Returning and Redemption Click here to view the original article. JERUSALEM. Dec. 7-Intermittent knife and gun clashes cost the lives of seven more Jews in Palestine tonight, but an ominous Sunday quiet hung over the rest of the Middle East while the Arab world awaited the decision of its chiefs whether to wage an all-out […]
“…we prefer to be annihilated in our entirety to becoming a minority in our country.” – Mufti of Jerusalem. Click here for more on The Mufti of Jerusalem and Yasser Arafat. Says Partition of Palestine Will Be Resisted, U. S. Oil Interests May Suffer BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 10 (UP).—The Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Mufti of […]
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R. Utah) sharply criticized aspects of the Reagan Administration’s policy in the Middle East, especially its suspension of the memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation following Israel’s extension of civil law to the Golan Heights. The Senator, addressing more than 400 delegates at the annual plenum of the National Jewish Community Relations […]
Inscribed Hebrew Seals These seals, inscribed in the ancient Hebrew script, date to the last two centuries of the Judean Monarchy. Most are made of semi-precious stones or of hard limestone, and a few are carved of bone glass, bronze or silver. The seal-impression was used as a mark of ownership and to authenticate a […]
Griffon on stone seal. A griffon is a mythological figure with a body of a lion and the head and often wings of an eagle. In the ancient world, it was a symbol of divine guardianship and power. Mazar, Eilat, The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations, Shoham Academic Research and Publication, Jerusalem, 2002.
Juglet from Tell Beit Mirsim Jar, Beth Mirsim, IDA I 4962. Juglet has been placed in the cup of the spout. Tell Beit Mirsim was excavated in the 1920’s and 30’s by William Foxwell Albright. Amiran, Ruth, Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land. Jerusalem- Massada Press, 1969, p. 243.
Sennacherib was king of Assyria, the son of Sargon II. In 701 BCE, a rebellion backed by Egypt and Babylonia broke out in Judah, led by King Hezekiah. In response Sennacherib sacked a number of cities in Judah. He laid siege to Jerusalem, but soon returned to Nineveh, with Jerusalem not having been sacked. This […]
The Government of the German Reich and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics desirous of strengthening the cause of peace between Germany and the U.S.S.R and proceeding from the fundamental provisions of the Neutrality Agreement concluded in April 1926 between Germany and the U.S.S.R., have reached the following agreement- ARTICLE I Both […]
The Crimea Conference of the heads of the Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which took place from Feb. 4 to 11, came to the following conclusions- I. WORLD ORGANIZATION It was decided- 1. That a United Nations conference on the proposed world organization […]
The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. […]