American Grand Strategy, Why Kissinger Got Peacemaking Right and Carter Got It Wrong, and Israel’s Turkey Problem
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a threat to Israel. But Iran is a bigger one.
December 3, 2019
A Rare 3rd-Century Synagogue, and Its Even Rarer Mosaic
In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.
In 2014, archaeologists discovered the ruins of a synagogue from the 3rd century CE in the ancient town of Majdulia. Located in the Golan Heights, Majdulia was founded in the 1st century CE, around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, and was abandoned around 350. Further excavations have recently uncovered the remains of the colorful mosaics that once decorated the synagogue, as Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
December 3, 2019
Don’t Allow Arab States to Inherit the Property of Expelled Jews
Will they drive out and also inherit?
The Anti-Jewish Roots of John Rawls’s Political Philosophy
Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.
The Agency That Fights Religious Persecution Abroad Shouldn’t Also Fight Religion
Or “abuse of religious belief.”
A Rare 3rd-Century Synagogue, and Its Even Rarer Mosaic
In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.