News of the Past

In the Holy City of Jerusalem, where past and present walk hand in hand, Jews, Arabs and Christians last week were reading a strange new newspaper about Old Testament days. Written in modern journalistic style but faithful to ancient history, the monthly Jerusalem Chronicles bannered the news:

QUEEN OF SHEBA ARRIVES ; LOVELIER

SIGHT NEVER SEEN KING SOLOMON INAUGURATES TEMPLE

OF THE LORD

OMINOUS MESSAGE AGITATES PUBLIC;

PROPHET JEREMIAH GOES INTO HIDING

EZRA OPENS FIRST KNESSET [PARLIAMENT]

IN JERUSALEM

JUDAH MACCABEE DEAD! ISRAEL COMMANDER FALLS IN BATTLE

Jerusalem Chronicles is the brain child of Polly Van Leer, wife of a Dutch-Jewish industrialist. After hef husband went to Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library.

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