Islam divides the world into two conceptual geographies, Dar Al Islam, house of Islam and Dar Al Harb, house of war. The ...

(RNS) — It was an amazing day in the life of a democratic country. (RNS) — In Israel Sunday (Aug. 17), as many as 500,000 people took to the streets — the per capita equivalent of 34 million U.S.

The other day I wrote about the different headlines Jewish news outlets in the US were putting on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s story about former President George W. Bush’s appearance at the ...

Israel is more united than it has been in years. Numerous wars, missiles falling, and victorious battles have brought the ...

As many readers of Religion Dispatches are likely aware, The Forward recently published a couple of pieces portraying Christian Zionism A strand of Christian thought which holds that the State of ...

It has been three months since the ceasefire was announced in Palestine, imposed as a consequence of Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan. In November, the United Nations Security Council ratified this ...

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