Category: Culture & Community

The Sikh community can celebrate the fact that programs produced by the Guru Nanak Daata Baksh Lai Mission are now available throughout the U.S.

The religious programs of Guru Nanak Daata Baksh Lai Mission, which are being telecast by the reputed Punjabi Channel, JusPunjabi, are now available across the entire United States. According to a message received by the mission from the channel president and CEO, Penny Yogiraj Sandhu, "JusPunjabi is now being watched all over United States on three major platforms. ...on Dish Network's channel 809, Time Warner Cable's channel 573 and Verizon FiOS' channel 1757..."

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Sacred Gurpurab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

“Vampires in literature became familiar because they conveyed some broader meaning, not just because they were scary,” explained Peter Logan, associate professor of English at Temple University.

According to Peter Logan, an associate professor of English at Temple University, the popularity of the first fictional vampire, appearing in 1819, rested on its portrayal as a heartless, self-centered, ruthless aristocrat preying on middle-class people. English physician John Polidori based his story, Vampyre, on a published book of folk tales from Eastern Europe that was popular in England at the time. But the vampires in the legends were dirty, smelly zombies that looked a lot like Eastern Europe’s uneducated peasants from the previous century, whereas Polidori’s vampire was an aristocrat who circulated in the highest circles and had mysterious appeal, particularly for women, even though he secretly despised them and everyone else.

Author Frank Joseph discusses some of the unorthodox history of the New World that's included in his new book "Unearthing Ancient America."

At most, all Americans know of their country's prehistory is that Asiatic nomads wandered out of Siberia across an Alaskan land-bridge sometime during the last Ice Age into our continent, where they eventually became tribal Indians. Cut to Columbus planting the Spanish flag on the beach at San Salvador 12,000 years later, and that is just about everything they have learned from teachers and television.

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Despite being bombarded by technological advances, children’s folklore is as lively as ever, says Binghamton University researcher Elizabeth Tucker in her latest book Children’s Folklore: A Handbook. It is just being ‘delivered’ in new ways.

Examining the traditional knowledge shared by children - usually without adult involvement - Children’s Folklore: A Handbook is the first American survey of children’s songs, games, jokes, rhymes and other things children teach each other, published since 1995.

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Despite being bombarded by technological advances, children's folklore is as lively as ever, says Binghamton University researcher Elizabeth Tucker in her latest book Children's Folklore: A Handbook. It is just being "delivered" in new ways.

Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the effect that gay marriage has on couples, friends and families.

A study conducted 13 months after same-sex marriage in Massachusetts became legal found that obtaining legal protections and making a public statement of commitment were the most often mentioned motivations for same-sex marriage. It also found that lack of family approval and difficulties planning and paying for the wedding were the most noted obstacles to marriage. The study, “Attractions and Obstacles While Considering Legally Recognized Same-Sex Marriage,” was conducted by Pamela J. Lannutti, PhD, associate professor of communication at Boston College and was published in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies.

Israel National Radio producer Ephraim Eliyahu presents a historical journey back to 15th century Spain to uncover the amazing history of the man they call "Columbus."

While Bible and Torah Codes divine the future using complex computer algorithms, and works like The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail derive pictorial ciphers to poke holes in the past, de-ciphering a rare triangular Kabbalistic signet now reveals the secret identity of the celebrated maritime adventurer best known to America. Israel National Radio producer Ephraim Eliyahu presents a historical journey back to 15th Century Spain to uncover the amazing history of the man they call "Columbus."

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This Kabbalistic siglum, in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, contains two secret names: Cristobal Colon, his "nom de plume," and Salvador Fernando Zarco, his birth name.

Although there are still people alive today who remember the aftermath of the crash of '29, to most Americans the Great Depression might as well be ancient history.

Political leaders, economic analysts and journalists are comparing the current financial meltdown to the Great Depression. “Worst Crisis Since the ’30s, With No End Yet in Sight” was a recent baleful headline from The Wall Street Journal. But while many senior citizens who lived during that time have personal memories of the Depression, for most Americans, the events that occurred between 1929 and the early 1940s seem long ago, and are difficult to imagine as a likely eventuality for the near future.

When it comes to sex roles in society, what you think may affect what you earn.

A new study has found that men who believe in traditional roles for women earn more money than men who don’t, and women with more egalitarian views don’t make much more than women with a more traditional outlook.

How to get along with those from the other side of the "political divide" at work and elsewhere - especially during the heat of the elections - has been revealed by Hale Dwoskin, author of the New York Times best seller "The Sedona Method" and featured teacher in "The Secret."

Hale Dwoskin, featured teacher in the book and film The Secret and author of The New York Times bestseller The Sedona Method, has revealed how to best get along with Republicans if you're a Democrat, and Democrats if you're a Republican, at the office and elsewhere.

This article is a must read for anyone who's ever tried to figure out the significance of the "summer of love." Although we are pretty certain that Mr. Diamant hasn't discovered "the key" to understanding the events of 1967, we are equally as convinced that he's offering us a valuable piece of the puzzle.

To understand the actual significance of what occurred in San Francisco during the Baptism of Fire we underwent, who walked the street of a City which had never existed save in the kingdom of David and the kingdom of Camelot, now found that he who had once entered the Golden Gate in Jerusalem in the Name of the Lord in the Time of their Visitation came again with his Generation to enter another Golden Gate in the Name of Love; as the Name of God; as in the Name of Christ Jesus; as a Child into the Gate of the West; for the Name of the Lord from the West is Love.

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