Jesus’s Coffin Claim Sensationalism

{image_1}Not so long ago came Dan Brown and Tom Hanks with The Da Vinci Code. Now another film by award-winning director James Cameron seeks to discredit what millions of Christians around the world hold so dear. Cameron, along with Israeli filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, claims that a burial cave found in a Jerusalem neighborhood holds the remains of Jesus and several of His family members. Ten small coffins, known as ossuaries, were found in the cave with the names of several persons inscribed on them, including, according to the filmmakers, Jesus, His mother Mary, brother Joseph, Mary Magdalene, and Judah, who they claim to be Jesus’s son.

Tram to the City with No Name

{image_1}Imagine setting out for work to prepare the ground to make way for the new Jerusalem tram line. This kind of work is undertaken by many throughout the world every day, but when you are digging in Jerusalem, anything can happen, and it did! Workers have unearthed the remains of an ancient Jewish city from the first century AD; it is under Shuafat, a modern-day Arab suburb of Jerusalem. That is some tram ride!

Shi’ism on the Rise

{image_1}Since September 11, 2001, interest in Islam has increased dramatically. People want to better understand this threat that is determined to dominate the world. In our January–February 2007 issue, our commentary The War on Terror: A Religious Mission” briefly highlighted the rivalry between the two major factions within Islam: the Sunnis and the Shi'ites. Most people do not realize the importance of understanding these two groups. We thought this article posted on The Media Line gave an excellent explanation.

Dirty Water to Clean Water––Instantly

{image_1}The Sulis Personal Purification System takes all the ingredients needed to transform dirty water into clean water––be it for stranded hikers, soldiers in the field, or victims of disasters––and has miniaturized the technology to fit into the top of a cork that can be plugged into virtually any size bottle, container, or tap.

Hearing Aid in the Mouth

June 12, 2007

Audiodent, a small Israeli start-up based in Omer, near Beersheva, has developed an innovative new hearing aid that clips easily inside the mouth, using the teeth and jawbone to transmit sound to the brain.

The Fig – Sweet as Honey: Honey Baked Figs

{image_1}It is believed by some that the “honey from the rock” was from the fig because the fig tree can grow in rocky places. The natural sweetness of the fruit is attested to in the “parable of the trees,” where the fig tree is asked to be king over all the trees (Judges 9:7–15). The fig’s answer is, “Should I cease my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over trees?” Even the fig is seemingly jealous of its own sweetness.

Saudi Arabia: Our Plan or War

{image_1}Saudi Arabia claims to want to lead a new round of Middle East peace talks, but demands that Israel agree to withdraw from all land it won in the 1967 war (including all of the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and half of Jerusalem) or face outright war with the Islamic [world].

New Jewish Museum in Munich

{image_1}For Jewish people, Munich is a city that lives in the shadow of its past: first, as the birthplace of the Nazi party and the nearby Dachau camp, then later as the city where 11 Israeli athletes were murdered during the 1972 Olympic Games. It seemed, until in recent years, as if Munich was hesitant to acknowledge its checkered history with the Jewish people as no formal monument or museum had been erected to their memory some 50 years after the Holocaust.

Hamas: Jews, a “Cancerous Lump”

{image_1}“We have two important foundations: One is Koranic, and the other is prophetic. The Koranic: The divine promise made in the Al-Israa Sura [Chapter 17] is that we will liberate the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, ‘and we will enter it as we have entered it the first time’ [paraphrasing Sura 17 (The Night Journey), verse 7]. And the prophetic foundation is the message of the prophet Muhammad, that Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world.”

Temple “Trash”–A Treasure Trove

{image_1}On a sunny afternoon in April, a group of Bridges for Peace staff went on an archaeological adventure—into the past. On the undulating, pleasant lower slopes of Mount Scopus, an excavation appears to be underway, but this is no ordinary excavation. Archaeologists and volunteers busily screen, sift, and wash through tons of earth, searching out the smallest potsherds that litter Israel like shells on a seashore and normally get trodden underfoot. What is so special about this earth, and why are professional archaeolo-gists taking the unprecedented, mammoth step of sifting through it when they are all cognizant that its geological context has been completely erased?

Iran: Nuclear Club Member

{image_1}“There is no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless Americans’ or Zionists’ fingerprints are seen there. Our strength and the cornerstone of the victory is in our [Muslim] unity…We have to pay attention to the devils who want to cause divisions.”

“With an Outstretched Arm…”

{image_1}“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come…” (Song of Songs 2:11–12a). What are the signs that Israel’s long awaited spring has arrived? Are they the final passing of winter’s cold, wet weather, the budding of almond trees, the joyful songs of birds, or perhaps the red poppies and cyclamen carpeting the hillsides? According to the Hebrew Scriptures (Gen.–Mal., Tanach), the coming of spring is marked by the arrival of Pesach (Passover). “Observe the month of Abib [spring], and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night” (Deut. 16:1).

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