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September 2, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/seeing-jerusalem-anew/2011/08/30/gIQA2bdmqJ_blog.html

Seeing Jerusalem Anew

(Washington Post) Menachem Z. Rosensaft - Of course Jerusalem is sacred to Christians and Muslims as well as to Jews. But the city is central only to Judaism. During close to two decades of Jordanian rule, from 1948 until 1967, Jews were forbidden to set foot in the old city of Jerusalem and much of the Jewish Quarter was destroyed and desecrated. Today, Muslims, Christians and Jews worship here freely. The writer is Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

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