Prologue Journal – Page 36279 – Understanding current events through the lenses of the past and future.

Understanding Haredi society: Shas and the birth of a rebellion

Jerusalem Post Sephardim, across the spectrum of religious practice, saw in Shas more than just a political party. It wasn’t only a political organization that represented them in the legislature. https://www.jpost.com/in-jerusalem/understanding-haredi-society-shas-and-the-birth-of-a-rebellion-689005

The Hullegeb Festival: Breaking out in song

Jerusalem Post Due to take place at various venues around Jerusalem December 22-29, the event offers another opportunity to get a handle on what artistic members of the Ethiopian community have to offer/ https://www.jpost.com/in-jerusalem/the-hullegeb-festival-breaking-out-in-song-689004

‘There is nothing new under the sun’ – Ecclesiastes

Jerusalem Post The Kabbalah of Information and the Philosophy of Mathematics https://www.jpost.com/kabbalah/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun-ecclesiastes-688461

Palestinian confrontation with Israel can be avoided – Gaza factions

Jerusalem Post Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, said that his group’s dissatisfaction with Egypt was in the context of differences between “brothers.” https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/palestinian-confrontation-with-israel-can-be-avoided-gaza-factions-688297

Reuters exclusively reports up to 1 million COVID vaccines expired in Nigeria last month

Reuters Reuters exclusively reported that up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria in November without being used, one of the biggest single losses of doses and showing the difficulty African nations have getting shots in arms. Governments on the continent of over one billion people have been pushing for…

Reuters exclusively reports President Museveni says that western companies are blind to Ugandan investments

Reuters Reuters exclusively reported that President Yoweri Museveni said the Chinese private investment in Uganda is growing while Westerners are losing appetite to put money to work in the country, pledging to step up efforts to tackle corruption that have made slow progress. Museveni, in power since 1986 and one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, said…

Anti-PA ‘intifada’ in Bethlehem threatens Christmas festivities

Jerusalem Post Student stabbed to death at Jenin university https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/anti-pa-intifada-in-bethlehem-threatens-christmas-festivities-687818

What is Kabbalah?

Jerusalem Post Eduard Shyfrin Ph.D. and the Philosophy of Religion Project https://www.jpost.com/kabbalah/what-is-kabbalah-687490

Golden Beauty

Jerusalem Post “They shall make an ark… two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.” https://www.jpost.com/kabbalah/the-stance-of-the-kabbalah-of-information-687434

Reuters reveals Shell eyes return to Libya with oil, gas, solar investments

Reuters Reuters exclusively reported that Royal Dutch Shell is considering a return to Libya with a plan to develop new oil and gas fields and infrastructure, as well as a solar project, a decade after exiting the North African country because of unrest. The plan, details of which were seen by Reuters, marks a rare new oil…