god” part, why should Read more…