Parable of the pig and the cow.
Byline: Fr. Bel R San Luis, S V D JERUSALEM, Israel -- "Why is it," said the rich man to his priest friend, "that people call me stingy when everyone knows that when I die I'm leaving everything to the church?" "Let me tell you...

Reworking the Bible; apocryphal and related texts at Qumran; proceedings.
9004147039 Reworking the Bible; apocryphal and related texts at Qumran; proceedings. Joint Symposium...for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls...& Research Group on Qumran (2002: Jerusalem, Israel) Ed. by E.G. Chazon et al. Brill Academic Publishers 2005 245 pages...

Best Jewish Blog Award Goes to Ultra-Conservative Extremist.
Samson Blinded, a blog advocating an ultra-hard-line Israeli approach to Arab nations, received the 2006 People's Choice Jewish and Israeli Blog Award in the Best Overall Blog category and scored the highest in four other categories. JERUSALEM, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on...

Around The Nation.
LTO waives fees on CoCs The Land Transportation Commission (LTO), in coordination with the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association (PIRA), is temporarily waiving the interconnectivity fees related to the issuance of certificates of cover (CoCs) on the purchase of Comprehensive Third Party Liability (CTPL) policy for a...

Impressionist and post-impressionist painting and sculpture; in the Israel Museum Jerusalem.
0810957388 Impressionist and post-impressionist painting and sculpture; in the Israel Museum Jerusalem. Rachum, Stephanie. Harry N. Abrams 2005 183 pages $40.00 Hardcover N6847 The 19th-century French painting and sculpture collection of...

Under siege: letter from Jerusalem.
I AM AMONG those Israelis who are ready, in principle, for almost any concession that would end our conflict with the Palestinians. In the late 1990s I undertook, as a religious Jew, a journey of prayer and meditation into Islam and Christianity in the Holy Land in an attempt...

ARABS-ISRAEL - Feb 21 - Israel Frees 500 Prisoners In Gesture To Abbas.
Israel frees 500 Palestinians in the largest mass release for nearly a decade, a gesture meaning bolstering a ceasefire deal with new Palestinian Pres Mahmoud Abbas. But even as Abbas' hand was strengthened by jubilant scenes of homecoming for former detainees, he faced a brewing political crisis when Palestinian...

One answer to Middle East peace.
Byline: Beth Day Romulo ONE of President Bush's fervent wishes is that there could be a Middle East peace agreement before his term ends, and the hoped-for "two-state solution.'' Apparently Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's frequent forays to the Middle East have not broken the stalemate. So...

Dealing with Hamas: Palestinians make their choice.
HAMAS WAS FORMED in 1987 as an Islamist movement in opposition to Israel. It was linked to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. In spite of its resistance rhetoric, the organization received early covert backing and financial support from Israel. In promoting Hamas as an alternative to Yasir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization,...

Aumann, Schelling declared winners.
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has gone to Robert J Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling this year "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." Half of the prize has gone to Robert J Aumann...