BY BREITBART— Iran is to build a new nuclear power plant, alongside its sole existing one in the southern city of Bushehr, by early 2014, state television reported on Sunday, quoting the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation. “Iran will build a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in Bushehr next year,” the television quoted Fereydoon…
BY SALENA ZiTO, TOWNHALL— Lyle Smith sat in a wheelchair on the grounds of the national cemetery, not far from the Tomb of the Unknowns. “I never imagined there would be so many headstones,” he said, looking out over the green rolling hills covered with snow-white markers. Smith was born seven years after the “War…
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— The current round of negotiations between the world powers and Iran is “not working,” a senior Israeli official said Monday, adding that after two meetings there is “not an iota of evidence indicating the Iranians are in any way serious about curbing their nuclear program.” Israel was briefed by a senior…
“Who would true valour see, let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather” John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
BY DAN CALIC, YNET– One of the challenges preventing improved relations between Christians and Jews is that both have misconceptions about the other. For example, one of the biggest misconceptions is that most Jews and Christians think Jesus abandoned Judaism, the religion of his birth, in order to start Christianity. They are both incorrect. Jews…
BY TRAVELUJAH— It is commonly believed today that the Jewish festival of Shavuot and the Christian holy day of Pentecost have little, if anything, to do with one another. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the two are actually the same holiday, albeit with varying traditions and an extended interpretation on the Christian…
BY EARL COX, JPOST— The shadow of war is upon us. It is no longer somewhere far away in a distant land. Believing America will soon attack, Iran has taken preemptive measures against US and Israeli assets. Turkey has said that NATO should not share information with Israel. Iran and Russia are arming Syria. The…
BY ALEXANDER JOFFE AND ASAF ROMIROWSKY, UPI— Palestinian identity is founded on three parts. One is that resistance to Israel is permanent and holy. Another is that Palestinians are, individually and communally, refugees, made so at the hands of Israel. The third part is that the world, specifically the United Nations and Western countries, must…
BY NIR HASSON, HAARETZ— A piece of clay was found during archaeological excavations at the City of David, in Jerusalem, bearing the name of the city of Bethlehem in ancient Hebrew script. The piece of clay dates back to the First Temple period (1006 – 586 BCE), making it the first tangible evidence of existence…
