The U.S. Needs to Break Free from Barack Obama’s Iran Strategy
Anti-imperialist fantasies.
January 10, 2023
Silver Coins Show That Money Was Being Used in Ancient Israel Far Earlier Than Previously Believed
Casting the story of Abraham in a different light.
In Genesis 23, Abraham is described as purchasing a burial plot in Hebron for “four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.” This passage has long troubled archaeologists, as evidence suggests that coins were not in use in the Levant until several centuries after the period in which the biblical patriarchs presumably lived. A new discovery, however, throws this conventional wisdom into question. Judy Siegel-Itzkovich writes:
January 10, 2023
Israel’s Chief Rabbis Should Condemn Anti-Christian Vandalism
Israeli police and political leaders take such crime seriously. It’s time for Israel’s religious leadership to join them.
The Supreme Court Should Take a Stand for Religious Charter Schools
If only opponents of expanded school choice would devote to improving public education half the ingenuity they invest in impeding competition.
Silver Coins Show That Money Was Being Used in Ancient Israel Far Earlier Than Previously Believed
Casting the story of Abraham in a different light.
The Hasidic Jew Who Convinces People to Give Their Kidneys to Strangers—and Helps Them Do It
In America, nearly 18 percent of altruistic donors are Orthodox Jews.