“Key Findings From the Gallup Muslim-West Perceptions Index”
Watch Gallup Senior Analyst Dalia Mogahed’s presentation on the relationship between Muslims and the West.
Watch Gallup Senior Analyst Dalia Mogahed’s presentation on the relationship between Muslims and the West.
The blog Tracing the Tribe focuses on Jewish genealogy and was named one of the best websites for 2008 by Family Tree Magazine. Schelly Talalay Dardashti runs the blog.
JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy is a comprehensive website affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. JewishGen provides links to numerous resources, including a database of 400,000 surnames and towns, a Family Tree of the Jewish People that has nearly 4 million listings, and some local genealogical societies. Warren […]
The popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the so-called “Arab Spring” that endured through the summer of 2011, had for some in the West recast Muslims and Islamic societies as promoters of democracy and values that resonate with Americans.
The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies provides links to dozens of U.S. genealogical groups. Michael Goldstein is president of the international group.
Read an April 24, 2013, column on CNN’s website about the Boston marathon bombing and how terrorist acts are quickly and inaccurately categorized as “Muslim extremism.”
The website ReligiousTolerance.org explores the diversity of beliefs about human sexuality among faith groups and the unaffiliated.
The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute offers reference works, databases and workshops for researching family histories. The institute is in the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
A Gallup Poll published in August 2011 showed the views of members of different religious communities to the question of whether terrorist violence is ever justified. Nearly nine in 10 Muslim Americans said violent attacks on civilians are never justified, the highest level of disapproval among the groups surveyed.