It took 2,000 years, but the Dead Sea Scrolls have finally entered the digital age. As of this fall, the scrolls are available online thanks to a partnership between Google and Israel’s national museum. Five of the most important scrolls can be seen in high-resolution on the internet. Users can zoom in and out, translate…
BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This past Sunday I got a first-hand glimpse of one of the hottest phenomena in American pop culture and sports. The venue was Metlife Stadium in New Jersey, the occasion was the first round of the National Football League playoffs. Just prior to the start of the game between the New…
BY GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— Next March, the Bible College in Bethlehem will host dozens of US theologians, activists and ministries for the “Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 Conference”. It is to be a major religious and political event meant to demonize Israel and to support the Palestinian Intifada against the “ethnocentric” Jewish State. The…
BY GIL COHEN, HAARETZ— Iran and Hezbollah are strengthening their efforts to ensure the survival of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday. “They are providing with knowledge, weapons and other means and recently with active involvement,” Kochavi said. Kochavi also said that the face of…
BY DAVID LEV, ARUTZ 7— Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of Iranian scientists, a web site identified with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said Thursday – and those responsible had better start staying awake nights, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying. Naming Israel specifically, the Rajah News website said…
By ASAF ROMIROWSKY, THE JEWISH EXPONENT — With this year’s National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference set to take place at the University of Pennsylvania in early February, it’s important to understand what the BDS movement is all about and what its ultimate goals are. The movement’s focus is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it specifically…
By PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Whenever a person wants anything too much, immediately he or she becomes restless. People who allow pride and greed to rule their lives never get enough. Coveting and inordinate affections lead to agitation and bondage. However, even a poor person with humility…
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Some three months after being released from Hamas captivity, Gilad Schalit met separately with the ambassadors of Germany and France on Wednesday to thank them for their countries efforts in securing his release. Schalit, surrounded by cameras, went to both countries embassies in Tel Aviv with his father Noam. He presented…
BY RICK MORAN, AMERICAN THINKER— The official Iranian news agency Fars is calling it a “terrorist attack” and are accusing Israel and the US of carrying out the assassination of an Iranian nuke scientist. The scientist was identified as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a supervisor at the main enrichment facility at Nantanz. And the method was,…
BY GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Just two weeks after a Temple era seal was displayed to the public, archeologists continue to dig up breathtaking proofs of the ancient and never-severed connection between Jews and the Land of Israel. This time, the find is a 1,500 year old tiny stamp discovered near the city of Akko,…