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Date of source: Friday, April 9, 2004
The Jewish heritage of violence was created by priests and rabbis and was employed to annihilate the Arabs. What had happened to the Jewish heritage also happened to Christianity when it changed from a focus on spiritual salvation to become a part of Western civilization, which has Greek roots that...
Date of source: Saturday, April 17, 2004
Jew Net Organization [see comment in full text], which supervises all Jewish organizations, has stopped sending financial aid to the Jewish community in Egypt because the community refused the organization’s request to present them the Torah manuscripts from Egypt. The organization also requested...
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 2004
Jews believe in an oral tradition that was passed down from Moses, which they also consider the words of God. These oral traditions were written down in books, starting with the Mishna and the Talmud. For the Jews, the study of the Talmud has become very important. The laws and the legislation have...
Date of source: Thursday, May 6, 2004
According to the Talmud, if the mother of a child is a Jew, then the child is Jewish. Otherwise, the child is not considered Jewish. However, in 1983, the Higher Institute for Reformist Rabbis held a meeting after which it was decided that if the father of a child is Jewish and the mother is not,...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 2004
There are three main principles that determine the Jewish identity: Worshipping one God; practicing certain rituals that reflect the Jewish beliefs, like announcing his faith in one God; and the loyalty of the Jew to his being a Jew and loyalty to the rest of the Jewish nation.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Did late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his first visit to Egypt after the Camp David agreement point to the pyramids and uttered the words “My forefathers contributed to building them?” This is most likely a legend based on conspiracy thinking.
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The Arab-American Committee Against Discrimination in the U.S. protested Webster’s Dictionary altering the meaning of “anti-Semitism” in its new edition. The “anti-Semitism” entry in the dictionary designates anyone who is against Israel and sympathizes with its enemies as anti-Semitic.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2005
We are being threatened by many American knives, and every day, we bleed. Freedom is restricted in the name of democracy and the defense of human rights. Last Wednesday January 5, 2005, the US State Department issued its first controversial Report on Global Anti-Semitism. The report condemns many...
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2001
The writer of "The Philosophy of War in the Israeli Religious Thinking" gives many examples to prove that old myths penetrated the stories of the Torah [the Old Testament]. The author refuted the examples he cited. He tried to prove through the Qur’an that the Bible is the word of God, which cannot...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
The Copts Daily Digest published on July 8 an attack of Dr. Raafat Labeeb on an article of Mustafa Mahmoud in Al-Ahram a day earlier. Dr. Mahmoud wrote in that article that the Torah mentions nothing about the afterlife because Jewish rabbis had deleted everything from the original text to that...
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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.