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Figure in a short toga, one of three grouped together in the mosaic

Trio in Togas

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 8 February 2018
Antiquity

An exquisite Roman mosaic has been found by the Crusader bridge leading into Caesarea, hidden until now beneath the...

Archelais. Unsupervised archaeological site in area B

Wanton Destruction on a Calamitous Scale

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 8 January 2018

Wholesale looting and destruction of archaeological sites is going on under the nose of the Palestinian Authority. If we don’t...

A Muslim coin from the Umayyad period (8th century), on one side the Arabic inscription "There is no God but Allah" and in the center stands a five-branched Menorah. On the other side of the coin is the Arabic inscription "Muhammad, the messenger of God." These coins were apparently minted in Jerusalem.

What’s a Jewish Menorah doing on early Islamic coins and vessels ?

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 18 December 2017
Middle Ages

Islamic Ummayad coins, pottery and other artifacts reveal that Muslims used the symbol of the menorah in the eighth century,...

United Nations Vote – 29 November 1947

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 28 November 2017
Modern Times

The UN resolution partitioning Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state passed by 33 votes to 13 - just...

Did Jew Know?

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 29 October 2017
Modern Times

Jewish Statistics from World War I

Dying in Vain

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 29 October 2017
Modern Times

The horrors of World War I found poignant expression in the poetry of Wilfred Owen, whose death just a few...

Archaeologist Jo Uziel sitting on the steps to the Roman theater in the Wilson's Arch excavation

Backs to the Western Wall

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 16 October 2017
Antiquity

Worshipers at the Western Wall for the last two years have been blissfully unaware of an underground excavation conducted practically...

Members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Seated, left to right: poet Itzik Feffer; Solomon Mikhoels; Ben-Zion Goldberg, a visiting journalist from the U.S. who was Sholem Aleichem’s son-in-law; biologist and physiologist Lina Stern; Aaron Katz; and Yiddish writer Peretz Markish

The Night of the Murdered Poets

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 27 September 2017
Modern Times

Political pawns of the Soviet state, thirteen Soviet Jewish intellectuals were murdered in one night

Alex Wigman presents a bowl removed from the ancient tomb

4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 26 September 2017
Antiquity

Who’d want to be buried with toads? Analysis of artifacts from an undisturbed ancient tomb show that its contents included vessels...

The Saga of a Budapest Family Sukka

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 26 September 2017
Modern Times

Spanning numerous countries and generations, the remarkable odyssey of Arye Steinberger’s sukka art mirrors that of the Jewish people. Both...

Head of the IDF’s Harel Brigade Col. Uri Ben-Ari briefs his commanders on the outskirts of Jerusalem on June 1, 1967

1967 Declassified Comments

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 18 September 2017
Modern Times

Choice quotations from the Ministerial Committee on National Security and the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meetings in 1967...

The classical Greek style of Petra’s theater – built under Roman rule – indicates outside influences, but the local red stone makes the structure unique

Red Rose of Petra

By Sara Jo Ben Zvi - 12 September 2017
Modern Times

Rediscovered in the 19th century, the Nabateans’ hidden capital, necropolis, and treasure-house at Petra became a forbidden, sometimes fatal draw...

Sara Jo Ben Zvi

Trio in Togas

Wanton Destruction on a Calamitous Scale

What’s a Jewish Menorah doing on early Islamic coins and vessels ?

United Nations Vote – 29 November 1947

Did Jew Know?

Dying in Vain

Backs to the Western Wall

The Night of the Murdered Poets

4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads

The Saga of a Budapest Family Sukka

1967 Declassified Comments

Red Rose of Petra

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