" Paul McCartney gave his first concert in Israel on Thursday before tens of thousands of cheering fans, 43 years after the Beatles were barred from singing there because of fears they could corrupt youngsters. ...
" The yeshiva student who took Barack Obama's personal note to God from the Western Wall in Jerusalem has gone public - sort of - to apologize. With his face obscured and his identity given as "Aleph," the first Hebrew letter of his name, the young man told Channel 2 TV...
JERUSALEM: A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially...
Facts and Opinion. “Yedioth Ahronot”. published yesterday (6.24.08) on his Hebrew printed edition: “Berlin considering to name it’s new international airport ‘Albert Einstein’ “.To be more...
Was There an Ancient Israel? A Critique of Gary Rendsburg By Rook Hawkins Introduction This article will review the opening section of the new publication, The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship (2008 ), specifically the viewpoints and perspectives of the...
USA to Cancel Haiti's Debt, Call it an Act of Jubilee While the Rev. Wright controversy remains in the Main Stream Media exclaiming how America's "Chickens have come home to Roost". Haiti's Debt...
What better way to begin Pesach (Passover) than with some Australian Jewish punk rock? Just when you thought the genre was exhausted..."Yidcore, formed as a joke during the boys' college days, and includes Bram...
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The 80th Annual Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008 (today 3.00 AM Israel time 2/25/2008). Among the five films nominated to the Best Foreign Film is the Israeli...
Right after one of the weekly library information columns I write for local newspapers, I got this e-mail: “ You equated 4.5 cubits to 3 feet. That works out to 8" per cubit. But a cubit is 18", that is when it...
Izzy Pludwinski is a professional calligrapher in both Hebrew and English calligraphy.
Abstract Hebrew Calligraphy - an exciting new field Izzy has been experimenting with, some commercial work, and a newly...
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The name Canaanites denotes the inhabitants of the land of Canaan who inhabited the land prior to the Israelite settlement, and remained among the Israelites throughout the First Temple Period. The Bible stresses...
So far, Erykah Badu hasn't integrated her political views into her music on the scale of, say, M.I.A. declaring "like PLO / I don't surrender", but Badu has openly declared her support for Palestinian artists who are...
The oldest part of Israelite Jerusalem, known as the city of David, is located on a narrow ridge just south of the walls of the current old city of Jerusalem. After conquering Jerusalem from the Jebusites, David...
In approximately 930 B.C.E., the short-lived United Monarchy, which
ruled over all the tribes of Israel, was divided into two kingdoms:
Israel in the north, led by Jeroboam son of Nebat, and Judea in the
South,...
In 1947, by the north-western tip of the Dead Sea,
a few Bedouins accidentally stumbled upon what would turn out to be one
of the most important archaeological discoveries of the century: the
Dead Sea Scrolls....