When religion is dangerous for your health
By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor CNN: The coronavirus pandemic has brought out the best and worst aspects of religion. Faith has inspired countless acts of generosity and goodwill while helping […]
Israel deems women’s ritual baths essential, leaving some conflicted over virus risk
Source: Washington Post By Ruth Eglash EFRAT, West Bank — As covid-19 spread rapidly in the first weeks of March, Esther grew nervous. It was nearly time for her monthly […]
Bereaved families plead for reconciliation at joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial
Source: Times of Israel Organizers say nearly 200,000 watch controversial online event broadcast from Tel Aviv and Ramallah featuring grieving family members from both sides of the conflict By Jacob […]
Al-Aqsa preacher’s voice echoes across Jerusalem devoid of Ramadan crowds
Source: Swiss Info By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An imam standing atop an 18-foot pulpit in a near-empty Al-Aqsa Mosque delivered the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem, […]
Arab countries could stop Israeli land grab
Source: Arab News By Daoud Kuttab The president’s blueprint gave Israel much of what it has long sought, including US recognition of settlements and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley […]
Covid 19 is Not, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As soon as the Covid 19 raised its ugly head some conservative Hindu pundits were ready to declare […]
My Conversion Story from Judaism to Islam Ahmadiyyat
By Nusrat Jahan Bashir 22nd March 2020 I was born into a Jewish family, the middle child of three girls. My mother’s grandfather was a Rabbi and she was raised […]
Muslim and Jewish paramedics pause to pray together. One of many inspiring moments in the coronavirus crisis
Jerusalem (CNN)There was barely any time to pause. Avraham Mintz and Zoher Abu Jama just finished responding to a call regarding a 41-year-old woman having respiratory problems in the southern […]
Ultra-Orthodox Israeli town of Bnei Brak under lockdown
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: What is common between the fundamentalists of all the Abrahamic and other faiths is denial of evidence and scientific observations and an insistence on […]
Virus Soars Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews as Many Flout Israel’s Rules
Source: New York Times Failure to comply with government restrictions is causing the coronavirus to spread in ultra-Orthodox communities up to eight times faster than elsewhere in Israel. By David […]
Coronavirus teaches us once again: The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
Joel Osteen’s Video: Enlarging the Circle of Love
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, half hour wonderful presentations, about positive thinking, hope, optimism […]
Corona Fear’s Cure: Chanting from the Bible and the Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There were 2,813,503 registered deaths in the United States in 2017 and these increased by 1.22% in […]
A Ray of Optimism amid Global Fear
Source: Jerusalem Post BY DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS The coronavirus epidemic is slowing down in China, and will not pose a risk to the majority of people, an Israeli Nobel Prize laureate has […]
Bloomberg rips Sanders for boycotting AIPAC, calls his bigotry comments ‘dead wrong’
Source: NBC News By Allan Smith The Vermont senator had said the pro-Israel lobbying group provides a platform “for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.” WASHINGTON — […]
Israel’s UN ambassador tells AIPAC Bernie Sanders is an ‘ignorant fool’
‘We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel,’ declares Danny Danon of US Democratic frontrunner, who had called Netanyahu a ‘reactionary racist’ SOURCE: TIMES OF ISRAEL […]
Jewish Perspective on the Rights of Neighbors
Source: Muslim Sunrise, Fall 2016 volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The planet earth with its circumference of25,000 miles with a population […]
Bernie Sanders would be the first Jewish nominee — and he’s triggered a fight over Jewish identity
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders could become the first-ever Jewish major-party nominee. He once lived on a kibbutz. His Brooklyn accent is iconic […]
Bernie Sanders can’t be bought – his campaign is making me strangely hopeful
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN By Arwa Mahdawi Confidence in democracy has been taking a hammering, so how refreshing to see a politician with big ideas win hearts and minds Democracy did […]