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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: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Dr. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ā, Muftī of Egypt, said that Islam has limited polygamy. In a Hadīth reported by Sālim, his father, Ghaylān Ibn Salāma al-Thaqafī, had ten concubines when he embraced Islam. The Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] told him to “chose only four of them” to marry.
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2005
An Al-ʾAsbū‘ article published on January 31, 2005, reinforces a widespread belief that Americans are trying to use Egypt’s Christians to create a wedge between Muslims and Christians with the purpose of weakening Egypt. The article lacks accuracy but shows Egyptian distrust of US involvement in...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2002
Egyptian Cultural TV broadcasted on October 27 a live discussion with Patrick Haenni, social researcher at the CEDEJ in Cairo and Cornelis Hulsman on inter-religious dialogue in a program of Heba Fahmy, “We and the Other.” Much of Egyptian and Western news reporting about the Arab World is not...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2002
A totally distorted report about the church in Egypt in a US publication called ’the Layman.' The editorial also reports about a visit to Assiut with a group of journalists and members of expatriate churches, a meeting with Bishop Thomas of al-Qussia and Governor Ahmed Hamam Atiya of Assiut. These...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Revd. Steve Snyder, founder of Christian Solidarity International, suddenly passed away.
Media critique on often appearing incorrect elements in stories.
Date of source: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Remark on a two-day conference about international terrorism.
Announcement of an article about polarization between Muslims and Christian reported in this issue.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Media attention for RSNAW work.
Report on the TV discussion about Arabs living abroad and developing an Arab lobby.
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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.