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The Torah is a Hebrew word meaning "teachings.” The word refers to the first five books of the Holy Bible where it is defined as a set of regulations. The body of the scripture, which is called the Old Testament by non-Jews, is known to Jews as the Tanakh or written Torah.
Last year, Jews all over the world celebrated the 800th anniversary of the death of Jewish scholar Musa Ibn Maymun, who is universally considered the most important Jewish thinker in the last 2,000 years.
Victor Nehemias, who spent half his life in Egypt and is now in his seventies, recently published a book called “The man who was born twice: The story of an Egyptian Jew who emigrated to Israel.” Nehemias writes that he is a victim of the Arab-Israeli conflict that transformed him from being an...
Just by coincidence, it was discovered that Stephen Glass, a journalist at the New Republic, used to fabricate stories that never took place. Actually, Glass is not the only case. Journalists these days are trying to cope with the highly competitive environment because of communication and...
The story of Sheikh Kamil Rayan is not simple. He is a Muslim activist who had been pursued by the Israeli Shabak [Israel’s General Security Services] and was sent to the Al-Naqab Desert to work as a teacher in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy him. They also fired both him and his wife from...
The interview with Benny Morris, a professor of history at Ben Gurion University, in Ha'aretz newspaper raised endless reactions among Israelis and Palestinians alike. Actually, whoever has been following what Morris writes or says will not have been shocked by his recent interview. He says that he...
A book left behind by the Jews of Egypt, entitled Al-Talmud - Usuluh wa Tasalsuluh wa Ādābuh [The Talmud: its origin, sequence and morals], was accidentally found by Dr. Rashād al-Shāmī, professor of Hebrew literature at ‘Ayn Shams University.

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