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 === Not using ""Palestine"" or ""Palestinian"" for Talmud and rabbis === 

 Makes sense, I'll try to remember.  However, there was a period when everyone referred to the land of Israel as Palestine.  Therefore, to say something like ""in 1940 Shlomo Pines emigrated to Israel"" would appear to be an anachronism.  Don't we have to use the term ""Palestine"" during a certain period for historical accuracy?  What is this period?  From Roman conquest until 1948?  Thanks.    
 *Hi Dfass: Note: The term ""Land of Israel"" is an old one of Biblical origin, whereas the name ""Palestine"" is considered offensive by many Jews because it was coined by the Romans after they crushed the Jews of Judea and needless to say today it refers exclusively to the Arab Palestinians and never to Jews. Note also that the ""Land of Israel"" article is not the same as the ""Israel"" article because the latter refers to the modern post-1948 Jewish state. My main concern was about rabbis from the Mishnaic and Talmudic eras, up until about a hundred years ago being called ""Palestinians"" on Wikipedia as a follow-through from the many articles that have been copied and pasted from the old Jewish Encyclopedia and which collectively create the wrong impression. Such are the hazards of relying on dated information, long-discarded terminology, and unsuitable writing and communication styles. Wikipedia as a modern encyclopedia should not be relying on archaic terms such as ""Palestinian rabbis"" that could potentially cause grave misunderstanding. I think that from the time of the British Mandate of Palestine, also shortened to ""the British Mandate"" and sometimes ""Palestine,"" that Jews were associated with those terms from 1923 until 1948 when the modern State of Israel was declared. I hope that you have noted that I am most definitely NOT saying that whenever the Jewish Encyclopedia uses the term ""Palestine"" that the single word ""Israel"" should be used  obviously I do not mean that because when Israel is used alone on Wikipedia it refers to the MODERN State of Israel only. On the other hand, what I am saying is that when the word ""Palestine"" is used in archaic sources that predate modern Israel, and when writing about Judaic topics that relate to the Middle Ages, Talmudic, or Biblical times, then the better, more accurate, less controversial term for Wikipedia to use is ""Land of Israel"" which is historically what the Jewish people, and everyone else in academic life, have and do still call it. Hope I have clarified myself, and thanks for caring.   
 ** OK, I think I get the drift.  I will pay attention to it in the future.  (Don't be so down on the Jewish Encyclopedia though!  It's an incredible work, written by some tremendous scholars.  I think these articles significantly raise the quality of Wikipedia, whether their English is somewhat archaic or not.  If you compare a JE-borrowed Wikipedia article to one written by ""the masses,"" you can't but be struck by the difference in quality and scholarship.  The typical Jewish Wikipedian (myself included) is not capable of producing articles of anything like that caliber.  Most Wikipedians cannot even be bothered to cite the sources for the couple of factoids they manage to dredge up from their memory of 10th grade.)  Thanks again for the clarification.   
 ***Hi Dfass: I am not down on the old Jewish Encyclopedia at all, and I fully agree with you that it is a more than masterly work of scholarship. But is was written in the context of the culture of over a hundred years ago as a product of the nineteenth century! My specific concern at this stage was only about how the meaning and application of the word/s ""Palestine"" and ""Palestinian"" are getting ""lost in the cut-and-paste process"" because one hundred years ago, ""Palestinian"" was used as an academic adjective as for example, together with ""rabbis"" (""Palestinian rabbi/s"") or the Talmud (""Palestinian Talmud""). Up until 1948 the words ""Palestine"" and ""Palestinians"" still had application/s to Jews because of the existaence of the British Mandate of Palestine until 1948 in the territories of historically Jewish Land of Israel. Since then, the name ""Palestine"" and ""Palestinians"" has shed any connection to Jews and the modern Jewish State of Israel which was set up in contradistinction to an Arab Palestine. Particularly since the rise of the PLO (the Palestine Liberation Organization), following the 1967 Six-Day War, the term and notion of ""Palestine"" and ""Palestinians"" has become thoroughly and exclusively connected with the Arab Palestinians to the point that no-one (not in politics, academics, the media, religion, etc