Iran Is Using Interminable Negotiations as Cover to Continue Its March to the Bomb
A pantomime wrapped in farce inside a charade.
November 30, 2021
Signs of Jewish Life, and Death, Discovered at the Ancient Capital of Rabbinic Scholarship
Yavneh and its sages.
In an oft-retold talmudic story, Yoḥanan ben Zakkai, a leading rabbi at the time of the Second Temple’s destruction, negotiated with the soon-to-be-emperor of Rome, Vespasian, for the preservation of the village of Yavneh, along with its sages. Thus Yavneh, located about 15 miles south of Tel Aviv, became the center of rabbinic learning and the seat of the high rabbinic council known as the Sanhedrin for the next 60 years. Archaeologists have, for the first time, excavated a house from this era of the town’s history, writes Aaron Reich:
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A Controversy Involving a British Athlete Shows Britain’s Inability to Discuss Muslim Anti-Semitism
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When Jewish Groups Evict Politically Conservative Members
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Signs of Jewish Life, and Death, Discovered at the Ancient Capital of Rabbinic Scholarship
Yavneh and its sages.