Archive for 'Summer 2007'
Spiritual Insights
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
ANGELS INSIGHTS (Credit: Beliefnet.com) 1. REACH OUT TO YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL Develop your own personal communication and speak to your Guardian Angel by the name you have picked. You may do this by saying aloud or silently a prayer, phrase, or poem. You may speak to her/him on a train, in an office, at home, [...]
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Did you Know?
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Another insight into Islam for Catholics and Jews to appreciate and understand the Islamic religion 1. ISLAM QUR’AN – THE MUSLIM SACRED BOOK The Qur’an is considered by Muslims to be the literal, undistorted word of God, and it is the central religious text of Islam. It has also been called “the Koran” in English. [...]
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People
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Noted Archaeologists dismiss The Lost Tomb of Jesus film DAVID MEVORAH, Curator at the Israel Museum, said, “The chances of the film maker’s claims being true are more than remote… they are closer to fantasy.” JOE ZIAS, former Curator for Anthropology and Archeology at Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem, said, “Simcha (Jacobovici, the director) has no credibility [...]
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Jewish Grandchildren – Perhaps
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Antony Gordon and Richard Horowitz, Jewish businessmen and community activists, have raised the danger signals of Interfaith Marriages (Jews marrying non-Jews). In their studies, they noted that Reform Jews have a 46% intermarriage rate; Conservative Jews have a 32%; Centrist Orthodox have 6%, and Hasidic/Yeshiva Orthodox have 6%. According to these men, the Orthodox parents [...]
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The Oldest Christian Church – Israel
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The Israel Antiquities Authority have uncovered what may be the oldest Christian Church. Two well preserved tile floors with three Greek inscriptions were discovered during the exploratory excavations in Megiddo, Israel. Until now, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank, have been considered the two oldest [...]
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World Jewish Communities
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Jews are widely dispersed across the globe, but 80 percent of the world’s Jewish population lives in only two countries, the United States and Israel. South America has the third largest Jewish community. Canada has the fourth largest Jewish population at 370,000. Russia still has an estimated 250,000 Jews, the sixth largest Jewish population.
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Forgotten Refugees
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
According to FLAME (a non-profit education organization), 850,000 Jews were driven from Arab countries, most of them in 1948. Jews in Arab countries in 1948 and 2007 are as follows: 1948 2007 Algeria 140,000 0 Egypt 75,000 100 Iraq 135,000 100 Lebanon 5,000 100 Libya 38,000 0 Morocco 265,000 5,700 Syria 30,000 100 Tunisia 105,000 [...]
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Jews Return to the Old Country
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Cities like Warsaw and Krakow in Poland have recently seen a return of Jews. Of course, the Jewish communities in these cities and others in Europe were either completely or almost completely destroyed during the Shoah (Holocaust). Today, almost all the Jewish communities in these cities are miniscule, but they are there. Prior to WW [...]
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Rome – Jewish Population
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Rome’s Jewish community, which now numbers about 15,000, is largely Sephardic and dates to ancient times. It is located a short distance from the Campo di Fiori. The Jewish ghetto survived for 300 years. Interestingly, Jewish Rome was devastated by Word War II. However, Italian Jews overall fared better than their north European counterparts. The [...]
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Pope Benedict XVI – Tradition
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by admin.
At the present time, the Pope is expected to broaden permission to use the Tridentine Latin Mass (Pre-Vatican II). If approved, it will broaden the special conditions for this Mass under Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II allowed it with special permission of a local bishop and with a public statement that this [...]
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