Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem UFO Videos Likely A Hoax, Says Israeli TV Station

Posted 11.23.2011

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Videos of an alleged UFO in the skies above Jerusalem that took the Internet by storm in January appear to be a hoax, according to an Israeli televisi...

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Navigating the Sacred and the Dangerous in the Holy Land

Kazim Ali | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Palestine, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Muslims in Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock, Israel, Muslims in Israel, Religion News

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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Claims Of UFO Sightings Over Islamic Landmark Spark Debate

Posted 05.25.2011

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Dueling clips of a purported UFO hovering over Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, have created an online ruckus since s...

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The Beauty We Fear Part 4: From Mark Twain to Malcom X (Slideshow)

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even when Americans began to travel to Muslim lands, from the start they displayed a more diverse response to Islam and its mosques, which over the course of a century graduated from the crude to the reverent.

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The Beauty We Fear Part 2: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

By the end of the 19th century, mosques became lyrical, escapist, and hallucinogenic motifs for writers who had never even set sight on them.

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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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Israeli Police Raid Temple Mount

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside...

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Rocky Reasoning in Jerusalem

Olivia Sterns | Posted 05.25.2011

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My friend and I had wanted to visit the famous Dome of the Rock, but it was closed because a few days earlier Palestinians had thrown rocks at Jews who had entered the sacred area to pray.

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To Gain a True Affinity for Arab Jerusalem, Visit It

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Only a few tens of thousands of Arabs were able to visit Jerusalem in the past few decades while millions of Jews and non-Arab Christians are able to do so annually. How then can it "always remain Arab"?

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Rabbi To Pope: Wearing Cross To Western Wall Would Be 'Inappropriate'

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's May visit to Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has said that it is not proper to come to the sit...

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