New Evidence Shows That Iran Was Closer to Building a Nuclear Bomb Than Previously Thought
What the stolen archive shows.
October 25, 2018
How Did a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet End Up in Jerusalem?
When Canaan was an Egyptian province.
In 2004, a team of archaeologists obtained thousands of tons of dirt that had been illegally removed from the Temple Mount and began sifting through it—with the help of amateur volunteers—to retrieve whatever ancient artifacts might be found. The Temple Mount Sifting project, as the endeavor is now known, has chosen twelve of these items by which to tell the history of the site. The first, discovered in 2011, is an amulet with Egyptian hieroglyphics on it, bearing an official epithet for Pharaoh Thutmose III and likely dating to his reign, centuries before the putative date of the Exodus. Daniel Shani writes:
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The Palestinian Authority Cracks Down on Sales of Land to Jews in Jerusalem
In violation of the Oslo Accords.
Christian Zionism, American Exceptionalism, and the Protestant Roots of U.S. Middle East Policy
From Christopher Columbus to Mike Pence.
The Soviet-Jewish Translator Who Wrote Publicly about the Holocaust—until Soviet Censorship Caught Up with Him
Lev Ginzburg.
How Did a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet End Up in Jerusalem?
When Canaan was an Egyptian province.