How Israel Should Respond to Hizballah’s Most Recent Provocation
The days of keeping the north quiet at any cost have passed.
March 27, 2023
The Three Jewish Soldiers Serving the Roman Empire in Ancient Gaul
What their gravestones tell us.
From at least the 10th century CE until the 15th, the Rhineland city of Mainz was one of the major Jewish centers of northern Europe. Much earlier—in the 1st century BCE—three Roman soldiers from modern-day Syria or the Golan Heights were buried there, and their gravestones remain. Henry Abramson explains why scholars have concluded that these soldiers were Jews, and how they got there. (Video, 20 minutes.)
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The Three Jewish Soldiers Serving the Roman Empire in Ancient Gaul
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