Here is a small piece from an article written by Dr. Sandra Alfonsi of Hadassah. (You can find the entire article on the internet by entering one of these sentences in the search box, but you'll have to click on CACHED to get it:) ==== In recent years, American education has shifted from its Judeo-Christian orientation to the promotion of Islam as the dominant world religion.
...In fact, Islam seems to be the driving force in American education today, especially after 9/11. This textual privileging of Islam has one aim: to sanitize and aggrandize Islamic history. .... In addition, global studies and world history textbooks teach revisionist history of Israel from biblical times to the present. My recent one-page piece on this topic can be read here: http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1305 Andrea Rapp Isaac M. Wise Temple Cincinnati, Ohio [PLEASE SIGN YOUR MESSAGES] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
