General
The
Six Days of Creation
The series entitled The Six Days Of Creation planned to
explore the argument that the text of the first two verses
of Genesis may be read in a way that is consistent with
modern science. more
More
Akbar than Akbar?
There was once a great Mogul king in India by the name of
Akbar. He had no children and desperately wanted a son,
so he went to a holy place called the Darga where he swore
that if a son was born to him he would distribute rice for
the poor. A son was born and two large pots of rice were
provided, and this became a tradition, which continues to
our day.
Some views of
the rice and lentil programme in Jerusalem carried out by
the Exilarch's foundation more
Desert
Truffles- A Gourmet’s Buried Secrets
"A natural phenomenon of great complexity, one of the
strangest plants, without root, stem, fibre, branch, bud,
leaf or flower." The words of Theopharstus, a pupil
of Aristotle’s in 300 BCE, puzzled by the mystery
of the truffle (including a recipe for Crème of desert
truffles soup) more
Jerusalem
Facts & Figures
T he most recent population statistics relating to Jerusalem,
prepared by the Jerusalem institute of Israel studies. interesting
reading. more
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Poems by Michael Baroukh and Lee Baroukh.
more
Mashhadi
Jews in New-York The
4,000 Mashhadi who originated from the city of Mashhad in
Iran live now in a New- York suburb like one big family.
The older generation still speaks their mother tongue "Farsi".
more
The
Dove of Peace- A
drawing by Stephanie Michael Dangoor. more
Popular
Iraqi songs
sung by leading singers more
A
Future for Islam
Islam does not
mean slavish and blind surrender. In its form Islam really
means, “to be in tune” to the will of Allah,
and in this way to derive the wonderful benefits that our
God wishes to bestow on his creation. more
Hazon Yeshaya Organization
The rice and Lentils project sponsored by Mr. Naim Dangoor
has been helping the needy citizens of Jerusalem for the
last six months. It has been executed with the help of "Hazon
Yeshaya", a non-profit organisation more
Jews in Arab Countries-
Numbers according to the Israeli Ministry
of immigration & settlements more
Hitching a ride on
the magic carpet- an article by Professor
Yehouda Shenhav concerning the question of classifying Jewish
immigrants as refugees and a reply by Mr. Dangoor more
Divide Iraq into three
states- President George W. Bush's new strategy
of transferring power quickly to Iraqis, and his critics'
alternatives, share a fundamental flaw: All commit the United
States to a unified Iraq, artificially and fatefully made
whole from three distinct ethnic and sectarian communities.
That has been possible in the past only by the application
of overwhelming and brutal force. more
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