A piece of news recently circulated online, announcing that the rapper Kanye West is planning to convert to Judaism to avoid accusations of antisemitism. Three notes on this topic: 1. Our short article is not at all about Kanye West’s opinions and statements. Even if there is much to write about on this topic, it […]

The famous “Witness Claim” is deeply rooted in the Orthodox Judaism. It states that according to the Old Testament – millions of witnesses were present at the divine revelation at Mount Sinai. Hence, millions of people in any generation after, could not be convinced to believe in the existence of such a public event if […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hamas and Hezbollah are known terrorist organizations, but just like ISIS they are also religious terrorist organizations. The ideology that drives them is mainly a religious-Muslim ideology. The leaders of Hamas, like other religiously oriented fanatics, are convinced that God is with them. The decision-making process of the movement’s leaders (and Sinwar in particular) is […]

“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 […]

“And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should […]

Israel is a country trained in suffering from terrorism. It’s therefore very common to meet guards at the entrances of public buildings and institutions, searching for hidden weapons (or other dangerous things) in the belongings of people entering the place. Israel is also a country trained in suffering from self-religious coercion. Therefore, some of these […]