Syria Forfeited Its Claims to the Golan Heights When It Used Them to Attack Israel
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty upholds the international order.
March 28, 2019
A Hasmonean-Era Village Discovered in Jerusalem
Evidence of one of the city’s golden ages.
In the centuries following the construction of the Second Temple in 516 BCE, Jerusalem remained a relatively small city. But after the Hasmoneans threw off their Greek rulers and reestablished an independent monarchy some 250 years later, their capital grew in size and importance—as is made evident by the discovery of an agricultural village in what is now an Arab neighborhood of the city. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
March 28, 2019
The Israeli Response to Recent Rocket Attacks Marks a Strategic Shift
No longer playing by Hamas’s rules.
The French Legal System Tries to Blame Sarah Halimi’s Murder on Marijuana Rather Than Anti-Semitism
Radical Islam or reefer madness?
A Hasmonean-Era Village Discovered in Jerusalem
Evidence of one of the city’s golden ages.
A Poet’s Lament for Poland’s Lost Shtetls
Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.