Rev. Sun Myung Moon has died Sunday at age 92. The controversial founder of the Unification Church was known for attracting young converts in the 1970s and for conducting mass weddings. Sun Myung Moon was born in 1920 to a poor family in what is now North Korea. His life took a dramatic turn on […]
BILL MAHER: Do you think that they have a messiah complex, because I always heard that Obama was “The One,” you know. REIHAN SALAM: He hasn’t pledged to lower the level of the seas yet. MAHER: Okay, but wait. This is what Ann Romney, I heard Ann Romney say this week. She was interviewed on […]
The Hebrew month of Av contains many contradictions and competing emotions. … One way that we find comfort in Av is the claim that the messiah, the one who will bring redemption to the Jewish people and peace to the entire world, will be born on Tisha B’Av. … Like many of my peers, I […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 16, 2012 By Michael Breen [Originally published by Korea Times] On a freezing night in December 1950 during the last refugee exodus from North Korea, a heretic Christian preacher named Moon Sun-Myung stepped onto an iceflow and pushed out into the Imjin River. When he reached the far side, U.S. and […]
Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and supporters from nearly 40 states and more than 40 countries, including Israel, Uruguay, Cambodia, Canada, India and Australia, convened in Washington, D.C., for the international Living Legacy Conference to honor the legacy of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of blessed memory. The conference comprised a congressional leadership breakfast […]
A leather-bound religious text, thought to date from the fifth century but discovered only 12 years ago, will cause the collapse of Christianity worldwide, Iran has claimed. The book, written on animal hide, was confiscated during an anti-smuggling operation in Turkey’s Mediterranean region in 2000. Turkish authorities believe it could be an authentic version of […]
