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A man swallowed up by a humpback whale before being spat out. Adrián Simancas was near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the ...

The weekly Torah portion ‘Beshalach’ concludes with the first battle the Jewish people faced after leaving Egypt – the war ...

Me against my brother. Me and my brother against my cousin. Me and my brother and cousin against strangers.” It’s a saying attributed to Bedouins, and if we think that ...

That’s including the years he spent busing tables. Esau, 59, who lives in Arlington Heights with his wife, Julie, said the bills are paid — there is no car payment or house payment.

In 1968, he led a troop to the National Scout Jamboree. Great honor! Decades later, he organized a 55-mile trek through the ...

The current Orayta first year students include one who read Joyce’s Ulysses, another who studied several languages and is now reading R. Hirsch’s Nineteen Letters in the original, one who speaks ...

Abraham was Ismael’s father who made Hagar a concubine at his wife’s insistance. Twins Jacob and Esau started fighting when they were still in their mother’s womb. As Esau was the oldest ...

If Joseph had slept with Potiphar's wife, how much would it have impacted his destiny? We notice in the Bible that Esau, when he was hungry, asked his brother for food Upon eating it, the Bible shows ...

The SC Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) administers the States’s historical marker program which was established in ...