Beyond Shylock: How Jews are portrayed in Egyptian cinema
Jewish Journal
May 13, 2015
Images of a seductive Jewish belly dancer move across the screen.
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muhammad
Nous Sommes Charlie: This week we are Jewish Hebdo
Rob Eshman
January 15, 2015
In 2008, I had a chance to make a statement in defense of satire, and I passed.
An accidental theologist tackles Muhammad bio
Roberto Loiederman
August 7, 2013
In 2010, Lesley Hazleton was asked to give a brief talk about the Quran. “As far as I was concerned, I was talking to those several hundred people in the hall,” Hazleton said in a recent phone interview. “I certainly had no idea that a nine-minute video about reading the Quran would go viral. … I mean, I’m in my 60s, so the words ‘Lesley’ and ‘viral’ don’t even belong in the same sentence.”
Criticism is not Islamophobia
David Suissa
April 22, 2013
Criticism is the oxygen of journalism. Here at the Jewish Journal, we will criticize anything that we believe deserves criticism, including religion.
Living in a mash, not a ‘clash,’ of civilizations
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2012
Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. The riots and Iranian fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, which forced the British-Kashmiri author into hiding for 13 years, can only be described as tragic — for him and for the cause of freedom and tolerance.
Cartoon Tension at UC Irvine
Marc Ballon
March 9, 2006
The showing of three cartoons of the prophet Muhammad at a conference last week on radical Islam at UC Irvine attracted a near-capacity crowd of about 400, including leaders of some local Jewish groups, while protesters demonstrated outside.
Don’t Ignore the Quiet Majority of Muslims
Salam Al-Marayati
February 16, 2006
Most Muslims — and especially American Muslims — cannot fairly be accused of hypersensitivity when it comes to the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. That\’s because most Muslims have not overreacted, despite the stereotypic images served up by the media.
Muslim Messages
Tom Tugend
February 28, 2002
Amid the profusion of billboards along Southern California freeways, motorists are being startled by a new one. It features seven smiling faces of various ethnicities, with one, a woman wearing a black headscarf, holding a small American flag.\n\n
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