Source: Dallas News A minister of a Richardson church that included Judaism and Islamism among “dangerous isms” on a flier distributed in area neighborhoods is standing behind the message and the […]
Source: Swiss Info Channel Four religious leaders, including a rabbi and an imam, have been honoured for their efforts to bring Swiss religious communities closer together. Awarded for the first […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The right wing supporters of President Trump, are very willing to ignore his racism, sexism, Islamophobia, sexual exploits […]
Source: The Guardian By Bernard Avishai Behind the seemingly intractable Palestinian conflict lie deeper questions about what Israel wants to be: an ‘open’ globalised democracy or a ‘closed’ Jewish state […]
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin | 19 hours ago JERUSALEM (RNS) — When American and Israeli officials inaugurated the first-ever U.S. embassy in Jerusalem Monday (May 14) in a festive red, […]
By Shlomo Sand (Author), Yael Lotan (Translator) See all 6 formats and editions Kindle $15.77 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from $14.35 29 Used from $14.35 14 New from […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mary Papenfuss Actress Roseanne Barr raised the possibility as recently as March that she might run for president — again. Now she’s fantasizing about becoming Israel’s prime […]
Source: Independent By Chris Baynes Israeli authorities have refused to display adverts informing female airline passengers they are not obliged to change seats at the request of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men […]
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s leading demographics expert on Tuesday defended military figures indicating the number of Arabs will soon equal that of Jews in […]
Source: NPR BY SIMON SCHÜTZ Germany’s new minister of interior, Horst Seehofer, has stirred up debate about the role of Islam in Germany. In an interview with the German newspaper BILD Seehofer […]
Author: Jonathan Cook. March 8, 2016 (well, nothing has changed much since then)… Diplomats may have a reputation for greyness, obfuscation, even hypocrisy, but few have found themselves compared to a serial […]
Source: The Guardian BY Alison Flood One of the last remaining Dead Sea scrolls has been deciphered by researchers at the University of Haifa, with the ancient fragment revealing that its […]
By +972 Blog |Published January 25, 2018 Bayezid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, saved my family’s life during the Spanish Inquisition. The Israeli government could learn a […]
Source: Gizmodo By Ed Cara Contrary to what you might assume after hate-browsing Facebook, it seems the internet may have actually made people less dogmatic about religion. A recent study published in the Journal […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Catholic Church does not allow women priests and hardly any Muslim group or sect allows for women […]
Suggested reading Demystifying ISIS for Trump and Others: Religion or Politics? A Collection of Articles Demystifying Prophethood, Theocracy, Democracy and Dictatorship Is There Coercion in Islam and Christianity? Is There Freedom of Thought […]
By Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass) holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of 10 books on American religion and culture, including “Grateful: The Transformative […]
Source: Haertz By Allison Kaplan Sommer The U.S. evangelical community is in raptures over Trump’s decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, believing it moves the world closer to […]
Source: BBC News An Israeli government minister has resigned in a dispute about railway maintenance on the Sabbath. The Health Minister, Yaakov Litzman, is a member of the ultra-orthodox United […]
Source: The Guardian By Daniel José Camacho, who is a Contributing Opinion Writer at Guardian US. His writing has appeared in Christian Century, Religion Dispatches, Sojourners, Duke Magazine, and TIME, […]
