Jewish Studies

  The report by Defense for Children International (DCI), a Geneva-based NGO focusing on children’s rights, noted that 35 children were killed and 83 others injured by Israeli troops in 2016. It warned that Israeli forces are not being held accountable for using firearms against the Palestinian protesters and stone-throwers. …

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Parliament Deputy General for International Affairs, made the remarks at a meeting with the visiting Head of Iran-Mauritania Parliamentary Friendship Group Mohammad Valad Fal. Early into the joint meeting, Iran’s Amir-Abdollahian pointed to the significance of political, economic and cultural ties between the Islamic Republic of …

  A Palestinian non-governmental organization says Israel is holding nearly 350 minors, among them children as young as 15, in prisons and detention facilities across the occupied territories.

    A senior UN official says Israel, which is widely believed to possess hundreds of atomic bombs, should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty within five years. “I’m putting five years as the longest it should take now based on the positive sign that I’m seeing from Israel,” Lassina …

A green road sign reads “Jerusalem” in English, Urshalim in Arabic letters while the name (al-Quds) is besieged between brackets. Of course the Hebrew transcription is at the top. Other signs exclude the Arabic name for the holy city. For some, the translation is nothing but a way to address …

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Thursday, several Palestinian cities and towns in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped six Palestinians. The soldiers also attacked schoolchildren, near Bethlehem, and detained them.

It is the al-Aqsa mosque again… whilst the Arabs are absent. They aren’t all asleep this time, or spending long vacations across Europe, they are rather awake and following up, they are even engaged in the wars! These wars are in different battlefields, except in Palestine. They are the fields …

Research Scholar in Islamic HistoryDepartment of Islamic HistoryIslamic Research FoundationThe Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.)Mashhad, IRANPurim is a Jewish religious festival and holiday that commemorates the aborting of plan by Haman, royal vizier to King Xerxes I (Khashayar Shah) of Iran, who reigned in the Achaemenid Iranian Empire from …

Understanding the Universal Abrahamic Religion: Bringing Together Ahl al- Kitab and attracting their Attention to the Need for UnityText of the speech of Professor Muhammad Taqi Ja‘fari at the conference on Islam and Christianity held in Switzerland on the November 27th, 1995. A major portion of this speech was first …

New York, USAThe Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is our Frankenstein. The United States after a decade of war in Iraq pieced together its body parts. We jolted it into life. We bathed it in blood and trauma. And we gave it its intelligence. Its dark and vicious …