Hamas Officials Talk to Israeli Media

Taking their message to a state they don't recognize, the Hamas prime minister gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper and his top aide spoke in Hebrew on the radio Tuesday.

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The Christmas story is told only in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke in the Bible. None of the other New Testament writers seem to have heard of Jesus' miraculous conception or the spectacular events that occurred at his birth.

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A niggling curiosity about colors started the whole thing. "For many years, I found myself idly wondering if the name value of colors mentioned in the Bible had any relationship to their wave frequency," says Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Professor Haim Shore.

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Yes, YHWH originally had a consort. Exactly how it happened is hard to say (there was alcohol, that trip to Vegas…). The best guess is that we're seeing a divide between the folk religion and the more rarefied religion of the priests.

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Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew.

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None of Professor Dawkins' books, on evolution as well as religion, has ever been translated into Arabic, and his work has been heavily censored in Turkey.

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"The Chronicles of Ehav Ever: Episode 22 In this episode I go through a very brief overview of the Yisraeli (Israeli) National Language, Ivrit (Hebrew). I also talk about a number of dialects that came later in Yisraeli/Jewish history. "

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America is not a Christian nation. We are, it is true, a nation founded by Christians, and according to a 2008 survey, 76 percent of us continue to identify as Christian (still, that's the lowest percentage in American history).

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You must go immediately to the website of the US Consulate in Jerusalem. Let me know whether you can find ANYTHING about Israel. As of 11:00 p.m. EST, every single entry/article/announcement is about the "Palestinians" or the "West Bank." NOTHING about Israel. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

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Israel plans to replace road signs and place names which have Hebrew, Arabic and English versions with just the Hebrew version.

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Gavriela Lev, long time performer, writer and creator of Theater Company Jerusalem. Founded in 1986, associated with over 100 artists and 28 original works is performed in both English and Hebrew through out Israel and the World.

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When Does Life Begin? A Quick Etymological Analysis

The question of when life begins is certainly a fraught question. Politicians have offered their opinions on the issue for decades.

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This past month I had the pleasure of visiting the house of one of Israel's greatest modern Hebrew poet's C. N. Bialik in Tel Aviv. It is located on Bialik Street off the well known Allenby St. close to the fashionable Sheinkin Street and the famous Carmel market.

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We should always keep in mind the following comment from Albert Einstein: "The more I study science the more I believe in God." - (Einstein, as cited in Holt 1997).

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Lighting a candle for Jewry

If it ain't in Shamash, it probably ain't Jewish. Named for the "servant" candle, which lights all the other candles on a menorah, this Semitic supersite is almost as old as the Web -- first copyrighted in 1990.

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Students view parchment smuggled into a concentration camp by inmates in World War II.

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One more belief system of our time is the notion that the construction plan for animals and plants are contained in the genetic code. This code is complex and the number of possible variations enormous. Could it be that a code like that has developed at random?

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The Israel Defense Forces, recognizing that success in neutralizing the Hamas movement in Gaza is as much a public relations challenge as a military one, has enlisted an arsenal of Internet tools to take their message directly to a global audience.

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On Dec 25, the round-faced Mr Sawaguchi will get up in the icy predawn of northern Japan, put on his uniform of suit and tie and head off for another day as a civil servant in the construction division of Aomori Prefectural Government.

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Elana Rozenman discusses her non-profit "trust" (Emun) organization. It is devoted to mutual trust and understanding among Jews and reaching out to Moslems, Christians and especially to women. She also discusses her son's recuperation from a terror attack.

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Why the Hebrew Bible and not the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

What bugs me the most is the moral claim of Christians and other Hebrew Bible based religions as if the Ten Commandments were god given to them. The Ten Commandments (Exodus:20:1-26) are taken from the Declarations to Rekhti-merti-f-ent-Ma'at and the 42 Negative Affirmations as  …

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Archaeologists in Israel say they have unearthed the oldest Hebrew text ever found while excavating a fortress city overlooking a valley where the Bible says David slew Goliath.

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Is Jehovah a universal God?

Joshua:6:21: "And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword."

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The Septuagint (LXX), the most serious blunder ever committed by Westerners?

In Ptolemaic Egypt a translation of the Torah into Greek was done. Called the Septuagint after the number of translators it required ("septuaginta" is Greek for "seventy").

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Ten Commandments, Ten Commandments I am sick of them.

I am sick of hearing about the Ten Commandments as if the Hebrew Bible invented them. The Hebrew Bible, a plagiarizing piece of work which for so long had most of the myths of antiquity all to itself.

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