Rabbi Allen S Maller, Author at AlJumuah Magazine

Why an Arabian Jewish King Did not Destroy an Idol-Filled Building in Makkah

(Aljumuah offers our series of articles by Reform Jewish Rabbi, Allen S. Maller, as a bridge-building effort to promote good relations among Jewish and Muslim communities. We share much in common due to the same source of our prophets and the revelations…

The Battle of Uhud: Why Would Rabbi Mukhayriq Fight and Die for Prophet Muhammad?

IBN ISHAQ, THE earliest biographer of Prophet Muhammad, relates an amazing story about Rabbi Mukhayriq, a wealthy and learned leader of the tribe of Tha‘labah, a Jewish tribe allied with one of the three major Jewish tribes that had lived in Madinah…

Laylat Al-Qadr & Shavuot: Ramadan’s Trans-Historical Revelations

((Aljumuah offers our series of articles by Reform Jewish Rabbi, Allen S. Maller, as a bridge-building effort to promote good relations among Jewish and Muslim communities. We share much in common due to the same source of our prophets and the…

Muhammad: Allah’s Prophet for Reform Judaism

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…

Two Holy Places: Brothers Sharing God’s Blessings

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…

Do Jews Worship Ezra?

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…