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Interfaith Panel Held on Abraham


Leaders of three faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—met together yesterday to discuss the different ways Abraham is discussed in each of the religious traditions at USC Hillel. The panel included Rabbi Reuven Firestone, professor of medieval Judaism at the Hebrew Union College and co-director of the USC Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement; Imam Jihad Turk, director of […]

Conservapedia hurts cause by rewriting Bible


These days, not even the bible is immune to an overly enthusiastic editor’s pen. This is the case with Conservapedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia designed with a pro-American, conservative Christian ideology in mind. Citing liberal bias in current translations, the site recently started a project to retranslate the Bible. Self-heralded as “the watchdog of the […]