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Breaking News American Muslims Brought to Israel To Help Them Understand — Not Agree
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Alejandro Beutel bowed his yarmulke-covered head and pressed his hands and forehead into the 2,000-year-old stones of the Western Wall. After slipping a note into one of the cracks, Beutel whispered a prayer and cried. It’s a scene that unfolds daily at the sacred site in the Old City here — except…
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Breaking News Top British Muslim Education Official Calls for Teaching of Judaism
The head of Muslim faith schools in Britain has called for the teaching of Judaism in those schools, echoing a call by Britain’s chief rabbi to teach Islam in Jewish schools. Ashfaque Chowdhury, chairman of Britain’s Association of Muslim Schools, said he will encourage member schools to teach its students about Judaism, the JewishNews.co.uk website…
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Opinion You’ve Heard About Muslims Getting Profiled. What About Jews?
Trigger warning: This column may offend some readers. It concerns profiling of Muslims (for terrorism) and of Jews (for espionage). The issues aren’t as different as you might wish. Proceed at your own risk. Let’s begin with New York dentist Gershon Pincus. A Brooklyn-born Orthodox Jew, age 62, he applied in 2013 for a part-time…
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Opinion Why Jews Down in Dixie Are Praying in Arabic
The interfaith community of Huntsville, Alabama, has put the “heart” back in the “Heart of Dixie.” For months, we’d listened as our state leaders railed against Muslims in general and Syrian refugees in particular. It was a local attitude as well. We saw an increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric on social media and local talk radio….
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Breaking News Jewish Leaders Join Letter Condemning GOP Candidates’ Remarks on Muslims
A number of leaders of Jewish groups signed a public letter condemning “highly offensive” remarks targeting Muslims by two Republican presidential candidates. The letter, published Dec. 21 in the Washington Post and posted on social media, cites George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., which said that the U.S. Constitution “gives…
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Breaking News College Class Wears Holocaust Yellow Stars To Protest Islamophobia
A University of San Diego professor and some of her students wore yellow star badges modeled after the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust to protest Islamophobia. Bahar Davary, an Iranian-American associate professor of theology and religious studies at the college, and her students began wearing the yellow stars with the word…
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Breaking News VIDEO: Jewish Chief Justice in Mass. Assures Muslims Rights Safeguarded
BOSTON — The first Jewish chief justice of the highest court in Massachusetts assured Muslims that the state’s judicial system will protect their rights. Against a backdrop of vocal anti-Muslim sentiment across the United States, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s chief justice, Ralph Gants, addressed worshippers at the Islamic Society of Boston after midday prayers…
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Culture The Fight to Reclaim Islam
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue By Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz Harvard University Press, 144 pages, $17.95 In a controversial address last year, President Obama made clear that the Islamic State is “not Islamic.” “No religion,” he explained, “condones the killing of innocents.” By declaring the Islamic State group to be an…
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