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45+ min ago  (332+ words) The Binyamin Regional Council is advancing plans to establish a new community, Natof, in western Binyamin, following the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet's decision to approve and regulate new communities in Judea and Samaria. According to the plan, the community will be built…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (350+ words) Archaeologists have deciphered a 1, 700-year-old inscription that captures a dramatic moment in the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire. Found inside an underground temple dedicated to the pagan god Mithras, the discovery offers rare written evidence of the Gospel…...

39+ min ago  (309+ words) Finally there's a modern weekly planner that's built on the Jewish calendar. I created this planner so we'd never have to keep two calendars again. (M. Welch/Copper Mirror Press) I've organized my life in a paper planner for decades. Every…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (541+ words) Healthy aging has become one of the major demographic concerns of the 21st century. With this in mind, Israeli experts participated in the launch of a new international initiative presented in the Lithuanian Parliament, aimed at promoting public policies, scientific research,…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (465+ words) This NAIDOC Week, discover how Pastor James' powerful story shows that forgiveness is the first step towards healing and reconcilliation....

2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (91+ words) Birthday greetings this week go on July 15 to the silver-voiced, gentle, and brilliantly minded Tobias Vanderhoop. PS: If you're wondering who won the trophy for best entry in the Fourth of July parade, it went to Isaac Taylor with his…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago  (197+ words) When we see harrowing footage of people pulled from rubble that was once a home, it's easy to understand, "That could have been someone I loved" that could have been me." Israel's involvement in such relief is extraordinary, as they…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago  (983+ words) Given this honorable heritage it's perhaps surprising to discover that following a series of firebombings, shootings, beatings and death threats in the early 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. called St. Augustine "the most lawless community in which we have ever worked....

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (100+ words) Israel Emanuel The Herald Journal - Manage Subscription (Pay Your Bill, Vacation Request, Update Account Info) FILE - Israeli right wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir is detained by police after shouting slogans at White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, during his visit…...

2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (286+ words) [Jesus said,] "Salvation is from the Jews." John 4: 22 (NRSV) My friend's father survived Auschwitz. His father once said of Jesus: "That man has caused more trouble for the Jews than anyone else. Including Hitler. According to my faith, Jesus was…...