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After her sophomore year, Abu-Ghaida visited Israel. Travelling as an Austrian citizen, she studied Hebrew at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "I wanted to see the land," she says...
...summer was one of tension in Israel. Abu-Ghaida was riding in a public bus when she heard that a Palestinian man had caused another bus elsewhere in the country to drive off the road. Speaking Hebrew and travelling as a foreign national, Dina--which is one of the most popular Israeli names--was able to see a side of Israelis that is invisible to most Palestinians...
True, Christian theology is occasionally tarnished by vile anti-Semitism, but then again, the Hebrew bible advises atrocious punishments for women who grab men's genitals and even commands Jews to commit genocide against the Amalekites. We should no more revile the apostles than the prophets. For Dershowitz, who sees everything through the lens of his paranoia, any whiff of anti-Semitism disqualifies all manner of good deeds...
...punished was the defiling of a virgin, and that was viewed as a property crime. A girl's virtue was a marketable asset, and so a rapist was often ordered to pay the victim's father the equivalent of her price on the marriage market. In early Babylonian and Hebrew societies, a married woman who was raped suffered the same fate as an adulteress -- death by stoning or drowning. Under William the Conqueror, the penalty for raping a virgin was castration and loss of both eyes -- unless the violated woman agreed to marry her attacker, as she was often pressured...
...happens, the range of Jewish religious opinion on homosexuality is very broad. Some movements within Judaism, notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, not only accept homosexuality but also ordain gay men and lesbian women as rabbis...