“Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild, he’ll never need to deal another” (Leonard Cohen, Stranger Song, © 1967 Sony/ATV Music Publishing). In 1987 Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” was number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list for 13 weeks. Some quotes: “I like thinking […]
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The Islamic Republic of Iran (Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān) is top headline news. Modern Iran is known in the Bible as ancient Persia. The peoples of ancient Iran included the tribes of Persia, Elam and Media (see Acts 2:9). Today a jihadi Shi’ite Islamic dictatorship rules Iran’s 82 million people. Iran is the second largest country […]
It’s fifty years on since a half a million young Americans flowed down the Interstates to converge at Bethel in western New York State. Smack dab in the middle of Max Yasgur’s cow pasture, the Woodstock Aquarian Festival of Music and Art morphed into a muddy stage which would showcase the counterculture generation. Hundreds […]
Slot-machines from a previous generation had a large metal handle on their right side. When this lever was pulled down, the one-armed bandit either swallowed your silver dollars or coughed up a trifling jackpot. For the rare winner, victory bells would ring on the machine and three cherries would line up on the glass-covered panel. […]
The Sabbath murder of eleven Jewish men and women in Pittsburgh caught many by surprise. Robert Bowers, a 46 year old neo-Nazi racist who posted anti-Jewish and anti-Trump conspiracy theories on the web, walked in to the Tree of Life-Or L’simcha synagogue in the Squirrel Hill district and unloaded clips from a semi-automatic rifle and […]
On Monday, May 14, Israel was the center of some powerful earth tremors. The 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, a major and essential step in the fulfillment of the ‘dry bones vision’ of Ezekiel 37:1-14 The recognition by the world’s primary super-power, the United States, of the connection between […]