A Chabad Synagogue inside a Mosque in the Bronix
A Bronx Tale After the congregants of an Orthodox synagogue could no longer afford their rent, they found help in the local mosque.ear the corner of Westchester Avenue and Pugsley Street in...
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Wow Sophiee, thank you for the touching story! It is great to see these two very different people working together. (At least they aren't in a church!)
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I read this on the web: "Islam is not idolatry!!! It is monotheism! According to Maimonides, Islam (like Christianity) is essential in spreading the message of the existence of the One (=entirely...
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Islam doesn't worship idols. Though they give lots of veneration to their prophet, they don't worship the guy as a god. Xianity's adherents have many different beliefs. As their prophet was a man and...
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LAGoff:The Muslims stole Har HaBayit from the Byzantine Empire, which, as an extension of the Roman Empire, stole it from the Jewish people. They placed those structures on Har HaBayit to...
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Zvi wrote:The Muslims stole Har HaBayit from the Byzantine Empire, which, as an extension of the Roman Empire, stole it from the Jewish people. They placed those structures on Har HaBayit to...
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The Muslims did not steal anything in fact the Caliph Omar was horrified when he saw the Temple in ruins and used as a garbage dump, he personally started to clean up the place and restored it to the...
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Vasat:Your argument is really disingenuous. The vast majority of Muslims accuse the Israelis of stealing Muslim land when they captured the Land of Israel in defensive wars. The Muslims took that land...
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Zvi, while your post is certainly accurate, it is important to note that historically Jews were better treated by Muslims than by Christians. True, we were not treated as equals -- but there were...
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Sophiee1 wrote:The Rambam lived among the Muslims, having escaped the christians.Sophie, you are also wrong. It was not the christians that the Maimuni family were running away from when they fled...
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You are correct -- Cordova was actually in Muslim hands prior to the Almohades (a Muslim sect) who conquered Cordova in 1148.
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Sophiee1 wrote:Cordova was actually in Muslim hands prior to the Almohades (a Muslim sect)...I know, but the earlier moslem conquerors were not as fanatical as the Almohades. The Maimunis couldn’t...
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When I said the Muslims did not steal I meant they did not steal 'Har HaBayit' as you put it, because it was not used as a place of worship but a garbage dump. So what Omar did was to claim a...
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Until Israel was created the Muslims let it fall into total disrepair -- were you aware of this fact? Here are some photos from the 19th century. . .
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Vasat:Har Habayit was not abandoned by the Jewish people it was stolen from us by the Romans. The one who has been robbed of real property has the right to reclaim such property. As such, it would...
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Vasat:I didn't even notice your comparison of the way the Jews were treated by the Muslims to the way the "stranger" is treated in halacha.First, I cannot really determine what you meant by the...
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LAGoff wrote "I read this on the web: "Islam is not idolatry!!! It is monotheism! According to Maimonides, Islam (like Christianity) is essential in spreading the message of the existence of the One...
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Peterusa wrote:I have had lots of muslims come in my room and gloat how Jews worship the same G-D as the muslims since they pray in the mosque. Since islam is a terror cult this leads to more death of...
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Peterusa wrote:I have had lots of muslims come in my room and gloat how Jews worship the same G-D as the muslims since they pray in the mosque. Since islam is a terror cult this leads to more death of...
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