What Israel’s Settlement-Legalization Law Does, and Why It Matters
A watershed moment.
February 9, 2017
Archaeologists Find a Twelfth Dead Sea Scroll Cave—Without Scrolls
They were most likely stolen in the 1950s.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are called that because they were discovered in caves in the Negev desert, not far from the Dead Sea, in the vicinity of the ancient community of Qumran. For some time, eleven caves have been known to have contained Jewish parchments from the Second Temple period. Now archaeologists have found one more, but believe the scrolls in it were taken by Bedouin in the middle of the last century. Ruth Schuster writes:
February 9, 2017
The Future of Iraq after Islamic State
Iranian influence and sectarian fragmentation.
Fighting Hizballah in Latin America
Money-laundering, heroin, and terror.
Minimizing the Holocaust at the “New Yorker”
The competition for victimhood wasn’t started by Jews but in reaction to them.
Archaeologists Find a Twelfth Dead Sea Scroll Cave—Without Scrolls
They were most likely stolen in the 1950s.