Will a New Israeli Left Arise from the Ashes of the Old?
Peace became the left’s byword, and peace had become synonymous with terrorism.
December 14, 2022
A Box of Ancient Coins Provides Evidence of a Story from the Book of Maccabees
The caves of the Judean Desert were a refuge for more than one set of Jewish rebels.
As part of excavations of the caves in the Judean Desert—including those in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were famously found—archaeologists have uncovered a box of coins from the early 2nd century BCE, brought there by Jews fleeing the persecution of the Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The same persecution eventually prompted the uprising whose success the upcoming holiday of Hanukkah celebrates. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
December 14, 2022
The Temple Mount Has Room Enough for Peaceful Pluralism
The current hierarchy gives the most rights to Muslims, and the fewest to religious Jews.
Anti-Semitism Is Rising in Germany
And 2023 may well be worse.
Why Jewish Tradition Associates the Biblical Forefathers with the Values They Struggled Most to Uphold
“You will give truth to Jacob, lovingkindness to Abraham.”
A Box of Ancient Coins Provides Evidence of a Story from the Book of Maccabees
The caves of the Judean Desert were a refuge for more than one set of Jewish rebels.