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Article: People of "the book" just like us ...(MOSAIC)(scriptures)
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- The Middle East
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- August 1, 2007
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Jews, like Muslims and Christians are regarded universally as "people of the book" (people of the Scriptures) and during a tour of some of the region's Jewish communities, Larry Luxner found that while much antipathy exists towards Israel and the Zionist policies employed by its government, there is little--if any--animosity towards Jews as a religious group. In this issue he reports on a visit to Syria.
FROM THE ROOF of a nondescript, four-storey apartment building in downtown Aleppo--amid a jumble of water tanks, power lines and satellite dishes--one can gaze down at the last remnant of one of the oldest Jewish communities on Earth.
Hebrew gravestones, ...