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Chernobyl Children to Arrive in Israel

JERUSALEM -- Early Thursday, a plane carrying 25 children from the Chernobyl area will touch down in Israel, where the children will begin their new lives. The airlift comes the same week as the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear disaster in modern history. The children, between the age of 6 and...

Israel's Foreign Minister Told He Will Be Indicted for Fraud

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli attorney general today told Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that, pending a hearing, he will be indicted for fraud, money laundering and witness-tampering, a move that could eventually bring the collapse of the government. Lieberman faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted. The draft...

Did Journalist Find 'THE Nails' Used to Crucify Jesus?

JERUSALEM -- Controversial journalist Simcha Jacobovici says he may have found the nails that were used to crucify Jesus more than 2,000 years ago. He chronicled his Indiana Jones-type search in a new documentary called "The Nails of the Cross," which was screened today at a news conference in Jerusalem and will be...

Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian. The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement,...

Israel Panel Approving New East Jerusalem Building

JERUSALEM -- Jerusalem officials on Monday gave preliminary approval for the building of 942 new apartments in a Jewish development in the city's contested eastern sector, threatening to create new friction ahead of the Israeli president's White House visit. Although it would take years before construction starts, the...

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Ancient Bethlehem Seal Unearthed In Jerusalem

The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem â a 2,700 years old seal with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.

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43rd Day of the Omer: Jerusalem -- The Heart of the World

The portion of Bamidbar is usually read the week before Shavuot.

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Jerusalem Divided: Ehud Olmert, Former Israel PM, Says City Must Be Partitioned

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.

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Robert Orlando: A Polite Bribe: Paul's Final Journey To Jerusalem

Headed for Judea, in 58 A.D., Paul begs the church in Rome to pray that the "unbelievers" (non Christian Jews) do not assassinate him and that the Jewish Christians accept his collection of gold.

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Assassin's Creed pre-production footage doesn't skimp on the stabs

When our game begins, Richard the Lionheart has just recaptured the port city of Acre from occupying Saracens.

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05/30/12 PA, Abbas to Celebrate Terrorists As Israel Returns... Source: jewishpress.com The bodies of terrorists killed during terror attacks which murdered hundreds of Israelis will be transferred to the Palestinian Authority this week as a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, according to Ynet on Tuesday.
05/30/12 GPL: The Mother of Jerusalem is Crying - Rosemary... Source: Armenian News Network / Groong PRESS RELEASE Glendale Public Library 222 East Harvard Street Glendale CA 91205 Tel: 818-548-2030 Web: http://www.glendalepubliclibrary.org/ http://www.glendale.ci.ca.us/ FB: www.facebook.com/GlendalePL The Mother of Jerusalem is Crying By Dr. Rosemary Hartounian Cohen GLENDALE, CA Glendale Public Library invites the public to a lecture and book signing with Dr. Rosemary Hartounian Cohen, on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 7pm at the Glendale Central Library Auditorium, 222 East Harvard Street.
05/29/12 In Brussels, friends of Israel to mark J'lem Day Source: Jerusalem Post - Israel A Jewish group on Wednesday will hold an event at the European parliament commemorating Israel's establishment of control over the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967, a week after the national holiday was held in Israel.
05/29/12 Developer wants to build senior housing Source: The Observer Review & Express - Watkins Glen NY YATES COUNTYâDevelopers are proposing some additional senior housing for people age 55 and older in Jerusalem.
05/29/12 16th-century Korean mummy provides clue to hepatitis B... Source: PhysOrg.com Additional analysis of the ancient HBV genomes may be used as a model to study the evolution of chronic hepatitis B and help understand the spread of the virus, possibly from Africa to East-Asia. It also may shed further light on the migratory pathway of hepatitis B in the Far East from China and Japan to Korea as well as to other regions in Asia and Australia where it is a major cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer.