Religion
News about Judaism, faith and other religious issues around the world
The goal is to engage in conversation and explore how to protect the rights of religious minorities.
A “fatwa” (religious edict) was issued by Palestinian Islamic religious authorities accusing any Arab who sold land to Jews of “high treason.”
The Trump administration is planning to unveil its peace plan in the coming months, and administration officials have said that both sides will need to compromise. That doesn’t sit so well with the Islamic Movement in Israel.
The diverse participants, decked out in costumes representing their respective nations, had one thing in common: a love of Israel and the Jewish people.
Israel’s minorities are expressing concern because they perceive the new law as favoritism for Jewish citizens at their expense.
This past year, nearly 400,000 foreigners traveled to Zanzibar. Among them, of course, are Jews, including thousands of Israelis. Zanzibar is one of only two sub-Saharan African countries with direct flights from Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces “provides equal opportunity, regardless of where you come from, and will continue to integrate soldiers from various ethnic groups,” Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot tells Druze and Bedouin leaders amid backlash over recently enacted nation-state law.
The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia began on Sunday, with more than 2 million Muslims from around the world expected to arrive to circle the black Kaaba rock.
Food abstention and restrictions are ancient practices whose purpose and benefit span across the three Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Anu, a nonprofit group supported by the New Israel Fund and the driving force behind the prolonged anti-corruption campaign targeting Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, is also linked to the anti-nation-state law campaign.
“Most of the Druze don’t even care about the nation-state law. But there are these people who make sure to push the young people to protest. The people behind this are not part of the Druze community. They are radical left-wing activists.”
The plan was presented by Netanyahu’s acting chief of staff, Yoav Horowitz, to Druze community representatives led by spiritual head Sheikh Muafak Tarif at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
