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A bar mitzvah boy reads his Torah portion at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo by Peter van der Sluijs via Wikimedia Commons.

Activist seeks to burn Torah outside Israeli embassy in Sweden

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Swedish police have received a request to burn a Torah book in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, officials said Wednesday. The request follows the burning of a Koran outside the main mosque in...
A miniature 10th-century Koran. Credit: Courtesy of the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

Doubled in 2021: Online visits to National Library of Israel in Arabic top 2...

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The National Library of Israel (NLI) said 2021 saw a significant increase in Arab users of its website and online resources across the Arab world, within Israel and globally. Compared to the previous year, 2021...
A view of the Al-Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Credit: Andrew Shiva via Wikimedia Commons.

From Mecca to Jerusalem

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The dispute that is now rocking the Muslim world is not about whether the Prophet Muhammad’s famous “Night Journey” actually took place or was merely a dream. The current debate, which is intertwined with...