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Yaacov Apelbaum

The Qur’an’s Midrash Problem

That is the problem in miniature. The Qur’an is not restoring the Hebrew Bible. It is absorbing Jewish commentary and then presenting it as revelation. This is not “Torah preserved in heaven.” This is a late antique folklore with a divine letterhead.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

How I Took Arthur Bloom, a Vile Antisemite, to Court, and Won

This case sends a clear message: “Free speech” is not a license to fabricate lies, and the First Amendment is not a safe harbor for antisemitic defamation dressed up as opinion. The jury didn’t buy Bloom’s “it’s an opinion” defense. It found liability. It found actual malice. It awarded compensatory damages. And it awarded punitive damages.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

On Catholics for Catholics

This is why the Catholic for Catholic sets off every alarm. It is new. It is grievance-soaked. It is siege-framed. It is emotionally manipulative. It captures a religious identity community, tells that community its institutions have failed, then offers a substitute tribunal composed of celebrities, exiles, demagogues, and professional antagonists. That is not ordinary political advocacy. That is the social architecture of foreign subversion.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

Analysis of Dreams from My Real Father

The irony is almost literary: in trying to expose Obama, Joel Gilbert ended up rummaging through the archives of Leonard Burtman, a flasher in trench-coat and repackaging mid-century smut as political “evidence.” Burtman sold sleaze as sleaze; Gilbert’s only real innovation was to market it as investigative truth.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

The Qur’an’s Use of Explicit Hebrew Theological Terms

Why does the Qur’an use Jewish words it doesn’t seem to understand?

Throughout its verses, it borrows sacred terms from Jewish tradition—words rich in meaning and theological weight. Yet these borrowings often appear without explanation, stripped of context and depth. What remains is a fragmented echo of another faith’s vocabulary, repurposed but never fully grasped.

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