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...past five years, efforts to improve ties between Roman Catholicism and Judaism have been disrupted by turmoil over the presence of 14 Carmelite nuns at the site of the infamous Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The nuns maintain a convent just outside the camp's barbed-wire perimeter, in a red brick building that once housed canisters of deadly Zyklon B gas. Their mission: to pray for all the Nazis' victims, including the 6 million Jews who died in concentration camps. But the establishment of a Christian institution at a place that will forever symbolize Jewish martyrdom has stirred...
...tales of life in Beirut are less subtle and more hard-hitting than the section on Jerusalem, which meanders between various explanations of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the conflicts within Judaism in Israel and the unique relationship between American Jews and Israelis...
...consensus in Israeli politics, highlighted by the Labor-Likud coalition governments which have glossed over the deep-rooted divisions in the country--divisions based on how much Israel should be based on Judaism...
Twersky, who received a full year fellowship, said he planned to study "the relationship between Jewish law, which is the core of Judaism and various meta-legal systems." His research will culminate in a book about Jewish law, philosophy and mysticism, he said...
Soviet Muslims are cautiously regaining their long-suppressed public voice. -- A photo essay explores Christianity and Judaism...