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10 Important Biblical Archaeological Finds

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The Sisters of Auschwitz

The first trapdoor was hidden in the floor. In 2012, Dutch corporate attorney Roxane van Iperen bought a secluded nine-room house on a quiet forest path and began to renovate it. The house started giving up its secrets almost at once. There were more trapdoors, secret rooms, and double walls. Then came stranger finds: old […]

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Can a Monk Be a Jew?

A Jew from Poland named Oswald Rufeisen converted to Christianity and became a Carmelite monk, taking the name Brother Daniel. Despite his conversion, he continued to identify as a Jew and in 1958 applied for citizenship in the State of Israel on the basis of his Jewish birth. One of Israel’s central doctrines is the […]

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The New Noah’s Ark Claim: Should We Believe It?
New radar scans claim Noah’s Ark is buried in the mountains of Turkey. A closer look at the evidence, and at the lesson Noah left behind.

There’s been a lot of excitement lately over claims that Noah’s Ark has finally been found. Is this proof that the biblical story is true? Or should we be a little cautious? A team of researchers says it has proven that a mound in the mountains of eastern Turkey, near Mount Ararat, is Noah’s Ark. […]

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How Omer Shem Tov Found God in a Hamas Tunnel
Held by Hamas for 505 days, Omer Shem Tov, a non-religious kid from Herzliya, discovered a freedom no captor could take.

Omer Shem Tov, 23, spent over 16 months in the tunnels of Gaza. For over a year, he’s been sharing his story around the world — how he survived and the choices that sustained him through it all, including 450 days of total isolation, 50 of them in a pitch-dark dungeon where he couldn’t even […]

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Fact-Checking the Bible: Where Was Abraham Really From?

Critics said “Ur of the Chaldeans” proved the Torah was written a thousand years late. Then a 3,000-year-old tablet turned up in the wrong place.

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