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Nigerian Muslim downsizing wives corps from 86 to 4
Former Muslim to lead Baptist college
Muslim dating service on JewishJournal.com
Nigerian Muslim has 86 wives
Writing about the Prophet Muhammad still off-limits
Muslim woman punches Christian preacher
Obama’s Muslim liaison quits
‘24’ producer Howard Gordon : Our only politics is to have an exciting show
" . . .We had a visit from a high-ranking West Point officer, who said that his cadets were not only great fans of our show but were actually taking their cues from Jack Bauer. That was very disconcerting . . ."
The interview: Hamas scion explains conversion to Christianity, respect for Israel
Hamas scion converts to Christianity, respects Israel
Rabbi: Saudi king’s invitation for dialogue ‘must be seized’
Islamic terrorism’s tipping point in India
Third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam’s sake
Quran’s description of Jews as ‘apes’ and ‘swine’
A Jew argues for Sharia in England
Heavy Metal Islam: the book
On the sly, abortions up in Mideast
The trouble with seeking Muslim moderates in Iraqi prisons
Islamic tales of forbidden love, lovers
Early in "A Jihad for Love," a new documentary directed by Parvez Sharma and produced by Sandi Simcha Dubowski, we meet Mazen, a 20-something Egyptian man who has fled Cairo for Paris to avoid the three-year prison sentence authorities want to impose on him because he is gay.
The inner jihad: Islamic extremism attacks itself
Muslim women surgically ‘restore’ virginity
Muslims leading the war on terror
The ‘sexy’ jihadist
Summer reading: ‘No god but God’
U.S. sniper used Quran for target practice
Sectarian bloodshed in a familiar place: Lebanon
Sitting down with NY’s most influential Muslim
History disproves myth that founding Zionists were naive
We are often told, mostly by anti-Israel propagandists, that the early Zionists' attitude toward the indigenous Arab population in Palestine was laden with ignorance, naivete, denial, contempt, abuse and outright oppression. Afif Safieh, the PLO representative to the United States, tells audiences on campus after campus: "[Palestinians] have suffered three successive denials -- a denial of their mere physical existence, a denial of their national rights and, the most morally disturbing, a denied recognition of their pain and suffering."
Muslim creationist gets three years prison time
Lord Hameed: suicide bombings ‘un-Islamic’
Iranian Jews uneasy on Obama’s offer to ‘engage’ Iran
With Iran a hot topic in the U.S. presidential race this year, the candidates' foreign policy statements are being examined closely by everyone, not least the Iranian Jewish community. Comments by Democratic frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), in particular, have left many Iranian Jews reluctant to support his candidacy.
Egypt-born Arab-American woman fights Islamic culture of hate
Before Sept. 11, 2001, Nonie Darwish led the quiet life of a suburbanite with three kids, a husband and a dog. But that all changed when Darwish, just returned from a trip to Egypt the day before, discovered that one of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on the United States was Muhammad Atta, an Egyptian from Cairo, her hometown.
Islam’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’—sort of
What traveling to Mecca does to Muslims
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for April 26-May 2
Winner of the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, "Jellyfish" is another example of the remarkable cinematic explosion of Israeli films garnering
The other refugees
Is there a more loaded word in the Arab-Israeli conflict than "refugee"
Sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’
‘Ain’t no Darwin fish’
That anti-Islam film getting all the attention
Cartoonist a catalyst for ‘adaptation of Islam’
Pope baptizes pro-Israel Muslim
‘Why Shariah?’
McCain supporter draws more bad press
The tale of three former terrorists
Turkey moves to modernize Islam
Muslims and Christians worship the same God?
For sale: ‘Sketch that roiled the Muslim world’
‘Terrorism is the lousiest shortcut to failure’
A Muslim at Hebrew College
Scholar: Muslims will vote Obama
UC Irvine student: ‘Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth’
The religious impetus for a sovereign Kosovo
Muhammad cartoon returns two years later
Anglican leader suggests Sharia for England?
‘Covering Islam remains a struggle’
Bowing down for business
Muslim piety and race policy collide *
Film would make Muhammad cartoon controversy look like ‘a picnic’
Islam, Indy and Da Vinci
The American wives of Saudi men
It’s time to (re)open dialogue with Islam
I am a Jew of Islam. Not an Arab Jew, mind you, since that term makes as much sense as Slavic or Baltic or Arian Jew, but a Jew of Islam. It is not only because in my family's veins runs the blood of people who lived in Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, nor because among my congregants there are natives of Bahrain and Indonesia.
Malaysian Christians can call God ‘Allah’
‘Honor killing’ not Islam’s fault
Effort to destroy Old Damascus
Muslim Americans feel left out of campaign Godtalk
The danger of being gay in Iraq
‘Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab’
Hirsi Ali: Where are the Muslim moderates?
A pig named Muhammad, er, Bill Keller
Romney doesn’t want a Muslim Cabinet official
Double the lashings for gang-rape victim
One courageous Palestinian freedom fighter
Muslim massacre in Hindu India
‘The New Wars of Religion’
Muslim leader: Western Wall part of mosque
America is her God
Quote for the ages
Quote of the day
Refugees in their own land
Where is the Muslim Adam Sandler?
‘HATE MUSLIMS? SO DO WE!!!’
Pious Muslims serving Western sinners
Palestinian Christian murdered for selling Bibles
Who exactly are ‘militant atheists’ attacking?
Hollywood’s Arab typecast: terrorist
Islam gains ‘foot’hold at NYU
‘Aliens in America’ and ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’
Pew: Americans know little about Muslims, Mormons
The intersection of God and grades
Briefs: New chairman at Jewish Federation, AskMusa reaches out to Muslims
Community Briefs
The fastest growing religion
‘How a Muslim billionaire thrives in Hindu India’
Time has come to stress Islam’s positive side
We know nothing of Islam -- nothing. That is why we must educate our members, and we need your help. And we hope in doing so we will set an example for all Americans. Because the time has come to put aside what the media says is wrong with Islam and to hear from Muslims themselves what is right with Islam. The time has come to listen to our Muslim neighbors speak from their heart and in their own words about the spiritual power of Islam and their love for their religion.
‘Mideast peace through porn’
Another Muhammad cartoon controversy
Televangelist loses broadcast after slamming Islam
Britons aren’t Islamophobic but Semitophobic
My take on Mark Lilla’s ‘Stilborn God’
Bringing banking in line with Islamic law
To a Muslim leader, Israel is ‘Satan’
Jew becomes ‘radical Muslim’ and falls back
Bishop: Christians should call God ‘Allah’
‘God’s Warriors’ to invade primetime
More religious bloodshed in Iraq
Suing to make conversion official in Egypt
Seeking better sex from a Muslim sage
Summer reading—Goldberg’s ‘Prisoners’
‘What self-hating Jews can teach Muslims’
Polygamy, that’s more a Mid East Islam thing
Why are terrorists so dumb?
Muslim meatpackers fired for praying
‘Stupidest fatwas’
Turkey’s Islamic (r)evolution
It’s official: the LA Times hates Israel
‘Keeping those Muslims out of our country’
Rabbi’s existence causes uproar in Egypt
Question for the day
The Muslim challenge to evolution
Elijah the prophet: Hunting for a gay man to kill
Saudis to behead nanny
Israel and the LA Times
The rise of Republican Jews
Iran pulling strings to create Mideast turmoil
What do all the current threats facing the Middle East -- the Hamas takeover in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah's bid for power in Lebanon, political turmoil in Iraq and imminent nu- clear weapons in the hands of a radical dictatorship -- all have in common? Answer: Iran.
Mosque gets restraining order against ‘crazy’ convert
Hamas depicts Israelis killing ‘Mickey Mouse’
Religions: Different paths to the same point?
Dept. of No-Duh
Gaza Christians ready to flee
Salman Rushdie can’t catch a break
‘Have you prayed for bin Laden today?’
Malibu conference on Europe sees threats in ‘multiculturalism’
The scholars, journalists and concerned citizens were there for a conference whose title could hardly be weightier or more ominous: "The Collapse of Europe, the Rise of Islam, and the Consequences for the United States."
Mid East meltdown
‘I am both Muslim and Christian’
It’s hip to be anti-Muslim
The breast-feeding fatwa
Two arrested for Danny Pearl’s murder
Pew Poll finds some U.S. Muslims support suicide bombing
When Pew asked respondents whether "suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies," 78 percent of all U.S. Muslims flatly condemned such attacks; 9 percent declined to answer or said they didn't know. But 8 percent of all Muslims -- and 15 percent of younger Muslims -- said attacks on civilians were justified "often" or "sometimes."
Did religious differences lead to ghastly murders?
Long Beach MSA leader: ‘Blowing yourself up not something everyone has the courage to do’ *
Moderate Muslim leader dead *
Muslim attitudes *
The stoning in Iraq
Muslim run-down at UC Irvine
Final Falwell: On Islam
‘The Terrorists Next Door?’
UC Irvine safe for Jews
Mickey’s anti-Semitic outburst
If Turkey were secular
War on Islam
Hedging on ‘genocide’—the plight of the Armenians
More e-mail
Islamophobia
Islam in the Hood
Is Islam a religion of war or of peace? Is it both? How did it start? What are its connections to Judaism?
Breaking new ground: Jewish, Muslim groups’ program encourages leaders to see the ‘other’ as friend
Is it possible for Los Angeles Jews and Muslims to talk to one another, to share peacefully at the table?
This is the question that some leaders of both groups locally are asking themselves.
The Importance of Accessibility
President Bush made a point of going around the table and greeting each of us personally before the "formal" meeting began. But herein lies the curious part. There really was no formal meeting.
The promise of ‘Peace in our Time’
The only reason for including Lebanon in the conversation at all is to signal to Iran and Syria that it will be offered up for grabs to them on a silver platter as well
Sex and God
Of the three major monotheistic traditions, Judaism has arguably done the most admirable job of micromanaging our lust.That's why Judaism has been more agile than other religions at handling modernity's revolution in sexual mores.
Noteworthy sessions and events at the G.A.
Noteworthy sessions and events at the General Assembly
The Maher Hathout brouhaha—what’s the end game?
Even a resolutely mediocre chess player like me knows it's not enough to have some good opening moves. To win, you need an end game. That's why this month's protest by some Jewish groups against the selection of a Muslim spokesman for a county human relations prize baffled me -- what possible end game could they have in mind?
Rabbi Wolpe fights cancer battle; Terror victim becomes advocate for others
Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple informed his congregation by letter this week that he was recently diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma; Anna Krakovich survived a suicide bomb attack to become a response team leader for SELAH; Salman Rushdie speaks out as pro-Israel Muslim; Israeli and American staff and campers at the Union for Reform Judaism's Camp Newman collaborated on recording a song titled "Kol Yisrael (We Are All Connected)."
Iconic Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci, 77
Obituary for crusading Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci.
Controversial Muslim leader Hathout gets award despite opposition
At a meeting that featured catcalls, standing ovations and the ejection of a disruptive audience member, Los Angeles' County Human Relations Commission voted again Monday to give an award to Dr. Maher Hathout, a local Muslim leader whose harsh rhetoric on Israel generated accusations of anti-Semitism and extremism.
Israeli Diplomats Reach Out to L.A. Iranian Media
Representatives from Southern California-based Persian-language satellite radio stations and television shows attended a special press conference on Aug. 28, held for them at Los Angeles' Israeli consulate, the first public interaction between the Israeli government and local Persian-language media in more than 25 years.
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Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?
With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary
Kids & Teens
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited
I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.
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Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs
Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity
Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.
Opinion
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Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always
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