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Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Around 100,000 Russian immigrants in Israel are not Jewish according to the Orthodox Jewish law.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Dr. Larry Levine responds to questions about different Jewish denominations, conversion to Judaism in the past and the Israeli Law of Return.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
It is true that Judaism does accept converts. However, Judaism does not seek converts. Indeed, traditional Judaism discourages those who want to convert to Judaism. This is a fundamental difference between the view of Christianity toward non-Christians and Judaism toward non-Jews.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Baptist pastor Dr. Jeff Adams agrees with Dr. Larry Levine, an Orthodox Jew, that some statements of evangelical Christian leaders supporting Israel are reasons for concern. But Dr. Adams asks to avoid putting all Christian evangelicals and/or fundamentalists in the same box, especially in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
The movie “ Kingdom of Heaven” is receiving critique and applauds for one scene between Muslims and Christians by presenting the core of the value system of Muslims as pertaining to “submission” and the Christians to “decision.”
Date of source: Friday, May 27, 2005
The Hebrew Mission was set up on behalf of the people of Israel to urge world Jews to emigrate to Palestine. The following year – 1888 – saw its founder William E. Blackstone visiting Palestine and raising the slogan “a land without a people for a people without a land.”
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2005
The Jewish presence in the lands of Palestine in 1837 did not exceed 8,000. It climbed to 13,000 in 1852, which was 40% of the total inhabitants of Palestine.
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2005
Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. The Crusades are generally portrayed as a series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics… The Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression—an...
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2005
A Western Christian review of the Kingdom of Heaven Chattaway calls the film nuanced and complex. Kingdom of Heaven focuses not only on the conflict between the opposing armies, but on the debates within both camps over what God’s will might be. The review ends with questions for its Christian...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2005
The West accepted blindly Jewish lies and distorted Christian facts. Lord Shaftesbury offered in 1840 a program to the London conference pertaining to the settlement of Jews in the land of Palestine, acting upon the “a land without a people for a people without a land” rule, which was adopted by...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.