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Killing Amalek: The Torah’s Most Misunderstood Commandment

Few passages of the Torah have provoked more confusion, polemic, and misuse than the Mitzvah...

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August 27, 2026

Out-Crowleying Crowley: The Emptiness of the O9A

O9A Neo-Crowley Racial Cosplay and Edgelord Atrocitism Aleister Crowley did not create an authentically new...

August 27, 2026

Circumcision, Indigeneity and Judeophobic Cultural Hypocrisy

Few bodily practices have accumulated as many competing layers of historical meaning as circumcision. In...

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May 31, 2026

Beyond Meat: How Arabia Turned ‘Bread’ into ‘Flesh’

One of the most revealing and defining characteristics of the Semitic language family is the...

May 27, 2026

Does the Talmud Support Pedophilia? Debunking the Viral Lie

For centuries, antisemites have relied upon a remarkably consistent strategy: isolate an unfamiliar Jewish text,...

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BAMBOOZLED: No People Rise by Blaming Another People

The Lost Path of Reconstruction Before even beginning this work, I found myself unable to...

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February 10, 2026

The Quest for the Unhistorical Jesus: Parable or Biography?

The figure known in Christian tradition as “Jesus” is ordinarily approached as a recoverable historical...

February 10, 2026

The Jewish Talmud’s Four-Wife Rule Long Before the Qurʾān

Modern discussions of Qurʾānic law frequently proceed from an assumption the Qurʾān itself repeatedly repudiates:...

February 09, 2026

Arabs Called 1927 Al-Aqsa Mosque Collapse God’s Punishment

Jews and Muslims alike saw the 1927 destruction of the Temple Mount Mosque as “The...

February 03, 2026

The Messiah’s Mirror: Good Micah, Bad Micah

Across Biblical literature, Rabbinic tradition, and the Qurʾān, the most dangerous religious figure is not...

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January 07, 2026

How the Caliphate Warped Muhammad’s Verbal Islam Into a Noun

What the Qurʾān designates as “Islām” is not, in its own discursive register, a newly...

December 2025

December 12, 2025

The Rejected Rabbi Nachman, His Legacy and Predicted Return

If Breslov Chasidism today can fill stadiums, inspire global pilgrimage, and shape the devotional vocabulary...

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October 31, 2025

The Jewish Origins of Ḥajj and the Caliphate’s Appropriation

If the historical personage behind the title Muḥammad (ca. 570–632 CE) could behold what was...

October 30, 2025

The Secret of Kabbalah: The ‘World to Come’ Is Already Here!

Classical Jewish eschatology never envisioned an “end of the world,” but rather its transfiguration through...

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September 30, 2025

The Talmud Never Mentions Any Jesus Figure—Here’s the Proof

Scattered rabbinic texts mention multiple figures designated by the acronymic curse of Yeshu. But this...

September 24, 2025

Yes, the Bible Really Talks About (and Allows) Cannabis

From the dawn of human culture, psychoactive plants have mediated between the human and the...

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August 24, 2025

The Parable of the Pirate King and the Obnoxious Beggar

The following is the first part of a mashal, parabolic story, spoken recently by Rabbi...

August 15, 2025

Are Tattoos Really Forbidden by the Torah?

Many of us grew up being told by our families or congregations that the Torah...

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June 25, 2025

Art of the Double Cross: Trump’s Betrayal of Israel and Iran

This morning, headlines such as "Trump Goes Absolutely Berserk on Iran and Israel as Ceasefire...

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May 15, 2025

An Essene Midrash on the Wisdom and Compassion of King David

When most hear the term "Essene," they think of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran...

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April 24, 2025

Ayatollahs’ Secret Pedophilia Fatwah Exposed!

Imagine that one day, someone passed a law that said, “As of last week, there...

April 22, 2025

Why the Torah Really Says “God Gave Us the Land” of Israel

Zion, Justice, and the Right to Return: A Historian’s Perspective on Israel As a historian...

April 18, 2025

Is God Space-Time? Muhammad’s Assertion in Cosmic Context

Historically, humans have viewed space and time as separate and distinct entities. Space, often considered...

April 01, 2025

Muhammad Warned: Most Arabs and Muslims Will Fight the Mahdi

Since the Hamas Pogrom of October 7th, 2023, I have addressed matters related to the...

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March 15, 2025

Critical Scholarship on Islamic Origins, Shariah and Isnad

Various sources are employed in Islāmic jurisprudence to elucidate the Sharī`ah, the name which has...

March 14, 2025

The Sirah and the Quest for the Historical Muhammad

In its entry on “Muḥammad,” the Encyclopaedia of Islām cautiously explains, “the sources for the life...

March 14, 2025

Queen Esther as the “Messiah” and the “Plot Twist” of Purim

Of all the elements of the holiday Purim, there are two stand-out points that are...

March 10, 2025

Qur’anic Sabbath-Breakers as Reincarnated “Apes and Pigs”

Unveiling Qur'anic Misinterpretations: Sabbath, Origins & Truth I have already documented the widespread and deliberate...

March 04, 2025

Buddha as the “Ruler of Kapila” (Zhul Kifl) in the Qur’an

In July 1999, three years after the entry of the Taliban forces in Kabul, the...

March 01, 2025

“Resurrection” As Reincarnation in the Qur’an

In the historical study of both Islamic and Christian Origins, many early and common sectarian...

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