The Struggle for Iraq, and What It Means for Israel
The U.S. faces off with Iran.
October 17, 2018
Archaeologists Discover Evidence of an Ancient Mass Beheading in Jerusalem
The bloody reign of Alexander Yannai.
After the death of Judah the Maccabee in 160 BCE, his brother Simon assumed the position of both high priest and king—establishing the Hasmonean dynasty that ruled over Israel until 40 BCE. In a burial site adjacent to an ancient cistern in Jerusalem, archaeologists have now found evidence to support existing accounts of the war and civil strife that characterized the Hasmonean period. They believe the site dates to the reign of King Alexander Yannai, Simon’s grandson, who ruled from 103-76 BCE and is depicted by the ancient historian Josephus and the Talmud as cruel and ruthless. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:
October 17, 2018
How Religious Faith—and Knowledge of Arabic—Can Help America’s Middle East Diplomacy
The danger of forgetting that man cannot live by bread alone.
What Israel Lost When It Stopped Making Its Own Fighter Jets
Killing the Lavi.
Archaeologists Discover Evidence of an Ancient Mass Beheading in Jerusalem
The bloody reign of Alexander Yannai.
Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and British Anti-Semitism
And British insistence that there is no such thing.