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Date of source: Friday, March 12, 2004
What did the Old Testament and the Talmud, both of which shape the existence of the Jews, say?!” What is happening to the Jewish faith in terms of feelings of superiority or genius, both of which have contributed to the discrimination between Jews and non-Jews in Jewish society. All these...
Date of source: Friday, March 19, 2004
[This article was previously translated from Al-Ahram newspaper]. [see AWR 2004, week 9, art. 23]
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
[This article was previously translated from Al-Ahram newspaper]. [see AWR 2004, week 10, art. 28] - See art. 11: Jewish scholarship flourished in the Islamic state because of Islamic tolerance.
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 22, 2004
The West has no relationship to religions in the way that we see [religions] in the East. There is a tiny minority who live a life of real faith amidst the mud and the majority who do not adhere to religion. This is in addition to the West’s biased attitude with regard to the Pasliswtinian-Israeli...
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.
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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.