The Lebanese Army and UN Peacekeepers Provide Cover for Hizballah in Southern Lebanon
Thirteen years after the Second Lebanon War began.
July 9, 2019
A Biblical-Era Purple-Dye Factory Explains an Archaeological Mystery
The first of its kind to be discovered.
Two of the dyes mentioned frequently by the Bible in conjunction with the priestly vestments and the Tabernacle tapestries—one purple, one azure—are thought by many experts to have been produced from the murex snail. To ancient Romans, “Tyrean purple” (named for the Lebanese city of Tyre) was the color of royalty. Using modern techniques to examine items collected in the excavation of Tel Shikmona, an ancient site on the Israeli coast, archaeologists have determined that they belonged to a workshop for processing the pigments of the murex—making it the first such site ever to be discovered, as Aaron Reich writes:
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The Moral Collapse at the Heart of the Rift between Israel and American Jewry
The more complicated Israel becomes, the less it is understood by American Jews.
The Anti-Semitic Propaganda Blaming Jews for Police Brutality in the U.S.
Under the cover of a “Jewish” organization.
The Holocaust Survivor Who Made the Nazis’ Language of Murder Decipherable
Nachman Blumental.
A Biblical-Era Purple-Dye Factory Explains an Archaeological Mystery
The first of its kind to be discovered.