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Slouching Toward Bethlehem 2000 |
| Issue: 1996, Volume 29, Issue 5 |
| Subject: Bethlehem|Holy Land |
| Author: Bailey, Betty and Martin |
| Issue Description: Ever been to the Holy Land? Ever think of going? Chances are you’ll get on a tourist bus, get off at Manger Square, see the traditional site of Jesus’birth, buy a few souvenirs, whisked back on the bus, and move on to the next holy place. In this issue, the authors suggest that, while you may see the site of Jesus’birth, but you have not walked in the footsteps of Jesus. |
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In the Land of Christ Christianity Is Dying |
| Issue: 1995, Volume 28, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Christianity|Holy Land|Jerusalem|Land and Homes |
| Author: Halsell, Grace |
| Issue Description: In this Link, Halsell explains the reasons for the precipitous decline in the proportion of Christians— the “Living Stones”— in the land of their origin. She also comments on how Christian visitors to the Holy Land are systematically routed around their co-religionists. As one of 630 Christians who flew to Israel in 1983 on a Holy Land tour sponsored by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Halsell observed that during her tour by bus, not one Christian guide was provided, nor was time allocated to meet Christian Palestinians or attend a Christian services. She writes: ”On the day we approached Nazareth, where Jesus grew up and had his ministry, our guide said, ‘There is Nazareth.’He added we would not stop. ‘No time,’he said. Minutes later, he changed his mind, announcing: ‘We will stop in Nazareth. To use the toilet facilities.’Thus, the only site the Christians saw in all of Nazareth were the toilets. |
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A Survivor for Whom Never Again Means Never Again [An Interview with Israel Shahak] |
| Issue: 1995, Volume 28, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Holocaust|Interviews |
| Author: Dow, Mark |
| Issue Description: Israel Shahak is a Nazi concentration camp survivor, a renowned chemist, and Israeli citizen. He has been called a prophet, a Renaissance man, and a self-hating Jew. However, he’d rather be known for his thoughts on democracy, fascism, ethnicity and human rights — which is what he focuses on in this issue. |
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Teaching About the Middle East |
| Issue: 1995, Volume 28, Issue 4 |
| Subject: Education |
| Author: Barlow, Elizabeth |
| Issue Description: Teachers, libraries and students comprise about 25 percent of our readership. The Link is also listed in various educational directories that offer teachers free and inexpensive curricular materials. And teachers do write to us. What we never could send them — because, as far as we know, none existed — was a concise up-to-date survey of the best resources available for teaching about the culture, history, and current events in the Middle East. Now we can, thanks to Elizabeth Barlow. |
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