Word: jewish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arafat to move. It continued its assassinations Thursday, killing Atef Abayat, the leader of the Palestinian militia Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, whom Israel blames for killing at least five Israelis. Abayat's booby-trapped car exploded in Bethlehem. In response, Palestinian gunmen in nearby Beit Jala fired on the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem throughout the night. Israel moved its tanks deep into Bethlehem and Beit Jala by Friday. Israeli tanks were on the move around other Palestinian towns...
...rather than a belligerent heart, formed the hallmark of the Prophet’s dealings with the peaceful non-Muslim communities around him. So impressed, for example, were the Jews of Medina with the fairness of the Prophet that they often asked him to resolve their disputes according to Jewish law. The tolerance inherent in Islam lived on long after the Prophet. When the Spanish Inquisition drove the Jews (and Muslims) out of Spain, they found refuge in the Ottoman Empire, where many served in high official positions...
...native of South Florida, Horowitz came to the area to attend Northeastern and moved to Central Square after college. After graduation, he joined the staff of the Jewish Advocate, a Boston-based weekly newspaper, which he currently edits...
...Michael Chabon's pulitzer prizewinning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Josef Kavalier flees fascism in Europe for America, where he creates the Escapist, a comic-book hero based on the Golem of Prague, the clay giant and protector of ancient Jewish legend. Mythic defenders, Chabon shows, have long been with us. But it took America to make them into superheroes: big, magical men (and sometimes women) who protect us and embody our national character...
...Israel was created “as a safe haven after the atrocities of World War II.” While this may be true, the entire concept of Zionism—dating back long before the Second World War—is based on the concept that the Jewish people have a right to live in their historic homeland. When Europeans came to America, they were exercising no such right, and held none of the historical, religious or cultural claims that the Jewish people hold to the land of Israel. Cheever’s analogy is thus faulty...