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My first real experience of the patriarch Abraham's crossover appeal came on the splendid sun-spangled day in June when I took a crosstown cab to arrange my son's circumcision. Jews have circumcised for thousands of years--ever since God (as the Torah tells it), having made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

Judaism and Islam, for starters, cannot even agree on which son he almost sacrificed. Then there is Abraham's Covenant with God. Many Jews (and some conservative Christians) believe it granted the Jewish people alone the right to the Holy Land. That belief fuels much of the Israeli settler movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

The basic difference between preterists and the futurists who believe in the theories of the Left Behind book series [SOCIETY, July 1] is that the futurists deny or ignore the clear time statements of the Bible. The last days were simply the last days of the old Jewish covenant, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 2002 | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

Evangelicals have long supported the existence of the Jewish state. Fundamentalists believe that Israel is a covenant land promised to the Jews by God. "It doesn't belong to a group called the Palestinians," Pat Robertson said last month. To Evangelicals, the attacks on Israel by Palestinian suicide bombers are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right's New Crusade | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

First-year law student Kiwi A. Camara posted a course outline on a website. In his outline, Camara referred to a case involving restrictive racial covenants by writing, “Nigs buy land w/ no nig covenant; Q: enforceable?” When another student filed a complaint about...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, JASON L. STEORTS | Title: Shades of Offense | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

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