My good friend, Rabbi David Ostriker’s brother – one of the world’s experts on dark matter – just wrote a history of the dark stuff. I’m fascinated by the fact… Continue reading "Stellar performances finally gain the limelight"
Here’s an interesting find, estimated to be 2,400 years old. They are glass beads. Did you know that the biggest slab of glass ever found from the ancient world is… Continue reading "Cleopatra’s Necklace"
My good friend, Prof Robert Eisenman, reminded me that he has been promoting Orde Wingate for years. Here’s a brilliant article – “Who Killed Orde Wingate?” Excerpt of his article… Continue reading "Who Killed Orde Wingate?"
Here’s an article about a military genius and great friend of Israel. You may not have heard of him. His name was “Orde Wingate”, a distant cousin of Lawrence of… Continue reading "What Wingate Wrought"
If you missed this…there are still treasures to be found in the Holy Land: Excerpts from an article by Nir Hasson on haaretz.com A gold cache, one of the largest… Continue reading "Crusader gold cache found near Israeli coastal city"
By James Tabor on jamestabor.com The paperback edition of The Jesus Discovery is to be released February 19th. I received my advance copy yesterday and I love the smart new… Continue reading "Paperback Edition of The Jesus Discovery Coming Soon"
Why isn’t the Israeli government celebrating this aliyah? Why do we have to sing and dance when they let a few hundred people through? Why aren’t we waiting for the… Continue reading "Israel welcomes 2,000th India Bnei Menashe oleh"
Here’s what my good friend Prof Richard Freund is up to…he is bringing to light the story of the Jews of China Excerpts of an article by Cindy Mindell in… Continue reading "Discovering the Jews of China"
The Israel Museum announced that starting February 12, 2013 the museum is going to put on display a giant “King Herod” exhibition. This will involve 30 tons of artifacts. Herod… Continue reading "How fortunate for Herod that his name wasn’t Jesus"