Idolatry and Non-Jewish Practices
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Islam
Are Muslims idolators? Muslims believe in G-d, and don’t worship anything else, so they aren’t idolators; but they believe that Mohammed was the last and greatest prophet.
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Cross-Dressing
Why is cross-dressing forbidden? Maimonides, in his law code Mishneh Torah, lists the cross-dressing prohibition of Deut. 22:5 (which forbids women wearing clothes that are ordinarily worn only by men and vice versa) under the category of laws relating to…
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Belittling Non-Jews
Is it proper to belittle non-Jews? It’s wrong to belittle non-Jews who observe the Noahide laws. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 102b; Tosefta 13:2) says that the righteous of the nations have a share in the World to Come, and this is…
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Treating Non-Jews as Idolators
Must we treat non-Jews the way the Talmud tells us to treat idolators? According to Tosafos (Avodah Zarah 2a, s.v. Asur), the non-Jews whom we live among (i.e., the Christians) are not idol worshippers. The Muslims are definitely not idolators.