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Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Professor Larry Levine’s response to the article ‘Superstitions of the Talmud’ authored by Muhammad ‘Abbūd. Levine comments on the misperceptions in the original article, and provides clarification behind some Jewish traditions and stories in the Talmud.
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2007
The article is based on a review of a newly published Arabic translation of the famous Jewish book the Talmud entitled, ‘Qasas al-Yahūd’ [Stories of Jews]. It discusses the traditions, both oral and written, that make up the stories of the Talmud.
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2003
The author recounts the stories of five Jewish Israelis who converted to Islam, and the difficulties they met after conversion, as they are published in full details in an Israeli newspaper.
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2003
The Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Muhammad was accused of anti-Semitism due to his statements about Jews which did not deter him from making other statements against Jews during the last meeting of the Malaysian cabinet he presided. Muhammad criticized the Jews for persecuting Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2003
The author reports that the Israeli police recently arrested a Jewish man claiming that he is the Messiah after torching a number of synagogues. He gave examples of the many people who claimed to have been messiahs in the Jewish history.
Date of source: Sunday, May 26, 2002
The head of the Hebrew Studies Department at Ain Shams University compiled the “Encyclopedia of Jewish Religious Terms.” The encyclopedia contains 800 Jewish religious terms. Some of these terms cover the concept of war in Judaism. They show that a great part of Jews’ wars are religious ones.
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
The idea of translating the Talmud, the holiest book for Jews, has always remained the dream of many Egyptian and Arab intellectuals.
Dr. Rashad Abdullah Al-Shami, the chairman of the first department specialized in teaching Hebrew and Israeli studies at Ain Shams University, discovered an Arabic...
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.