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Amid Controversy, Muslims Revive Old Jerusalem Pilgrimage Route

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 04.30.2012

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JERUSALEM -- After decades of shying away from an ancient pilgrimage route, Muslims are visiting Jerusalem to pray at Islam's third-holiest site, the ...

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Clashes At Holy Site

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 04.25.2012

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JERUSALEM — Israeli police clashed with hundreds of Palestinians throwing rocks after Muslim prayers at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site on ...

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Israel Reopens Contested Ramp

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 02.13.2012

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JERUSALEM — Israel on Wednesday reopened a temporary walkway leading to Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, just two days after closing it, de...

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Disputed Ramp In Jerusalem Ordered Closed

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 02.11.2012

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JERUSALEM — Israel closed a pedestrian walkway next to Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site on Monday before work to replace it, despite vehemen...

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Massacre At Jerusalem -- Do The Crusades Still Matter?

Jay Rubenstein | Posted 02.01.2012

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For better or worse, we remember the First Crusade now. But how should we do so? What did the battle of Jerusalem mean in 1099, and why should we care today?

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Navigating the Sacred and the Dangerous in the Holy Land

Kazim Ali | Posted 09.22.2011

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Nothing is simple in this place and the more you find out about what is actually happening here -- not in history or in legend but in the immediate daily lives of people living in the place -- the more complicated things become.

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Muslims Celebrate Lailat al Miraj

Posted 08.28.2011

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Lailat al Miraj is a Muslim holiday that commemorates the Prophet Muhammad's nighttime journey from Mecca to the 'Farthest Mosque' in Jerusalem where ...

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Palestinians Remove Claim To Western Wall After U.S. Objects

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) The Palestinian government has pulled a report stating that Jews have no historic connection ...

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Muslims, Jews Clash In Jerusalem

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian stone-throwers at two contested holy sites and in a West Bank village Friday, seriously inju...

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ReThink Review: Waiting for Armageddon -- the End of the World As They Want It

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

As a person who is not religious, it seems to me that the major difference between a cult and a religion is popularity. And as the documentary Waiting...

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Israel Deploys Thousands Of Police To Secure Jerusalem After Days Of Clashes With Palestinians

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israeli police mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem on Tuesday, deploying thousands of offi...

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