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In Persia, during the Safavid dynasty of the 16th and 17th centuries, Jews were forced to proclaim publicly that they had converted to Islam, and were given the name Jadid-al-Islam (New Muslims). In 1661, an Islamic edict was issued overturning these forced conversions , and the Jews returned to practicing Judaism openly.
"Hanukkah is a Jewish festival of lighting lights during the darkest time of the year. Just as on Christmas, we talk about the star of Bethlehem and about Jesus being a new light. We all want to ...
In such a line of argument, no clash of interpretations between Judaism and Islam can arise. [56] [57] In addition, Lewis argues that the Quran lacks popular Western traditions of 'guilt and betrayal'. [53] Rosenblatt and Pinson suggest that the Quran teaches toleration of Judaism as a fellow monotheistic faith. [58]
Many rabbis were drawn into controversies with both Jews and non-Jews, and had to fortify their faith against the attacks of contemporaneous philosophy as well as against rising Christianity. The Mishnah ( c. 200 CE ) excludes from the world to come the Epicureans and those who deny belief in resurrection or in the divine origin of the Torah ...
The Hanukkah Story. According to Jewish tradition, after the Jews won back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...
The Jewish people continued to celebrate the temple rededication annually, but it would take another 250 years before Hanukkah came to be known as the Festival of Lights, a term coined by the ...
Happy Hanukkah! Here's what you need to know about the Jewish holiday including when it is, what it means and more.
Maimonides, one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why Muhammad was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in persecution from followers of these new faiths as they attempted to supplant Judaism (in the case of Christianity, called Supersessionism).