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April 11, 2024

Reconstructing a Six-Millennium-Old Ivory Vessel

And learning about the elephant it came from.

According to the biblical narrative, Jewish history in the Land of Israel begins with Abraham, who would have lived in the middle part of the third millennium BCE. Excavations of the area often yield findings from much earlier eras. Gavriel Fiske reports on one:

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April 11, 2024

  1. A Pessimistic Look at the War in Gaza

    After six months, who’s winning?

  2. Israelis Are Buying Guns

    What Zionism has and hasn’t changed about the Jewish condition.

  3. Confronting Campus Anti-Semitism while Preserving Freedom of Speech

    There is much that administrators, and the government, can do.

  4. Reconstructing a Six-Millennium-Old Ivory Vessel

    And learning about the elephant it came from.

  5. The Rabbi and the Basketball Coach

    An unlikely partnership at the University of Kentucky.