World’s tiniest bible to be presented at Israel Museum for 50th anniversary

Logo of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As part of its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, the Jerusalem-based Israel Museum will display the “Nano Bible,” the world’s smallest bible, an Israeli innovation created at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

The tiny bible will be displayed alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, a manuscript of the Jewish bible from 10th century C.E. The Nano Bible is a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead. It is 0.04 square millimeters, and 0.00002 millimeters (20 nanometers) deep. The 1.2 million letters of the bible were written using a focused ion beam generator that shot gallium ions onto a gold surface covering a base layer of silicon.

Dr. Ohad Zohar and Professor Uri Sivan of the Technion Physics Department developed the idea, and the engineers of the Technion’s Sara and Moshe Zisapel Nanoelectronics Center were responsible for the manufacturing of the chip and the development of the software that allows the engraving of the letters.

The Israel Museum will also exhibit a documentary on the creation of the Nano Bible and will enable the reading of the biblical text under a microscope.

http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2015/4/16/worlds-tiniest-bible-to-be-presented-at-israel-museum-for-50th-anniversary

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Noodzaak om geweld tegen moslims ook in kaart te brengen

English: Illustration about a lesbian girl, traditionally dressed, asking if one can be gay and Muslim Nederlands: Illustration over een meisje, moslima, die zich afvraagt of je tegelijk Moslim en Lesbisch kan zijn. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

De 16de april is er in Nederland een positief initiatiefvoorstel 'Zicht op moslimdiscriminatie' ingediend bij het parlement. Volgens de partijen hebben twee op de vijf moskeeën in Nederland in de afgelopen tien jaar te maken gehad met gewelddadige incidenten. Dat ging dan om dreigmails of bekladding en zelfs in één geval een varkenskop voor de deur.

Zoals in België wordt daar in Nederland niet echt een registratie van moslim discriminatie gemaakt, terwijl wij toch in een vrije democratische samenleving zouden moeten wonen waarbij iedereen het recht moet hebben dat geloof te belijden welk zij persoonlijk willen belijden.

Met financiële bijdragen van de Open Society Foundations en stichting het PALET en met steun van het Meldpunt Discriminatie Regio Amsterdam heeft Ineke van der Valk een document opgesteld met de resultaten van haar studie over de Islamofobie die in de hand wordt gewerkt door de enkele gevallen die een hele gemeenschap in een slecht daglicht stellen.


Het onderwerp discriminatoire agressie en geweld tegen moslims bevond zich in de winter van 2014/ 2015 in het middelpunt van de actualiteit. De behoefte aan concrete gegevens,achtergrondinformatie en duiding is groot. Vandaar dat Ineke van der Valk zulk een Monitor Moslim Discriminatie studie heeft voorgesteld.
Monitorstudies tonen elke keer weer aan dat discriminatie op belangrijke terreinen, zoals op de arbeidsmarkt, nog steeds voorkomt en dat verschillende maatschappelijke groepen, zoals etnische minderheden, homo’s en mensen met beperkingen, hierdoor sociaal worden achtergesteld. Dat moslims meer en meer doelwit zijn geworden van discriminatoir handelen en deze vorm van discriminatie zich niet zelden verschuilt achter religiekritiek, bleef vaak onderbelicht. Dit heeft mede geleid tot het besluit een meerjarig Monitor project te starten.

Er is nog zeer veel werk aan de winkel. Alsook valt het op dat door dat er zoveel negatiefs over moslimterroristen op televisie komt dat mensen erg bang zijn geworden voor een groeiend aantal islamieten. die angst bij veel mensen brengt teweeg dat er een versterking van discriminatie optreed, maar dat politie eenheden geen slechte beurt willen halen bij de plaatselijke oorspronkelijke christelijke bevolking. dit maakt dat als er vandalenstreken worden uitgevoerd tegen moslims deze vaak ongestraft gaan en deze niet altijd correct worden geregistreerd. Uit onderzoek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam blijkt bijvoorbeeld dat wanneer er een raam wordt ingegooid bij een moskee, de politie zoiets vaak onder andersoortige incidenten zoals vernieling schaart. Dat maakt het lastig om de omvang van de incidenten te meten.

D66-fractievoorzitter Jan Paternotte:

 'Het is al erg genoeg dat deze geweldincidenten er zijn, maar breng het in kaart zodat er wat aan gedaan kan worden. Betere en aparte registratie is nodig. Geen Amsterdammer zou moeten vrezen om zijn of haar geloof te belijden'.

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Talpiot Tomb a family grave of the tribe of Jesus

  A 1st century CE stone ossuary (bone box) found in a burial tomb in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiot. In 2007, James Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, made the startling claim that the tomb shows Jesus wasn't resurrected and was in fact buried with his family in this tomb (Getty Images)

Further research on Talpiot Tomb which was discovered in East Jerusalem in 1980 may indicate that it is with “virtually unequivocal evidence” the family grave for Jesus of Nazareth, his wife Mary Magdalene, and his son, Judah.

In 2007 already a documentary made a case that the 2,000-year-old "Tomb of the Ten Ossuaries" belonged to the family of Jesus of Nazareth. The inscriptions and the approximate dates of burial have led some to suggest the Talpiot Tomb means Jesus married, that he fathered a child, and that the existence of bodily remains means the Resurrection could never have happened.

About that last tomb of Jesus they seem to overlook the inscription in Aramic which  reads “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”, which for me would more indicate that it could perhaps be the grave of Jesus his brother but not that one of Jeshua himself. It is not because an inscription ‘Yeshua bar Yehosef’ (‘Jesus, son of Joseph’) can be found written in the tomb that it has to be the tomb in which Jesus was buried. It also just could be a reference to the people buried in it their connection with Jeshua, the son of man from Nazareth who was considered to be the Messiah.

The scientist makes a reference to a gravestone for the people when it could be found in Liverpool. But he does seem to forget that when there is such a mention on it of the four Beatles it does not have to be that all four  would really be buried together in that one grave at that one place where they were born.

It would be wrong to hail the found bones and ossuary boxes as the most significant of all Christian relics. It at the same time could be wrong to say it is a forgery, misinterpretation and reckless speculation. But to say it is really the place where Christ Jesus would have been placed after he died is doubtful, also because it does not comply with the writings from scripture and previous civic writings about the tomb and about the place which was guarded by the Roman soldiers.

In any case the two ancient artifacts found there in East Jerusalem have set off a fierce archaeological and theological debate in recent decades.

How can they have "unequivocal evidence" of the grave being that one of Jesus? Do they have DNA of Jesus? Many at the time could see and hear the witnesses of those who had seen the risen lord and were even prepared to die for what they had witnessed. Their statements made that others after them did not need (further) physical proof.

Many people against Christianity are pleased with those findings of those scientist but forget that we do have the writings from earlier days which are convincing enough and the writings which are God-given for our Christian community to continue to go strong.

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Yazidi, they who were created

Conical roofs characteristic of Yazidi sites mark the tomb of Şêx Adî in Lalish (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yazidi comes from "Azdaim" which means "I was created". They say they follow God and His angels. For them there is only One God Who has good and bad in His Hands. They are not against any religion and are not against any people.

The Yazidi or Ezidis have been oppressed for many years by the Ba'athists, Al Qaeda,  and now IS. According to one of the preachers it is because they are a small community of believers, a closed religion of a people of faith, mercy and humanity, which does not have much contact with the world, and by being humble an opportunity is taken by others to oppress them. Others want to annihilate them and not having their own state to defend themselves, not having weapons, they need protection.

They just want to live in peace and do not want a specific country for them because according to their faith the world (or globe) is a garden for every one. In a garden are many flowers and they consider them also one of the flowers which can give colour to the garden.



Many Kurds know the Ezidis as refugees, IDPs, even as devil worshippers - though mostly through biased media reports. Kawa wants to learn the truth about the people’s religion and daily life. In a ZLR episode Kawa goes to a Ezidi community in Lalesh, the main Yazidi temple complex in the KR. He meets a young man called Zaid, who shows Kawa various aspects of Ezidi life; from how they eat, to prayer in their temple, to who is protecting them from IS. Zaid and his family were on Mount Sinjar and along with others subjected to much horror and deprivation.

In a video on Middle East Alliance Community Baba Chawesh tells about that garden and his people

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Not able to make contact with God because to busy

Do you have that feeling that there is to much to do in a day and that you do not have any time to do something different than your work and afterwards to fall in the couch to relax?

Do you find everyday like a battle to stay on top of things?

There are the kids,which you have to get them ready for school, before you are off to work. Then you have to tackle all the problems at work.
Having a day job, family commitments and then there are so many things you want to have done or which consume your day.

Seeing the clock tick, the time passing by fast, you do not seem to find time to do something else than those things which are required from you.
Finding time for some alone-time with God can be a hassle and at times seem impossible.
Do you know it is not so difficult to take time with God?

Any moment of the day you can pray and have a little word with God. You can use your own words. If you do not know how to start off, you can begin with saying "Our Father" and than building your phrases around the text of that prayer Jesus gave us as an example to pray.

Another way is just before you get out of bed, to take a little moment, waking up with a prayer.
After you get home from work, have done the cooking, even watched some television, before going to bed, take some time to read in the Bible. Make it a custom just before putting yourself at rest to take one moment to let the Words of God come to you. Even when you would read just some or at least one bible verse a day, and let it inspire you, you will grow in the Word of God.

It is not bad to end the day with a retrospective. Just take one moment really for yourself and for your Maker.
At the end of the day check if you tried once more to live your life as God asks you to do. Know that it does not have to be so hard hard to reach out to Him in prayer. He is there to listen to you at any moment. Be it that you are in the bathroom or any small room, no matter where, you can talk to Him. Dare to speak to Him and ask Him to help you lead a Christian life.

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