Some interesting conclusions of the mainstream research nowadays: During the period that religions attribute to the Exodus – Egypt ruled Israel. The story of Goliath describes ancient Greek armor. The Hebrew ‘Elohim’ and Jehovah/Yahweh were originally two different gods. Some passages from the Psalms are taken from ancient Phoenician texts. The Book of Isaiah was […]

According to Orthodox Judaism, the presence of a red cow announces the coming of the Messiah. Not just any red cow – it is supposed to meet several detailed criteria, according to the orthodox Jewish law. Entire chapters have been dedicated in the Jewish sources to describing these criteria, which include specific details regarding the […]

THIS was published here a while ago. Due to current news it’s being mentioned again.

Well… not the famous Christian thing you may have thought of. This time we will discuss another Holy Trinity. In one corner of this triangle, we find the Muslims. They believe that Muhammad traveled overnight from Mecca to Jerusalem, to the Temple Mount, and later also rode a horse from there to heaven to meet […]

There is currently a huge debate in Israel about an issue that has great potential to bring down the government: The obligatory army service (conscription) of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a.k.a. “Haredim”. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel do not currently enlist in the IDF, while the conscription law applies equally to the rest of the Jewish population. The […]

Prof. Dan Mahler passed away on April 16, 2024. Dan Mahler was a freedom fighter, an honorary member of the Hofesh (Freedom) – The largest secular Israeli NPO, and one of its founders. Dan Mahler was also an educated man, broad-minded, and with many interests. He was a plastic surgeon and medical consultant; He was […]

Here is a summary of the recorded remarks of the Jerusalem Faction leader Rabbi Zvi Friedman from last week: It is better for us to remain under the British occupation [1948], and not in a secular Jewish state. I’d rather Arabs kill my grandchildren than that they be secular. Secularism is worse than death. It […]

This article is translated from Hebrew. It was written originally by Eran in the “Hofesh” website. If you ask a “Western” religious believer when the world was created, you will almost certainly receive an answer that the world was created some 5700-6000 years ago. If you ask who created the world, the answer will be […]

“Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?” — 1 Samual 21:14-15 “The whole religious […]

Israel, Tel Aviv. A few years ago, I took a taxi. The [male] driver did not wear a “Kippah”. There were no religious papers visible around. Not even the common religious stickers you can find on many cars in Israel. The busy Ayalon Highway 20, however, inevitably established the necessary atmosphere for a driver-passenger conversation. […]