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Islamic Jesus, Playing Spinoza

January 14th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • Nader Talebzadeh says his film, “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” is “the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the ‘common ground’ between Muslims and Christians.” [Breitbart]
  • Rabbi Roberto Arbib (Cons.) wants to turn Tel-Aviv’s former Lorenz Café site into a gallery of Israeli and Jewish art. [Jerusalem Post]

  • The new Met director had better watch out for Holocaust restitution claims, “the biggest trouble” facing the museum. [NY Times]
  • A century ago, Holman Hunt’s “The Light of the World” was hugely popular. “Hunt’s reputation has more or less disappeared,” writes Robert Fulford, “but his best-known work still evokes another age, when a single image could touch masses of people.” [National Post]
  • German police closed a neo-Nazi rock concert. [AFP, Religionnewsblog]
  • “New Jerusalem,” the Broadway show starring Spinoza, pictured. [NY Times]

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