In the Guise of a Tribute to Dead Children, the “New York Times” Offers a Mixture of Half-Truths, Distortions, and Propaganda
No number of corrections can fix it.
June 1, 2021
Beit Shemesh’s Three Millennia of Jewish History
Including a Second Temple-era synagogue.
Beit Shemesh is today a flourishing Jerusalem suburb, built near the remains of an ancient city, mentioned multiple times in the Hebrew Bible and first identified by the pioneering American scholar Edward Robinson in 1856. While the town’s western tel (archaeological mound) had been thoroughly explored in the 20th century, Boaz Gross led an excavation that began in 2018 of the previously unstudied eastern tel. Shortly after it began, the current residents of Beit Shemesh successfully lobbied the Israeli government to change its highway-expansion plan in order to preserve Gross’s findings, which have since revealed thousands of years of near-continuous life:
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Iran Is Making Gaza Part of Its Regional Network of Missile Factories
Teach a terrorist to fish . . .
Beit Shemesh’s Three Millennia of Jewish History
Including a Second Temple-era synagogue.
The Influencers vs. the Jews
The anti-Semitism of the beautiful.
Franz Kafka’s Lost Drawings
Made public for the first time.