- Synagogue and state: religion and politics in modern
Israel.
CHARLES S. LIEBMAN is Avner Professor of Religion and Politics, and ASHER COHEN lectures in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Jews constitute about 80 percent of the Israeli population. Roughly one-fifth define themselves as "religious," by which they mean that they are fully or almost fully observant ......
- Muslims protest incest plot on Germany's 'Tatort'
COLOGNE, Germany -- In an unprecedented move, 20,000 Alevi Muslims from Germany and neighboring European countries rallied Sunday in Cologne to protest an episode of Germany’s top-rated detective series, "Tatort." The episode featured a storyline involving incest in an Alevi family living in Germany. Members of the moderate Muslim faith ......
- Searching for a secular legacy
Searching for a Secular Legacy The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 By Amos Elon Metropolitan. 446 pp. $30.00. Professor of history and Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin AMOS ELON's new work is a vividly written, carefully constructed, ......
- The future for Jews and Israel: action and innovation
may be the keys to Judaism's future.
Repeated incidents of violence and hate-filled rhetoric in recent years have focused world attention on the threat posed by extremist groups within all major religions, not only Islam. But Israeli scholars Tsvi Bisk and Moshe Dror, writing specifically on future prospects for Judaism, see the basis for a rebirth of ......
- PA Libel: Judaism Sees Arabs as Stage Between Jew and
Monkey.
By Palestinian Media Watch A basic tenet of Palestinian Authority anti-Semitism and racism is to define both Jews and the Jewish religion as evil by nature. In the following text, a Palestinian Minister first libels the Jewish people by asserting that murder of Arabs is a tenet of Zionism. He ......
- Judaism and Justice.
Judaism and Justice Rabbi Sidney Schwarz Jewish Lights Publishing PO Box 237, Sunset Farm Offices, RT 4, Woodstock, VT 05091 1580233120 $24.99 www.jewishlights.com Written by Rabbi Sidney Schwarz, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World asks the questions: Why are Jews so often involved in causes central ......
- 'Judgment Day! Islam, Israel and the
Nations'.
By Unity Coalition for Israel (Book Review) Author: Dave Hunt, ISBN: 1-928660-32-0 A Christian author and an authority on Bible prophecy says evangelicals need to hold President George W. Bush accountable for his rosy attitude towards Islam. This new book is the most comprehensive examination of ancient biblical prophecy and ......