- On the holiness of Jerusalem in Judaism and Islam.(Religion And...

For 3000 years the eternal city of Jerusalem has held the most exalted position in the Jewish religion, and a place of unparalleled importance in ......
- Take off that mask. (Israel: two e-mail communications).

March 16, 2003 Jerusalem, Israel Dear Jill, When The New York Times carries a story about a student newspaper at the Jewish Theological Seminary refusing ......
- The new anti-Zionism and the old antisemitism: transformations.

I. INTRODUCTION: THREE THREATS TO JEWISH EXISTENCE In his "Letter to Yemen" (1), Maimonides (1135-1204) describes three types of Judeophobia, that is, fear of and ......
- Diaspora cultures: Jewish creativity and doom.

This ambitious collection, * written by 23Judaic historians, literary critics, archaeologists, and Jewish folklorists, adheres to a common approach. The authors seek to explain how ......
- Who tarnished Saladin's eagle?

As American and Allied troops converged on Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, the Second Gulf War wound down to a "sort-of" ......
- Two Jewish responses to the Spanish Inquisition.(Heretics)(Heretics or...

Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile, by Renee Levine Melammed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 268 pp., $55. The Jewish Nation ......
- Theological roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict.(Israel and the Middle...

In February 2003, Muslim Views, one of the main organs of South Africa's 800 000-strong Muslim community, featured a story in the children's section telling, ......
- Did it really hang on one vote? The resolution establishing the state...

On November 29, 1947, a dramatic U.N. vote determined the partition of Palestine into two independent states, and the internationalization of Jerusalem. The Arabs made ......
- Dhimmitude: degradation for peace.(Eurabia: Land of...

Last August, Michael Chambers, a talk show host, was targeted by an Arab defense organization that accused him of sullying the Islamic faith. Citing polls ......
- "Christ-killer"--the long shadow of a blood libel.

After centuries of prejudice and hostility, culminating in the murder of European Jewry, the prospect has tantalizingly appeared of a day when anti-Semitism will no ......