History
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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 […]
Current
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.
