114 posts tagged judea

"The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure-- in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape, this time aiming at an end to the Israeli occupation".

Following The Great War, the war to end all wars, the British and French found themselves in the unenviable position as world's gendarmerie again. The Ottoman Empire had fallen leaving the entire Middle East in limbo without direction or director.

The first photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Nicephore Niepce on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea. But for centuries images had been projected onto surfaces - artists used the camera obscura and camera lucida to trace scenes as early as the 16th century.

A Better New Testament Verse The CAMERA blog points out that, anachronistically, the NYTimes has Jesus in "Palestine": In an April 22nd New York Times article, "In Syrian Villages, the Language of Jesus Lives", reporter Robert Worth asserted that Jesus spoke Aramaic "in Palestine two millennia

Philadelphia's prestigious Franklin Institute has named JewishJournal.com contributor Judea Pearl as the 2008 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computers and Cognitive Science. Dr. Pearl, father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl and president of the foundation created in his memory, is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA.

Wednesday, April 30 | Work Out Music (Miami Herald) FITNESS WORK OUT MUSIC WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, Parkinson patients can work out with Musical Therapy noon at Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Blvd., Coral Gables. The class is followed by Yoga instruction at 1:15 p.m. Free. 305-274-5842.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Mashaal explained that “it is normal for any resistance...to sometimes escalate, other times retreat a bit.” Hamas has implemented ceasefires in the past and has later resumed attacks, he pointed out, citing 2003 as a specific example.

Communities of Har Hevron David reigned for seven and a half years in Hevron before establishing His kingdom in Jerusalem. I am sure that it is no coincidence that the establishment of the communities of Judea & Samaria during Israel’s modern return to the Land began in Hevron.

5 d'Hol HaMo'ed Pesah 5768 It was told to us that a few years ago, the Rabbinuth HaShomron (Samaria Rabbinic Council) was asked to inspect a factory which produced salads, the primary ingredients of which are qitniyoth. The owner of the factory desired a kashruth certification for Pesah.

By Ted Belman Jews in Israel and the Diaspora follow the peace process closely and a majority of them favour the two-state solution. As Yoram Ettinger explains below, this is due in part to their fear of the alleged Demographic Time Bomb. Yoram Ettinger explains. 1.