By Rabbi Hershy Z. Ten http://hamodia.com/2016/11/15/donald-trumps-early-thanksgiving/ Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 11:57 pm | י”ד חשון תשע”ז Donald Trump’s plane. (Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters) With the Jewish New Year just over a month behind us, and the long nights of winter closing in, Jewish communities throughout the world have begun their new cycle of the […]
theguardian: by Aina Khan — I thought my degree would be a passport to a dream job, but in Bradford the ladder of social mobility was always out of reach Bradford, Yorkshire. ‘Not only are Muslim women subject to high levels of unemployment and poverty, but discrimination on the basis […]
NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU — CHAKWAL: Built in 1860, a historic mosque in Dulmial village was rechristened a ‘place of worship’ in 1974, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslim. The building, which saw mob violence on Dec 12 that left two dead and three injured, may now […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP TUNIS The Tunisian government on Sunday said that foreigners were behind the murder of a Tunisian engineer, after the Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Israel was behind his death. “The investigations concerning the assassination of Tunisian citizen Mohamed Zaouari and the latest findings have proven […]
‘We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction,’ former Iraqi ruler told CIA Will Worley The US “got it wrong” about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the CIA analyst who interrogated the former dictator has said. John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically […]
Source: THE DAILY SABAH The Eurasia Tunnel, one of Turkey’s most visionary mega projects, which will allow automobiles to pass beneath Istanbul’s Bosporus Strait, opens Tuesday on Dec 20, 2016, […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Dec 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The bus driver was supposed to show up at 7:30am on Sunday to pick up a group of tourists from Amman to Karak. He was late because of a technical problem, which made the tourists a little upset. […]
Reuters International DEC 19, 2016 – A woman sits with her child reading the Koran while waiting to be evacuated with others from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail (reuters_tickers) By Lisa Barrington and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Armed men burned five […]
All civilians trapped in old castle freed — Momani By Rana Husseini – Dec 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Ambulances are seen in front of the Italian Hospital in Karak, where some of the injured in a terror attack were evacuated on Sunday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Four terrorists […]
Source: Pew Research Center Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious […]
Source: Pew Research Center 23% say they have shared a made-up news story – either knowingly or not BY MICHAEL BARTHEL, AMY MITCHELL AND JESSE HOLCOMB In the wake of […]
Source: BBC Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts […]
Source: RT A number of Islamic religious groups from the Gulf States are supporting the radical Salafist movement in Germany with the suspected approval of their governments, Suddeutsche Zeitung paper […]
Source: TRT World The religious group identifies as Muslim but has been targeted for years because of beliefs which conflict with the more orthodox sects. Earlier this week, a mob […]
Source: RNS By Ben Williamson (USA Today) At this time of year, we often see animals subjected to cruel holiday stunts or treated as living props in our confusing pageantry. […]
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Dr. Christina Puchalski is familiar with death. The palliative care doctor and founder of the George Washington Institute for […]
By GEETA ANANDDEC. 17, 2016, NYTimes.com MUMBAI, India — In India, where corruption is a fact of life, the Tata Group — a powerhouse conglomerate that makes Land Rovers, operates the historic Pierre Hotel in New York and sells the world Tetley tea — has been held up as the exception to the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Christian Easter story mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in this article. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Allah created mankind and took it upon Himself to guide them, as He says in the Qur’an, […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The more we know and learn about John the Baptist, more apparent it becomes that Pauline dogma […]