Validating the historicity of events within Torah is totally *unnecessary*. Yet, at the same time, the singular historical event that validates Torah is *obvious*! The entire Torah was written in Moab and Judea-Samaria. D’varim clearly establishes that Israel and, by survival default, the Jewish people established the Covenant vassal treaty Read more…
Folks, size really does matter in some cases. Israel’s size is an example to the world! 8,630 square miles does NOT equal 87,800 square miles! Can we agree upon this?! Okay, let me explain: Let this sink in for a moment! The total size of “Native American” USA federally recognized Read more…
In the United States of (the continent that European colonizers named) “America,” there is a phenomena occuring among Ashkenazi Jews. A splitting between Jews who are still clinging to our Indigenous ways of life, identity, and Zionism and Jews who have internalized the Colonizer’s culture, politics, and (sadly) European views Read more…
When I go onto a Jewish social site – say the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, Facts and Logic About the Middle East, Israel Advocacy Movement, Stand With Us, TheTorah, etc. – I come into the discussion with all my cards on the table, from which Read more…
Stories, they do clarify everything! ———— This is where I stand in life. I don’t *believe* in “God.” Anyone who has to believe in something knows nothing. I *know* that our ancestral YHWH god exists. How do I know this? Our ancestral YHWH god exists in our Jewish people’s Torah. Read more…
All Indigenous Peoples have origin stories that give us identity as a people. The Jewish indigenous story is the following (as this Rabbi so eloquently shared it in such simple words, so please listen!): “When God created Adam and Eve, God gave them a religion. The religion was seven commandments Read more…
Those who are part of the non-Indigenous world of humans look upon the Jewish people’s ANE inherited writings, our scrolls of TaNaKh, as a historical document of factual events about the BCE period (by which certain of their universal religions are based upon). Knowing this, any Jew knowledgeable in these Read more…
Quite too often even Jews get the Maccabees confused with the Hasmoneans. The former represents warriors for both Judean sovereignty and Judaic survival. The latter, the family Dynasty, represents only Judean interests. Another way of saying this is that the Maccabees fought for Judaism – Jewish-People-ism – and the Hasmoneans Read more…
Tomorrow will be the 400th day of Thanksgiving for some and day of Mourning for others. Both will have family meals, but for *very different* reasons! Where should the Jewish people fit into this “American” social narrative? Here are some of my thoughts to consider, along with the thoughts of Read more…
Some thoughts for “American” rabbis and Jews: I feel sorry for and am deeply saddened by USA Jews who feel the need to make nice-nice with historically naive Christians for the sake of our people’s survival. For they are *not* helping to bring truth and peace into this world, by Read more…