Iranian Textbooks Teach Hatred of America, Arabs, and Jews
While glorifying martyrdom.
March 12, 2021
Could the Greatest Forgery in the History of Biblical Studies Have Been Authentic?
The precursor to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Many decades before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—a dealer in antiquities based in Jerusalem—claimed to have in his possession fifteen fragments of the “original” book of Deuteronomy, which he tried to sell to the British Museum. But the museum’s experts concluded it was a hoax, Shapira committed suicide, and two year later, in 1885, the manuscripts disappeared. Biblical scholars since then have assumed the fragments were fakes, but a young researcher named Idan Dershowitz thinks they might be wrong. Jennifer Schuessler writes:
March 12, 2021
The Merits, and Costs, of Israel’s Vaccines-for-Hostages Deal
And how it connects to the quest for the remains of a legendary Israeli spy.
Why South Africa Is Punishing a Chief Justice for Standing Up for Israel
The case of Mogoeng Mogoeng.
Could the Greatest Forgery in the History of Biblical Studies Have Been Authentic?
The precursor to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
During World War I, Germany Tried to Weaponize Radical Islam against Its Enemies
The Kaiser’s jihad.