Jerusalem

A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion;    LOUIS JACOBS;   547 words ...Jerusalem The holy city, Heb. ir hakodesh ; sacred in itself and...see HOLY PLACES ). There is no explicit reference to Jerusalem in the Pentateuch but the city Salem of which Melchizedek...Genesis 14: 18), is identified by the tradition with Jerusalem, of which Salem is said to be an abbreviated or ...

My Jerusalem

Jerusalem Post;  May 11, 2007 ;   Liat Collins;   787 words ...Liat Collins Jerusalem Post 05-11-2007 Headline: My Jerusalem Byline: Liat Collins Edition; International Section...suspicious after seeing her place of birth listed as Jerusalem. Until that encounter, he had never realized that Jerusalem...

What it takes to be Jerusalem's mayor

Jerusalem Post;  January 1, 2008 ;   GERSHON BASKIN;   787 words ...GERSHON BASKIN Jerusalem Post 01-01-2008 Headline: What it takes to be Jerusalem's mayor Byline: GERSHON BASKIN Edition; Daily...Tuesday, January 1, 2008 -- If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither, let my tongue cleave...

Revive Jerusalem

Jerusalem Post;  June 5, 2005 ;     743 words ...Jerusalem Post 06-05-2005 Headline: Revive Jerusalem Edition; Daily Section: Opinion Page: 13 Sunday, June...Nevertheless, despite the festivities, the state of Jerusalem cannot instill excessive cheer in Israeli hearts. On...

Jews mustn't give up keys to Jerusalem

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 11, 2000 ;   Yossi Klein Halevi;   756 words ...JERUSALEM A majority in today's pragmatic Israel is prepared to...ideological Israel is unable to make: repartitioning Jerusalem. Instinctively, most Israelis realize that Jewish history never would forgive the generation that reunited Jerusalem if it were to voluntarily agree to its dismemberment...

Jerusalem in quotes

Washington Jewish Week;  January 3, 2008 ;   Leibel, Aaron;   586 words ...Jerusalem in quotes The Jerusalem Book of Quotations: A 3,000-Year Perspective by Jack Friedman. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House: 2007. 247 pp. $24.95. If you've never seen the sun come up over Jerusalem and illuminate its glistening stones; never...

IN JERUSALEM, POPE DELIVERS MESSAGE OF COEXISTENCE

The Boston Globe;  March 22, 2000 ;   Charles M. Sennott, GLOBE STAFF;   780 words ...JERUSALEM - Pope John Paul II's historic pilgrimage through the...spiritual significance embodied in the stone ramparts of Jerusalem's Old City has also made it the most fought-over plot...he landed here, these intense and competing claims to Jerusalem - political and spiritual - were boiling to the ...

Jerusalem agenda

Jerusalem Post;  July 29, 1998 ;   MOSHE ZAK;   773 words ...MOSHE ZAK Jerusalem Post 07-29-1998 The Conference of Islamic...been called to discuss the question of Jerusalem and should be viewed by us as an integral...Israel. Nothing untoward has occurred in Jerusalem which necessitates such urgent Islamic...

Jerusalem: The Christian Holy City

Judaism;  April 1, 1997 ;   Robert L Wilken;   787 words ...CHRISTIAN JERUSALEM IS AT ONCE A FACT OF HISTORY and a work...history. When the Persians occupied Jerusalem in 614 C.E. it was a Christian monk...lamented was not a heavenly city, the new Jerusalem, but the actual city of stone and wood...

Jerusalem in History

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  March 1, 2001 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ...Jerusalem In History By K.J. Asali (ed.), Olive Branch Press, 2000...better time to publish a slightly updated edition of Jerusalem In History than the year 2000, marked as it was by the...years after the original publication of this volume on Jerusalem's history, the failure of the Camp David talks made ...

Jerusalem of (Dore) Gold

Jerusalem Post;  May 11, 2007 ;   JONATHAN SCHANZER;   787 words ...JONATHAN SCHANZER Jerusalem Post 05-11-2007 Headline: Jerusalem of (Dore) Gold Byline: JONATHAN SCHANZER Edition; Jerusalem Day Supplement Section: Books Page: 72 Friday, May 11, 2007 -- The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West and the...

Jerusalem becomes focal point of crisis

The Arab American News;  July 3, 1998 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ...Jerusalem becomes focal point of crisis BY RAMI KHOURY The battle for Jerusalem has re-emerged this month as the immediate focal point...Oslo peace accord's designating the negotiations over Jerusalem as a final status issue to be resolved after the current...

Our Jerusalem

Jerusalem Post;  September 24, 1999 ;   LIMOR LIVNAT;   787 words ...LIMOR LIVNAT Jerusalem Post 09-24-1999 First Burger King said it is closing its branch in the Jerusalem suburb of Ma'aleh Adumim. Next, Sprint...mistakenly" showed the Old City walls of Jerusalem. And now it appears that the Walt Disney...

Don't blame Jerusalem for being multi-cultural

Jerusalem Post;  July 24, 2008 ;   NATHAN DIAMENT;   764 words ...NATHAN DIAMENT Jerusalem Post 07-24-2008 Headline: Don't blame Jerusalem for being multi-cultural Byline: NATHAN DIAMENT Edition...In the wake of the recent bulldozer attacks on Jerusalem streets, some suggest that Israel's expansion of...

Jerusalem's Spiritual Geography: Karen Armstrong, a `freelance...

The New York Jewish Week;  May 24, 1996 ;   Brawarsky, Sandee;   787 words ...Jerusalem's Spiritual Geography: Karen Armstrong, a `freelance...New York City from her native London and talking about Jerusalem, author Karen Armstrong appears to be on the urban circuit...best-selling "The History of God," New York is not a holy place. Jerusalem is her capital, and the subject of her ...