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Jerusalem -- Al-Quds.(Brief Article)

By Haddad, Heskel M.
Publication: Midstream
Date: Wednesday, November 1 2000

Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian Arab officials deny a Jewish relationship to Jerusalem. This is contrary to the facts.

Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Qur'an. In Jewish prayers, Jerusalem is mentioned five times daily, mentioned every time a Jew eats, and on every happy occasion, as when a child is born, and particularly at weddings when the groom breaks a glass to demonstrate sorrow for the destruction of Jerusalem.

Muslims pray toward Mecca even when they are in Jerusalem. Christians never pray toward Jerusalem. No other religion in the world prays

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