Author: Rabbi Allen S Maller

MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT Allah’s Prophet was a messenger for all nations—and not just for the polytheistic Arabs of Arabia alone, nor even for all the other polytheistic nations throughout the world: We have not sent you but as an unequaled mercy for…

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S executive order banning refugees from entering the USA left much of the American Jewish community horrified — particularly as the announcement came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the American ‘Union of Reform Jews,’…

In the Greek and Roman Empires, the Jerusalem Temple (Beit HaMikdosh) and the Ka’bah, the House of God (Baitullah) in Mecca were not as well known as the giant pagan Temples of Greece and Rome. Yet just a few centuries after the…

Long before Da’esh (“Islamic State”) began murdering tens of thousands of woman and children in order to establish God’s right order in the world, Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073-1085) got the massacre ball rolling. Upon assuming the papacy in 1073, Pope Gregory…