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Abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential election. The law predating Arizona’s statehood provides no exceptions for rape or incest and allows abortions only if the mother’s life is in jeopardy. Arizona’s highest court suggested doctors can be prosecuted under the 1864 law, though
Ethiopian Jews in dire need as Israel-Hamas conflict disrupts established aid
A Jewish humanitarian organization has completed an airlift of medical materials to enclaves of Ethiopian Jews as the ongoing Israeli conflict with Hamas has complicated established aid in the region. Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry (SSEJ), a volunteer-staffed organization in the United States dedicated to the assistance of the Ethiopian Jewish community, airlifted the medical supplies over the course of weeks. The aerial transport from the U.S. to the city of Gondar began on Mar. 9 and finished on
Research project explores the resettlement history of the Iron-Age metropolis of Hazor in Israel
The early origins of the Israelites are at the centre of a new research project at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. A team of researchers led by Hebrew Bible scholar and archaeologist Prof. Dr Benedikt Hensel will explore over a three-year period how one of the largest “megacities” of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean was abandoned and then resettled over centuries – and how the narratives about these events influenced the shaping of early
Scientist finds Bible chapter hidden for thousands of years
Scientists say they have found an old version of a Bible chapter that was hidden underneath a section of text for more than 1,500 years. Grigory Kessel, a historian at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, announced the discovery earlier this year in an article in New Testament Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. Kessel said he used ultraviolet photography to see the earlier text under three layers of words written on a palimpsest, an ancient
