Judaism and Islam
Judaism and the Majority Culture

Like Christianity, Islam was a proselytizing religion, but “conversion by the sword” was an Islamic invention. Yet in spite of this, for centuries, the Jews fared better under Moslem rule than under Christian, mainly because they made themselves useful. Rabbi Wein leads us through the labyrinth history of Moslem-Jewish relations, taking us up to the current crises both in Israel and the world at large.