ARAB / ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS From a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims 20% of World’s Population(2 out of every 10 people)Literature1988 – Najib Mahfooz Peace1978 – Anwar El-Sadat1994 – Yasser Arafat2003 – Shirin Ebadi Chemistry 1999 – Ahmed ZewailPhysicsAbdus Salam…….. Norwegian, Kaare Kristiansen was a member of the Nobel Committee. He resigned in 1994 to protest
Read more →Author: Caroline Glick THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 24, 2008 Moshav Tzipori, in the Lower Galilee, is a microcosm of the history of the Land of Israel. A regional capital under King Herod, Tzipori was the seat of Jewish learning and the preservation of the Torah through some of the most tumultuous periods
Read more →Tisha B’Av – which falls this year on July 24 – always brings back the personal memory of a conversation between two teen-aged cousins more than thirty years ago. It took place on the outskirts of a non-religious kibbutz in the Galilee, on a hill overlooking a
Read more →Author: Rabbi Yosef Eisen INNERNET MAGAZINEhttp://innernet.org.ilJune 2007 * * * “THE SPANISH INQUISITION” by Rabbi Yosef Eisen * * * In the middle of the twelfth century, fanatical Almohad Muslims overran Southern Spain, causing a massive Jewish exodus to the Christian North. At first, the Christians proved
Read more →Breishit 14 Avraham and Yishmael: Why the Arabs Today’s section deals with the birth of Yishmael, recognized by both the Jews and the Arabs as the ancestor of the Arab people. Ask: Is it a good thing that the Arab people came into existence? (People might be shocked at the
Read more →Author: Avraham Goldhar and Kurt Stein 1. Introduction: Jewish History is Really World History Welcome to Aish HaTorah’s Crash Course in Jewish History. You may be surprised to know that studying Jewish history is actually something Judaism obligates us to do. “Zechor yemos olam,” says the Torah. “Remember the
Read more →The Destruction of European Jewry: A Devastation of Singular Dimensions By Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg zt’l Since 1945, the Jewish people can never again be the same. The destruction of European Jewry 60 years ago was one of those singular occurrences in Jewish history that left the Jewish people permanently
Read more →Introduction: Jewish History is Really World HistoryWelcome to Aish HaTorah’s Crash Course in Jewish History.The study of Jewish History is actually something Judaism obligates us to do. “Zechor yemos olam,” says the Torah. “Remember the days of history,” Binu shenos dor vador. * “Understand the years of
Read more →Goal: Illustrate the evil of a hedonist view of life and contrast it with the Jewish view of life. Secondary goal: Illustrate the role psychology has played in legitimizing evil. Teacher’s note: You’re goring some sacred cows here. Go carefully. Ask your class to read Genesis 25,19 —
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