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There's another appeal to converting to Islam: it's relatively easy. In Catholicism and Judaism, the conversion process can involve years of preparation and study. In Islam, the process is called reversion (because islam literally means "submission to God," believers hold that everyone is born Muslim), and it's mainly a matter of uttering a two-line declaration of faith, the Shahadah. Say the Shahadah aloud in Arabic, and the conversion is complete...
...Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp later on Sunday, was in many ways a tribute to his predecessor. John Paul II himself visited the death camp on his first return to Poland as Pope in 1979, an early sign of how committed he was to healing the wounds between Catholicism and Judaism. But Benedict's arrival here on Sunday was also rich with its own significance...
...concentration camp, where the occupying Nazi regime killed some 1.5 million people, most of them Jews. It is a trip that John Paul made on his first return to Poland as Pope in 1979, an early sign of a papacy committed to healing the deep wounds between Catholicism and Judaism. There will be added significance in the arrival at Auschwitz of a German-born pope who served briefly in the Hitler Youth during World War II, when membership in the Nazi paramilitary organisation was compulsory...
...experience made. It’s part of the “keep your nose down” philosophy. This movie is part of the new wave of Jewish pride—like black pride or gay pride. THC: Does your film offer a unique view of Jews or Judaism? SL: I think that the movie explodes certain stereotypes about Jews: the men are not nebbishes and the women are sexy. As for Judaism, one of the central ideas of the movie comes from the Hassidic and cabalistic traditions. The notion that Passover is not only about this pharaoh...
...After Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, he caused a stir by calling for a Palestinian state. Yet when the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and peace activist, attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real issues of society...