Viral video of students at Columbia University forming a human chain to keep Jewish students off campus evokes chilling images of storm troopers doing the same thing at the University of Vienna in 1938.
Pro-Hamas protests continue at Columbia University in New York, where Jewish professors and students have requested police protection and have been advised to stay away from campus for their own safety.
Congress passed the REPO Act Saturday, which empowers the Biden administration to seize some $6 billion in Russian assets and send it to Ukraine for reconstruction. But there will be consequences for the US and Europe.
THE PSALMS are often polemics directed at the gods of the pagan nations around Israel. Case in point is the subject of this month’s Iron and Myth roundtable, Psalm 29.Continue Reading
Congress has reauthorized FISA and granted the US government expanded surveillance powers to essentially ignore the 4th Amendment to the Constitution while spying on American citizens.
ONE OF THE MYSTERIES of ancient Mesopotamia are the strange, reptilian figurines found in southeastern Iraq near the ancient cities of Ur and Eridu. What can they possibly have to do with the Bible?Continue Reading
WE RETURN to our regularly scheduled reading this week with proverbs that are paternal calls for wisdom–and a warning against communing with spirits of the dead.Continue Reading
THOSE IMMORTAL WORDS were spoken by Michael Kabuni, a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, responding to a false claim by President Biden that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals after being shot down in WWII.Continue Reading
Hamas rejected a ceasefire proposal from Israel Saturday during the Iranian attack, but a source within the terror group says there may be no more than 20 “humanitarian” hostages still alive in Gaza.
Reuters reports that a Turkish diplomatic official said Iran warned the US before its attack on Israel Saturday night, and that the White House told Iran any action had to be “within certain limits.”