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Dec 20, 2020, 12:39 PM

Heralding the dramatic educational changes in the Arab world

A Palestinian child stands on the illustrations of the British Union flag, the Israeli flag, and an American flag during a protest against the American peace plan in the Middle East, in Gaza City. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Jewish News)

Until recently, Saudi textbooks presented Islam as the only true religion and denounced Jews and Christians as enemies of Muslims

Jul 10, 2020, 11:10 AM

Judaism and racism

Rabbi David Rosen

The Genesis story tells of how all creatures were created as couples except for the human being who was initially created singly and only subsequently becomes a couple. This would appear to be in order to emphasize the idea that male and female complete one...

Dec 10, 2018, 5:31 PM

Chanukah miracles in the UAE

Rabbi David Rosen in the UAE over Chanukah

Some remarkable interfaith initiatives have recently been coming out of the Arab Muslim world – not least of all those led by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, recently appointed as head of the UAE’s supreme Fatwa Council. This octogenarian Islamic scholar, a former Mauritanian Minister and...

Mar 16, 2017, 2:39 PM

Is any meat today kosher?

Is your pastrami really kosher? (iStock)

Virtually all animal products are the result of practices that categorically contravene Jewish law and ethics

Oct 19, 2016, 6:46 PM

Sir Sigmund led a revolution in interfaith

Sir Sigmund Sternberg personified some of the greatest transformations that have taken place in and for the Jewish world in our times. Not least of these was and is the revolution in Christian and particularly Catholic attitudes and teaching towards Jews and Judaism; and he...

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Rabbi David Rosen is an advisor on interfaith relations and former Chief Rabbi of Ireland