I spent many hours working with a young woman who was trying to write about struggling with her Jewishness in a predominantly non-Jewish community.

Various elements within the gospel suggest that the author wrote in Syria or Palestine for a non-Jewish Christian community.

The region is noted for the way that Jewish and non-Jewish communities live side-by-side.

The articles of the Mandate mentioned the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish communities in Palestine, but not their political status.

Similarly, an early draft did not include the commitment that nothing should be done which might prejudice the rights of the non-Jewish communities.

It's a great bow to the compassionate Christians, the non-Jewish community.

One has to note that such names were often given by the surrounding non-Jewish communities, who confused the appropriate religious terms of the Halakhah.

Over the centuries, "Jews were led to believe by the non-Jewish community that their religion was inferior," he said.

"Jews, especially in big cities, have such ephemeral contact with the non-Jewish community that this" - the church - "seems mysterious," he said.

The report criticized the Israeli occupation for neglect and economic isolation of the non-Jewish communities in the area.