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Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Many Jews are gratified that there are Christian groups that support Israel. This support is much more than just political. Certain Christian groups have raised millions of dollars in support of Israel. What many Jews do not realize is the motivation behind this support, because if they did, I...
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2002
Visit to the monasteries of Makarios, St. Bishoi and the Syrian organized by RNSAW.
Report on the succession of Pope Shenouda.
Discussion about supposedly anti-semitic news in Washington Post.
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2005
Last year, Jews all over the world celebrated the 800th anniversary of the death of Jewish scholar Musa Ibn Maymun, who is universally considered the most important Jewish thinker in the last 2,000 years.
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2005
Writer Muhammad Abu al-Ghār has authored a book about Egyptian Jews, detecting their history from their very beginnings until their departure from Egypt. The book puts the number of Jews who lived in Egypt for several centuries at nearly 10,000 and most of them have lived in the Hāra al-Yahoud [...
Date of source: Friday, April 9, 2004
The Jewish heritage of violence was created by priests and rabbis and was employed to annihilate the Arabs. What had happened to the Jewish heritage also happened to Christianity when it changed from a focus on spiritual salvation to become a part of Western civilization, which has Greek roots that...
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 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.
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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.