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  • Human (Im)Perfection: Jewish Views on Christianity and Islam

    Rabbi Allen Maller 6 October 2017

    Although basic religious values are eternal; religious communities are affected by a world that has increasingly changed over the last… read more

  • Jewish Leaders United In Rejecting Ban On Muslim Refugees

    Rabbi Allen Maller 15 February 2017

    President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees from entering the USA left most of the American Jewish community horrified —… read more

  • Two Holy Lungs Breathing Spiritual Life Worldwide

    Rabbi Allen Maller 4 January 2017

    Rabbi Allen S. Maller’s reflections for 2017 In the pagan Greco-Roman Empire during the days of Jesus, the Jerusalem Temple… read more

  • Religious Persecution Can Both Unite and Divide Religious Communities

    Abdul-Azim Ahmed 13 December 2015

    In a moving homily delivered in June 2015, the Pope described the persecution of Christians by the Islamic State and… read more

  • The Gay Rights Movement: A Jewish Perspective

    Jonathan Milevsky 5 May 2015

    In her Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich writes that God arranges that even sin will “turn out for… read more

  • Religious Pluralism is God’s Will

    Rabbi Allen Maller 5 May 2015

    Most college students have at one time or another asked, ‘If there is only one God why are there so… read more

  • Paris and the Case for Muslim Jewish Unity

    Abdul-Azim Ahmed 26 January 2015

    Abdul-Azim Ahmed believes Muslims and Jews in Europe must find a common voice against rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. There is… read more

  • Why Holocaust Memorial Day Matters

    Ishmael Cohen 27 January 2014

      Holocaust Memorial Day is held on 27th January 2014 and is only into its second decade, having been established… read more

  • The Forgotten Torah

    Abdul-Azim Ahmed 11 September 2013

    The Anglophone world has only ever been familiar with a single version of the Torah, the Masoretic. But there exists… read more

  • DNA

    Biblical Genetics

    Abdul-Azim Ahmed 2 August 2013

    Modern genetic science and Biblical history provide new ways of looking at old questions. Abdul-Azim explores how. Biblical history and… read more

  • Britain’s new Chief Rabbi

    Abdul-Azim Ahmed 24 February 2013

    Lord Jonathan Sacks’s successor has been announced, Ephraim Mirvis (pictured) will become the next Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom.… read more