Articles & Features

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Introducing the First Covenant

Central to the main organizing purpose of the Bible, the First Covenant is the living heart of all true religion, including every logical, moral teaching in the Bible.

• Amar’e Stoudemire’s Jewish Journey - By Gabe Friedman: Jan 2 January 2021,
• Sheldon Adelson, Billionaire Donor to G.O.P. and Israel, Is Dead at 87 - Robert D. McFadde: Jan. 12, 2021
• Strong Views and ‘Close to the Boss’: How U.S. Envoy Reshaped a Conflict - By David M. Halbfinger Jan. 10, 2021
• Joint Resolution of the United States Congress
  (Public Law 102-14)
• Mission Statement: about The Rainbow Covenant
• The Thirteen Principles of Faith
• The Seven Commandments
• Where do the Seven Commandments Come From?
• Noah and 9/11, by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times
• Torah Commandment of Tefillin and Maybe a Newly Discovered Benefit

 

• Sir Isaac Newton, Noahide by Jose' Faur
• If you were God (thanks to the late Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan)
• Moses, The First Revolutionary, by (Dr.) Wilfried Daim
• Anti-Semitism in Britain, by George Orwell
• Israel: Not the Point, Just the Instrument from Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz
• What is it?
• Noahide Burial: Preparing for Death, Noahide Burial and a Sample Will
• How Non-Jews Will Save Judaism - by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
• Noah, Meet Jacob
• The Hebrew Revolution

• The Path of the Conscious Servant
• Why Believe in God at all?
• Have You Ever Wondered...?
• The Noahide Covenant and Male Homosexual Conduct; a Response
  by Rabbi Michael Katz
• Proof of God? - the Higgs Boson by M. Dallen

• The Adam Gene - Science,the Calendar, Literacy, and the First True Humans
• God is God, by Steve Earle
• The Holy Names of God
• The Constitutionally Religious United States
• Good Readings [Recommended Reading]
• Prosperity Gospel, by M. Dallen
• Rainbow Covenant, the illustrated version
  

 

The Gentiles Who Act Like Jews by Ilana E. Straus in Tablet, the online magazine, January 26, 2016

First Covenant members' goals and comments

Friedrich Nietzsche, by M. Dallen

Psalm 119

The Politics of Revelation - By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

How Odd of God: The Torah-system at work: life stories - from Abraham to Einstein, Paula Abdul, "Captain Kirk," "Indiana Jones." etc.

  
Photo by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press

• Abortion - What's the Law?
  by M. Dallen
• Buffalo-Horn Shofar and Universal Spiritual Guide to Sounding a Shofar, by Dr. James D. Regehr
• Bury Your Saint (January 24, 2018) by Michael Dallen
• 'Proto-Islam' Rocks! from Covenant Connection,
  January 2010
• What Happens to the Rothschilds? / What's
  to Learn When Jews Succeed?   (How does
  prophecy get realized in history and the news?)
• Belief in God in a God-denying Age
  "Science" and disbelief versus real science
• The Revolutionaries, Torah Portion, "The Golden Calf,"
  Exodus 30:11 - 3:35, by M. Dallen
• Who are the Jews? 18 Fundamental and Profound Reasons Why the Jewish Way is Great by Anonymous
• "Avatar" and Pantheism - Heaven and Nature, "Atheism
  Made Sexy": the New Religion, by Ross Douthat
  
• Questions from an Atheist  courtesy of e-Kiruv's "Ask the Rabbi"

 

• Fulfilling Our Biblical Mandate by Rabbi S. Boteach
• Israel's Lost Mission Statement by Rabbi S. Boteach
• A Letter from Jerusalem to our B'nai Noach friends by
  the late Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen, of blessed memory
• The Holy Names of God by M. Dallen
• Judaism: Openness and Toleration from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
• History Points to God? charts, reprinted
  from Rainbow Covenant, from John C.L. Hulley
• Prophecy fulfilled again: Commandments,
  Statutes, and Circumcision by M. Dallen
  - listen to The Circumcision Song (sounds like reggae),
  courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corp. - and
  "U.S. Officials Weigh Circumcision to Cut HIV Risk"
  The New York Times, August 24, 2009

 

• Eternal Life/Soul of Fire looking into the beyond (and into Kaddish, Israel's famous, remarkable 'Prayer for the Dead') by Ethan Dor-Shav
• The Book of Job: a New Interpretation - Job's Path to Enlightenment by Ethan Dor-Shav, in Azure ("Ideas for the Jewish Nation")
• )Hebrew Dictionary - Metaphysics (plus, links to more by Mr. Ethan Dor-Shav)

• Sex and Gender Roles: Sexual Egalitarianism and the Jews
  by Rabbi Avi Shafran
• Sex, Gender and Justice, from the journal Nature and The New York Times

 

• The Reappearance of God-Fearers in Our Time by Prof. James D. Tabor
• El, God of Abraham Why did men like Freud and Einstein reject their fathers' God? by M.E. Dallen
• Does the Talmud Speak Ill of Non-Jews? by M. Dallen
• Musician/poet Leonard Cohen, "the little Jew who wrote the Bible"
  Interview by Arthur Kurzweil and Pamela Roth
• Hatian Earthquake, Voodoo, and the Culture of No Improvement: The Underlying Tragedy, by The New York Times' David Brooks

First Covenant spirituality and observance

In ancient times the Children of Israel called them "God-fearers." In modern times, after the Holocaust and destruction of the Jews in Europe, Israel calls the heroic souls who tried to save their fellows from the Nazis' genocide "righteous gentiles." The righteous men and women of every nation, according to the Torah, are blessed. Today, those who consciously try to keep the First or Universal Covenant are frequently called Noahides.

• Haiti: Earthquake and Tsunami and the Seven Noahide Laws
  by Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
• Beginnings: the first international Noahide conference,
  1990 by J. E. Saunders...
• Noahides 2.0: Internet Fuels Non-Jewish Interest
  in the Seven Laws of Noah_(June 22, 2009) by Ben Harris,
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency - and see Torah-Based Noahism
  (August 6, 2009), by M.Dallen,
  for the story behind the story
• The Seven Principles
• Stranger In a Strange Land,
  by Shlomo Riskin, Jerusalem Post
• Switching Horses in Mid-Stream
  by Andrea M. Chester

 

• Prayer, How Should Noahides Pray?
• Sabbath For Everyone by Rabbi S. Boteach
• Is the Sabbath Universal? by Rev. Jack E. Saunders

 

• Praying For Rain (observations on reactions to drought,
  from the Biblical point of view) by Jack E. Saunders
• Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology Work With the Jewish Sabbath
  by Dan Levin, The New York Times
• Astrology, by Dimitar Kosev
• Celebrating Creation by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• The First Two (of the Ten) Commandments
  by Rabbi David Eidensohn

• Law of the Torn Limb (and please see the more recent article in Covenant Connection, "Torn Limb," The Weirdest-Sounding of All the Seven Commandments - Dec. 2017)
• Dishonesty and Holiness
• Prayer, an open-source movement

 

• First Covenant Religion (and Maimonides)
• First Covenant Worship, Holy Days and Rituals
• Sabbath and holiness
• Universal holidays
• The Original Bible
• The Rainbow Connection
• From Minister to Torah Observant Noahide
  by Jack Saunders

 

• God Saves, with or Without Jesus
  by Robert Lido
• Developing a Correct Concept of the Creator
  by Jack Saunders
• The Universal Torah
• A Comparison of Judaism and Christianity - by (we think) Boruch (Bryan) Ellison and JAHG-USA at noahide.com
• I have no problem with Islam except for... Courtesy of Facebook, Sarah Bendek and "Faithless Daughter," December 2012
• Background: the First Covenant
• What is the Hebrew Revolution?
  by M.E. Dallen
• Biblical Riddles (Creation theories, evolution, biblical census
  figures, and other puzzles)

 

• The Seven Laws of Noah and the Non-Jews Who Follow Them
  by Michael Kress, Moment Magazine
• New Noahide Prayerbook by the Oklahoma B'nai Noach Society
• Keep the Seven, Go to Heaven   by Chaim Revier,
  Mishpacha Magazine
• Building Noahides' Ark by Karin Kloosterman, Jerusalem Post
• Are Noahides Obligated to Sanctify the Name of God? (Noahide Conference Address, June 26, 2008) by Rabbi Michael Katz

 

• The Significance of Torah Conversations in the Bible by Rabbi Michael Katz
• Noahide Rebirth, 1990 (Report from a conference on the modern rebirth of Noahism) by Rabbi Michael Katz
• Jew and Noahide by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• The Donkey of Bila'am by Rabbi David Eidensohn
• Noahides and the Torah from Rabbi M.M. Schneerson
• Symposium: What Does it Mean to Keep the Law?

Biblical studies/Torah studies

Suppose you come from the vast majority of humankind, the more than 99.75 percent of humanity which isn't Jewish. In Hebrew thinking, you're a gentile, a Noahide, one of the non-Hebrew descendants of Noah. One who studies the First Covenant sincerely, in order to do God's will, receives infinite blessing.

• From 'the Office of the Priest':
  "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me," or
  "Why the Rebbe's Picture Isn't Before Me"
  by Shmuel Yitzchak ben Aaron HaCohen
• Reader's Response: Rabbi Scott Israel Seldowitz replies
  to Why the Rebbe's Picture Isn't Before Me
• From 'the Office of the Priest',
  "Dead Letters," or "Believing in Moses Doesn't Mean
  Sending Letters to the Deceased"
  by Shmuel Y. ben Aaron HaCohen

 

• Rabbinic Views on Understanding Aggadah/Midrash
• Passover 2013/Pesach 5773 and lameness in Reform Judaism
• Evangelical Christians and Israel by Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen
• Rise of the Religious Charlatans
  by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (in The Jerusalem Post)

 

• What Noahides Were Meant to Be by Rabbi Michael Katz
• Conversation on What Noahides Were Meant to Be a symposium
• Who is Isaiah's "Suffering Servant of the Lord"? (Isaiah 53), by Jerry and Norma Reynolds
• Who is Isaiah's "Suffering Servant"? (Isaiah 53, again) by Hiram Rosa

 

• Reflections on Dr. Kevorkian - I Did Know Jack, by
  Jack Lessenberry, The Metro Times
• Terri Schiavo, Life and Death [Updated April 2006/5 Nissan 5766]
• Torturing the Geneva Convention September 26, 2007
• Noahide Journey, Christianity's Roots, and more -
  Mesora.org's Jewish Times magazine,  July 3, 2009

 

• The Third Opportunity (a Chinese Noahide writes) by Dr. Xiaodong Wu
• Response to Dr. Wu by Miriam Ben-Yaacov
• Christian Meanings by Robert Lido
• Where do I, a non-Jewish "stranger," fit in? By Rachav

 

• One Reason to Be Happy by Shoshana ClarkShabbat for the Universe by Miriam Ben-Yaacov
• For God So Loved the World, a Noahide's Meditation  by Hiram V. Rosa,
  and Addendum, by Jack E. Saunders)
• Virgin Birth, Fact or Fabrication? by Rev. Jack E. Saunders
• A Balanced Approach to Kabbalah by Miriam Ben-Yaacov

 

• High Holiday Guide: synagogue seating, holiday prayer, and the breads of tashlich (call it humor), by anonymous
• B’nai Noach: Leadership Mission in Israel by Yigal Levin
• Why I'm Not an Atheist- a mini-autobiography by M. Dallen (paused in progress)
• Noah, Meet Jacob - Israel's Universal Calling (paused in progress)
• Daniel's Story, So Far  Daniel, son of Dimitar and Milena, and the nature of HaShem, by Dimitar
  

From Genesis to 9/11, Islam, Israel,
and Amalek

• Daniel Patrick Moynihan response to "Zionism is Racism" at the U.N
• Amalek by M. Dallen
• International Law Doesn't Require Two-State Solution (August 28, 2013)
• Does the Torah or Talmud Speak Badly of Non-Jews?
• Triumph Over Leon Klinghoffer, of blessed memory
  by Bill Day (below)
  

  

• Faith Keeps Israel in the News
  by M. Dallen, The Jewish Press
• Disappointed in Israel? Let's Discuss...
  Article from OUTPOST (November, 2010)
  
• A Palestinian State Won't Bring Peace
  by Shmuel Katz, Jerusalem Post
• Ex-Jihadist Seeks Islam's Martin Luther
• by Nolan Finley, Detroit News

 

• Jews expelled from Arab lands lost all they had;
  the Exodus that President Obama forgot to mention,
  by Andre' Aciman, The New York Times
• Polygamy and Suicide Bombing by Alan S. Miller, Ph.D., and
  Satoshi Kanazawa, Ph.D., Psychology Today
• Leave Little Israel Alone
  by Mike Royko, Chicago Sun-Times
  

 

• Six Children Died Today  from Pearls Before Swine,
  by Stephen Pastis (comic strip, from the daily newspaper)
• Judaism, a tongue-in-cheek definition from The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, a Definitive Encyclopaedia of Existing Knowledge in 27 Excruciating Volumes, 2012

• Temple Mount in Ruins, by Rabbi Dr. Israel Eldad
• No-Prayer Zone: the Temple Mount Today
  World Net Daily
• Terrorism by Lawsuit by Sam Abady and H. Silverglate, Boston Globe
• Appreciating Rabbi Meir Dovid Kahane (1932-1990)
• Banned UN Speech: "Human Rights Nightmare"

 

• Letter From an Angry Black Woman: To the Students For Justice in Palestinet. For Arts.
• Holocaust Studies, Two: Frustrating Truth; Collective Historical Guilt
• The Jewish War by M. Dallen
• The Rights of the "Settlers" in the Land of Israel, by Samuel Katz

• Geographic Perspective: Maps of the Arab-Israeli/Muslim-Jewish War
• More maps: Israel Size Comparison Maps
• Israel Virtual Tour by Leonard Ivanhoe
• Can You Dig It?
• Amar’e Stoudemire Is on a Religious Quest
• Religion of Peace?
• Christianity: Atheists United

  Every statement in Articles & Features does not necessarily reflect the entire view of the First Covenant Foundation 

   

 

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