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Rural Argentina is not where one would expect to find entire villages of Russian Jews. However, National Public Radio’s Juan Forero recently visited several such hamlets in a remote corner of the Argentine Pampas — broad grasslands very suited for cattle ranching. Back in the 1890s, Russian Jews fleeing anti-Semitic violence and discrimination arrived here by the…

Will honesty cost the 11-year-old Smith twins $50,000? Nate made national sports news when he won $50,000 by making an impossible hockey shot in a charity fundraiser. Now it turns out it was Nick who took the shot. Nate’d just had a cast removed from his arm — and let his identical twin brother, Nick, take his place. Now Nate stands to lose…

A Buffalo, N.Y., church is focusing on a non-traditional calling: business education. However, Pastor Stephen Andzel at New Creation Fellowship says he sees no reason instruction should be limited to spiritual topics. Churches, he says, are called to teach everything, from science to literature. “And even business,” writes Maryellen Tighe for the Buffalo News newspaper.…

“It’s a stately vessel floating on the Rhine River and somehow it looks vaguely familiar,” reports the German news site Deutsche Welle. “Plumbing one’s memory, it does indeed resemble illustrations from childhood picture books about the Bible.” “That’s just what Dutch television entertainer and puppeteer Aad Peters was aiming for. Nearly a year ago, he purchased…
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