Two Jewish converts to Islam in the service of Bayezid II penned earliest known anti-Jewish polemicals Ottoman Empire. This article aims at exploring historical context two epistles and their connection with Islamic polemical literature. The simultaneous appearances Abd al-Salam’s Risāla al-hādiya al-Allam’s al-ilzām al-Yahūd will be discussed Sephardic influx lands, an encounter that stimulate...

The state educational system in Israel reflects the declared character of the state as a ‘Jewish state’, and, consequently, the deep inter-group divisions in society, including a large Palestinian Arab minority. This study demonstrates how Israeli educational policy and curriculum are designed to support the Jewish nation-building project. As such, they silence the Palestinian Arab narrative wh...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...

Food figures prominently in 1 Corinthians. This should not come as a surprise, since food and related concerns (e.g., commensality) are predominant in many other NT texts. In addition, it was an important issue in the Jewish communities; so important, that many of the synagogue complexes included cooking and dining facilities. In some instances, the Jewish community gathered in a renovated hous...

BACKGROUND Bedside rounds have long been a time-honored component of medical education. Recently, there have been various recommendations that residency-training programs further incorporate bedside teaching into clinical curricula. OBJECTIVES To compare these current attitudes regarding bedside education with the position of traditional Jewish law and ethics. METHODS Relevant medical journ...

During the several thousand years of Jewish history, much has been written about the nature of the Jewish concept of God. This brief section is a summary of some of the major themes. There are different definitions of the concept of "God." We do not all mean the same thing when we use the word God, even with a capital "G." While there are some similarities in the Jewish and Christian beliefs ab...

Unlinked autosomal microsatellites in six Jewish and two non-Jewish populations were genotyped, and the relationships among these populations were explored. Based on considerations of clustering, pairwise population differentiation, and genetic distance, we found that the Libyan Jewish group retains genetic signatures distinguishable from those of the other populations, in agreement with some h...