The necklace above, Celebrating Spring, features a handmade ceramic pendant from Red Crow Arts (from Etsy).

You have won the prize shown below, a bead or two from each of the Art Bead Scene editors!

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

Haaretz: A Time magazine cover story claiming Israelis are more interested in their booming economy than reaching an historical peace agreement with the Palestinians is another version of the anti-Semitic falsehood that Jews prefer money above any other interest, the Anti Defamation League said in a statement on Thursday.

This vile anti-Semitism has apparently penetrated Israel’s largest daily, Yediot Acharonoth.

I came downstairs Monday morning to discover Monday morning that we had had some visitors during the evening.

It seems that at about 3am someone broke open a window in our study and put a child in through one of the gaps in the burglar bars.