O’Grady worked in northern California from 1971 until 1993, when he was arrested for abusing two brothers. He served seven years in prison and was deported to his native Ireland in 2000. He later moved to the Netherlands for several years. The Dutch Catholic Church came under fire in 2010 after it emerged that O’Grady had been working as a church volunteer in the city of Rotterdam. O’Grady had been living in the country under another name, but parishioners recognized him when “Deliver Us from Evil” was aired on Dutch television. By that time, the disgraced ex-cleric had already left the country.

The Roman Catholic diocese in Stockton, California, disclosed last year that it had agreed to pay $2 million to a brother and sister who alleged O’Grady molested them as children in the 1980s while they attended the Church of the Presentation and its school. The Sacramento Bee newspaper reported last year that the diocese has now paid out almost $21 million to O’Grady’s victims.

O’Grady was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated 2006 documentary “Deliver Us From Evil.” In the film he spoke openly of abusing more than 20 children as he was shuffled from one parish to another in California through the 1970s and 80s.

With the hundreds of Catholic clergy being exposed for sexual abuse, sexual molestation, pornography and related deviated sexual offences, mainstream Catholics and non Catholics alike, question the validity of the rituals of the Catholic church’s sacraments that were administered by these criminals. Were Catholic sacramental rituals administered by demonic clergy?

The custom has its beginnings in magic and cultic practices in which the ancients used to apply creams and makeup to the faces of the statues of their gods in order to “bestow life on them”. Over time the custom found expression in the lives of individuals, women and men alike, for both aesthetic and therapeutic reasons.

In Egypt and Babylonia they used to rub a dark red color on the face, which was derived from red ocher mixed with vegetable oil or animal fat. As opposed to them, the Sumerians used yellow ocher. The cosmetic preparations included powders, creams, perfumes and scented oils. Due to their high price they were marketed in small quantities in little vessels with different shapes.

The vessels were manufactured from a variety of materials such as: alabaster, stone, ceramic, glass and bone. There are also faience containers that come from Egypt.

The creams were meant to soften and protect the face and keep the skin fresh. They were made of vegetable oils to which beeswax or fragrant resin was sometimes added.

Eye makeup, besides fulfilling a religious/magical role, was also intended for medical purposes. The makeup kept small flies away that caused eye infections, protected the eyelids from drying out and from the desert sun. The eye shadow was mainly produced from crushed minerals mixed with water; sometimes resin was added to it and the preparation was kept in shells.

Over time the ancients began producing special small cosmetic containers that are made of various materials. Together with the vessel there was a small applicator (kohl stick) made of ivory, bone, bronze or glass. The kohl stick was thick at one end for spreading around the eyes, and spoon-like or spatulate at the other end for mixing the makeup and removing it from the vessel.

The kohl stick would be immersed in water or scented oil and then into the powder and in that way they would apply the eye shadow to the eyes.

Along with the “make-up kit” (the container and the kohl stick), stone palettes were found that occur in a variety of geometric forms, some of which are decorated with floral or animal patterns. These palettes were probably used for grinding and crushing the cosmetic’s ingredients into powder.

Very little is known about wearing makeup as practiced during the First Temple period. In the Bible the use of makeup is mentioned disparagingly. Jeremiah, wanting to compare Jerusalem to a prostitute wishing to make herself pretty, talks about eye makeup and uses the expression “…you enlarge your eyes with paint” (Jeremiah 4:30).

However, based on the artifacts that have been uncovered from archaeological excavations, there is no doubt that makeup was commonly used during this period.

Included among the cosmetic implements that were used to apply makeup to the eyes and face are small stone bowls that were common in this period in the Levant. These bowls have a depression in their center, are polished and decorated with incised geometric patterns.

Face care was highly developed in Greece and Rome. Women would apply creams and bright colors to their faces. They would apply red (a floral/algae essence) to their lips and cheeks and black (derived from antimony or soot) to their eyes and eyebrows.

Most of the vessels in Greece were made of clay and were adorned with drawings that depict the use of cosmetics. Ceramic boxes with lids, known as pyxides, were also found in which there were rouge and various cosmetic materials, and there were flat and round containers that were made of bronze or marble.

Through the objects that are uncovered in excavations – cosmetic containers, small bowls and various minerals, a woman from the Second Temple period would wear makeup. The custom of face care was widely practiced in Israel during the Second Temple period. The makeup holder that was characteristic of the period is a long narrow kohl tube. Vessels were found that are composed of two to four such tubes. In most instances the kohl stick itself is made of bronze; some are also decorated with incising. In addition, the ancients used cylindrical containers with ceramic, bone and glass lids.

The cosmetic industry makes millions annually, as King Solomon once said, “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

Dr. Mahmoud Jame’ stated Sadat was briefed on the deal, according to the Jordanian-based Albawaba website. Jame’, a member of the first Consultative Council in Egypt, stated, “One morning Sadat took me with him in private and without a guard to the (Syrian part of the) Golan Heights, and I swear by the Almighty G-d that he put his hand on my shoulder and as we were standing on the Golan Heights, he told me literally, ‘Look, Mahmoud, this is the Golan. Can any power seize it so easily, even if it is Israel?”

Sadat’s friend replied, “This is impossible,” and Sadat replied, “I will tell you a dangerous secret, the Golan Heights were purchased by Israel for $100 million. The check was received by both Hafez and Rifa’at al-Assad and deposited in their accounts in a Swiss bank.” In return, Hafez Assad, order the Syrian forces to withdraw immediately from the Golan Heights in the June 1967 war without firing a single shot and handing it over to Israel, Jame’ continued.

“This story and my testimony of this event, has been kept secret for many years until 1999, when I alluded in the book ‘I Knew Sadat’ to the incident without revealing the full details.

“In 2006, when I was hosted by Almihwar channel, I provided the full details frankly, to the extent that even Moataz was stunned. “The next day, Almihwar hosted Mr. Amin Gemayel, Lebanon’s former president, and the subject was raised with him. He supported my words. Then the Beirut-based Future channel tried to invite me to Beirut to discuss the subject, but I apologized, and refused.”

At first, she and her husband Leonard largely financed the symbol that she created in 1992 with former Self Magazine editor-in-chief Alexandra Penney. Little pink bows handed to women at department store makeup counters — to remind them to get their annual breast exams — led to a multimillion dollar campaign funded by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, including some $50 million from the Lauders. The money that was raised helped found the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Cancer Center at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 2009.

Lauder was born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria. Her Jewish parents took their baby and fled the flames of Nazi-occupied Europe, settling in the safety of the United States. The young immigrant attended public school in New York City and then began to attend CUNY’s Hunter College, when she met her husband, Estee Lauder’s elder son. They married in 1959.

Evelyn Lauder had a passion for photography, for food and for writing, and is the author of the book, “In Great Taste: Fresh, Simple Recipes for Eating and Living Well.” She died on Saturday at her New York City home, from complications of non-genetic ovarian cancer, diagnosed in 2007. Lauder is survived by her husband Leonard, who is now chairman emeritus of Estee Lauder. Her son William is executive chairman of the firm, and second son Gary is managing director of Lauder Partners LLC, a technology investment firm.

Israel Under the Roman Invasion

NOTE: there is no Palestine or Palestinian peoples identified on the map.

900 B.C. Assyrian Invasion

NOTE: there is no Palestine or Palestinian peoples identified

1000 B.C. Map of Judah & Israel During Foreign Invasions

 NOTE: there is no Palestine or Palestinian peoples identified.

1000 B.C. Map of Judah & Israel During Foreign Invasions

It became the accepted division worldwide as the Bible was translated into Latin and many other languages, even though the chapter endings seem arbitrary and even illogical.

For example, Samuel I ends in the midst of the saga of King Saul’s death, whereas the Jewish sages considered the book of Samuel to be one, undivided book.

Some scholars believe that the chapter divisions were the work of the students of Cardinal Hugo of Saint Cher, 1240 C.E. who was trying to write a concordance. It is more generally believed that Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury (1228 C.E.), is responsible for them.

Shiva Le’Bitzaron, the Project for Restoring the Jewish Index & Division of the Bible – is trying to get Jews to return to the original Jewish index. “The psukim (verses) are ours (Jewish –ed.),” explained project head Betzal’el Ariel. “The question is where to start a new chapter. When you divide a text into chapters, you bring your own ideas and ideology to this division.”

“Our sages,” he explained, “made their own division which we call seder (lit. order –ed.), which means to organize: organize our learning, our thoughts, and our belief. We want to restart using this original Jewish division.”

The separation of verses in the Bible is universally according the Jewish mesorah. This is the tradition handed down through the ages to which the tropes [symbols designating the tune for reading that indicate where phrases and verses end, ed.] adhere.

The verse numbering, however, was later arranged to suit the Christian chapter divisions, starting to count anew at the beginning of each chapter. This numbering is attributed to the 16th century printer Stephanus, who did it for convenience.

It is the chapter division and the verse numbering that will go back to their original Jewish roots in this project, an aspiration that can be fulfilled now that the Jewish nation has come home.

Dig site Skyview /Israel Antiquities Authority

Dig supervisors noted that illustrated Byzantine holy objects are very rarely found in the Holy Land. The find was presented by dig supervisor Yana Tchekhanovets, along with Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dr. Doron Ben Ami.

Box with cover - Israel Antiquities Authority - Clara Amit

The box contained two icon paintings surrounded by gold leaf and was probably a personal prayer object. It is 2.2 cm. (about 0.9 inch) long by 1.6 cm. wide and is made from the bone of a large animal, cattle, a camel or a horse.

One painting inside the box depicts a bearded man with dark hair, wearing what appears to be a white tunic. The other painting seems to show a female figure dressed in blue.

Box -- inside - Israel Antiquities Authority / Clara Amit

Similar boxes were found on bodies discovered in burial caves in the Moshchevaya Balka site in the northern Caucasus.