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Islam Is the Answer

I was visiting a dear Palestinian Muslim friend in Jerusalem some years ago during the first intifada.

Anxiety about Jewish Literature

As long as the Jewish people lives, it will generate a living culture, and as long as that culture values the written word, Jews will write books.

Interfaith Upswing

Interfaith programs — a concept which up until recently provoked a ho-hum attitude at best — are suddenly sweeping the country as people of all faiths struggle to come to terms with events of the past five weeks.

To look at one example, Valley Beth Shalom\’s lecture series \”One God: Many Faces,\” beginning this week, had already been a year in the making before the recent tragedies, but it could not have come at a more significant time, according to the synagogue\’s Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis.

High Anxiety

The concerns that keep Americans away compel Israelis to stay home as well.

Sanctions: Security Tool?

With the risk imposed by the new intifada, the near-term security of individual Israelis weighs heavily on all our minds. However, we also must consider threats farther afield, as Iran, Iraq and Syria threaten the long-term stability of the entire Israeli state.

The Muslim Zionist

Does Islam deserve its title as "one of the world\’s great religions"?

Something in Common

One of Hitler\’s first fiats in 1933 led to the dismissal of all Jewish professors from German universities.\n

Emotional Barriers

Rabbi David Eliezrie is right. It is very frustrating when your point of view is not heard and it seems as if you are invisible.

Arafat’s Culture of Hatred

Arafat\’s media, schools and summer camps are teaching Palestinian Arabs, young and old alike, to hate.

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