Jul 14, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1834 that Queen Maria Christina of Spain, once and for all, abolished the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition is a dark stain on European history. Thousands of Jews and others, as well, were forced to convert to Catholicism or be burned at the...
Jul 14, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, “Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?” (Deuteronomy 31:17) No one likes trouble to come into their life but, in this particular case, the trouble was, by...
Jul 13, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1938 that President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for an international conference at Evian, France, for the purpose of considering what to do with “displaced persons,” meaning Jews. The negligible results at this particular conference accentuated...
Jul 13, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with...
Jul 12, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that Israeli commandoes launched a spectacular and daring raid to free about 100 Jewish hostages being held at Entebbe airport in Uganda. It just so happens that, on this same day, the United States was celebrating its bicentennial (July 4,...
Jul 12, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all...
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