Perhaps you have heard or even sung the well-known Christian hymn, “This is My Father’s World.” Written as a poem by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a Christian minister residing in New York, it was published in 1901. In 1915, the poem was set to music and became what is now a staple in most traditional Christian hymnals. The words sung, complemented by a soothing melody, evoke…
Reports of young suicide bombers prompt parents to rethink wisdom of sending children to study at Islamic schools in Pakistan Afghan families with children studying at Islamic schools or madrassas across the border in Pakistan are starting to bring them home for fear that they will be recruited as suicide bombers. Public awareness of the issue has grown since Afghan television stations showed…
More claims of divine intervention are being reported in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, with an operator of Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system saying he personally witnessed “the hand of God” diverting an incoming rocket out of harm’s way. Israel Today translated a report from a Hebrew-language news site, which noted the Iron Dome battery failed three times to intercept an incoming rocket headed toward Tel Aviv last…
Reprinted with permission fromThe Daily Caller (dailycaller.com) Multiple media outlets report that Hamas’s offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September 24th) as a mass terror attack. The attack was meant to generate as many as…
To enter Berlin’s biggest building site the tall, rangy man puts on a blue hard hat and a high-visibility jacket emblazoned with Besucher – visitor. But the 38-year-old is no ordinary visitor; his liquid eyes and distinctive profile suggest as much. Here, in 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II announced Germany’s entry into the first World War. Exactly 100 years later, standing on the same spot, is Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen: the man who…
Originally Published in The Guardian Experts say attacks go beyond Israel-Palestinian conflict as hate crimes strike fear into Jewish communities In the space of just one week last month, according to Crif, the umbrella group for France’s Jewish organisations, eight synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed by a 400-strong mob. A kosher supermarket and pharmacy were smashed and looted;…
Introduction: As we go to print with this issue of 21st Century WATCH, a national speech is being given by the president to outline a strategy to deal with the threat of ISIS. Despite constant intelligence warnings dating back at least a year and more, the administration declined to raise the issue publicly, and declined to take any action whatever until…
The sheer volume of raging crises has grown so large, it is getting difficult to keep up with anything other than the latest developments that media outlets believe will generate the most interest. Putting them in some kind of order of importance would also be a daunting task, because some threaten the whole civilized world; some threaten the continued viability of the…
