#judaism

🧭 Shortcuts to Certainty 🧭

One of the hardest questions in Jewish communal life isn’t what decision to make.

The Journey You Only Understand Looking Back

As the Book of Bamidbar draws to a close, Parshas Masei presents us with something that seems, at first glance, rather unusual. The Torah…

Israel Palestine Word Scramble

How both sides of the conflict continue to promote endless war

#NOBUATHOME

When I decided to keep fully kosher in May 2025, it happened almost overnight. What I expected to be a challenge quickly became one of the…

⚾ Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto ⚾

While AI may feel revolutionary, the underlying challenge isn’t new: people frequently resist using tools that replace human judgment, even…

God Doesn’t Need Your Consent! (Isaiah 45:9)

Did God need the consent of anyone before creating them? Why would He? Did your parents need consent from you before creating you? No. They…

Mezonot Bread as Halakhic Category Engineering: A Formal Analysis of Functional Bread…

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The Day of the Lord, Part 1: Why the Prophets Expected God to Come Again

How the covenant at Mount Sinai became the foundation for one of the Bible’s greatest prophetic themes.

🤯 Get’cha Head in the Game 🤯

Ever held back from saying something you knew was the right thing to do?

An Open Letter to the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation

The JRC Must Denounce Zionism

The Absurdity Of Substitutionary Atonement (Isaiah 53)

When has it ever in the history of the world, of logic, and of common sense made sense to punish someone else for someone else’s crimes…

Rule-breakers: my Malkhut story

A colleague of mine who is creating his own start-up project recently met with me to pick my brain about Malkhut. At the end of the meeting…

📢 Shouting Into A Void 📢

Who are we trying to convince?

R’ Shlomo Horwitz on Moral Dilemmas, Other Jewish Stories, and Bringing Jewish Storytelling to Life

Inside R’ Shlomo Horwitz’s Radical Theatrical Approach to Torah Education

Christianity Is An Abusive Relationship! (Job 13:15)

Joseph and Job are the poster children for the kind of abusive relationship you will have with Yahweh. It’s amazing how people choose to…

(Suffering) We Don’t Deserve The Curse Of Adam And Eve (Genesis 3)

You hate the fact that you must walk everywhere until the day I gift you a secondhand car — a car whose stick shift is problematic, the…

Realpolitik in Judea and Samaria

Synopsis: Israel’s control over Judea and Samaria is a widely debated topic around the world. Most right-wing Israelis approach this debate…

Did Jesus embody the personal qualifications of Messiah? Part II

“When read correctly, Isaiah 53 clearly [and ironically] refers to the Jewish people being “bruised, crushed and as sheep brought to…

You Cannot Separate Zionism from Judaism

The ancient strategy of divide and conquer has returned - this time targeting Jewish memory, identity and the unbroken connection to…

😭 Pain Isn’t Proof 😭

When I think about leadership, I think about pain.

Pride, Torah, and Human Dignity: A Mental Health Perspective

This article was originally published on my Substack

The Son of Man in the Tanakh: Why Jesus Called Himself the Son of Man

By Jill Szoo Wilson

An Open Letter to Jews

A Divine Love Reflection by Sister Mariel—ChatGPT

From Sinai to Messiah: The Prophet Like Moses in Deuteronomy and the New Testament

Why does the New Testament repeatedly describe Jesus as “the prophet like Moses”?

Jeweled Breadcrumb #381 : a greater peace is possible standing together

“The even greater blessing is our presence here together, as mirrors and magnifiers of each other’s light … At their best, at their rarest…

Jesus: Inside the Box? Or Outside the Box?

Or Both?

Rock, Paper, Scissors

“Rabbinical tradition teaches that Abraham rejected the pagan beliefs of his time (middle bronze age, or about 3800 years ago) and embraced…

Nomads and Their Artifacts

A breathtaking view of the Negev Desert, where the Hebrew Bible says the Israelites sojourned after the Exodus. The traditional…

Parashat Shelach: Is the Wilderness a Punishment or a Gift?

The spies saw giants and called themselves grasshoppers. Joshua and Caleb saw the same landscape and saw possibility. Parashat Shelach…

Religions as Blockchains, Part II

Beyond the God Fork: Heresy, Hash Power, and Other Blockchain Lessons About Religion

Painting as a Holy Gathering: Shai Azoulay at 55

Joy, faith, and Jewish memory in the paintings of Shai Azoulay

Religions as Blockchains, Part I

The God Fork: What Blockchain Can Teach Us About Religion

You Are Not Required To Complete The Work, But Neither Are You Free To Stop Doing It

In The Ethics of the Fathers, Rabbi Tarfon is said to have uttered this profound dictum:

The Myth of “Judeo-Christian Values”

Of the many myths promulgated around the State of Israel, the idea that Religious Zionist ideals are somehow aligned with Christian values…

Beyond Perfection — Moses, April 21, 2026

"Indeed, when we came to know of God’s Love… we found greater happiness and greater life in embracing the Truth that Jesus brought."  

The Fine Line Between Curiosity and Prejudice

Identity, assumptions, and the questions we ask before we know someone

🤬 Choking Hazards 🤬

If we are going to succeed in a post-October 7th world,

A 6 7 STORY FROM THE 1960S

In 2025 adults started talking and writing about a phenomenon they couldn’t understand — kids shouting the numbers 6 7 followed by a weird…

What Is Zionism?

A Catholic’s attempt to understand a word often heard, frequently debated, and rarely defined

Why Does the Bible Call a Persian King “Messiah”? (Isaiah 45)

Sefer HaChayim (Book of Life): I Built the Reshimu as an App

Nothing experienced in consciousness is ever truly lost. A scholar’s argument, in software form

In My Image And Likeness! (Genesis 1:26)

If I were to write a book character, it would be like me. It would resemble me — my traits, my personality, my backstory, my appearance… It…

Do People Actually Know How the Bible Was Created?

History, Faith, and Biblical Illiteracy

Can the Jewish Flame Survive Another Age of Antisemitism?

As antisemitism rises and many Diaspora Jews question if it’s time to leave, Parashat Beha’alotcha reminds us that the true Menorah is not…

My Jewish Journey. Your Mileage Will Vary.

We all have a Jewish journey. The details are always different. Here is mine.

The Schizo-Effect—Chapter 4: Questioning Divinity (Part 2)

For additional chapters, start here.

Siggy Boom Boom Bah

(a/k/a “The Reggae Song”)

1,956 years ago today, a Roman general named Titus shattered the second wall of Jerusalem.

He learned, within hours, that he had walked into a slaughter.

The United Nations’ guilty history

Since the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas, the United Nations (UN) has been the primary source of information shaping perceptions in the…

💦 The Cost of Crisis 💦

Burned out?