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Tuesday, April 29 12:00 PM ET Live on Zoom For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the beating heart of the Jewish people. The connection between Jews and Jerusalem stretches back to the Heb...
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All struggles are related . . . to the Jews.
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In the 1860s, a British explorer discovered the City of David. Fifteen years ago, the Palestinian Authority tried to stop those who wanted to follow in his footsteps.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Ivan Karamazov in Gaza.
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We are deeply grateful to Miriam Krupka and Christine Rosen for their thoughtful responses. One a teacher on the frontlines of the ed-tech debate, the other a philosopher of technology, both Krupka an...
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Today, it is not uncommon for daily activities to be mediated through data-gathering screens: when you are putting gas in your car at the gas station, the screen prompts you to respond to a survey, as...
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On October 7, 2023, the terrorist forces of Hamas invaded the Israeli communities surrounding Gaza. Despite vaunted intelligence and military power, Israel’s borders were susceptible to the breach, an...
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“David Ben-Gurion was Israel’s Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton in one,” Neil Rogachevsky writes in Mosaic’ s feature essay this month. Ben-Gurion was guided by a simple idea, what he called ma...
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In this month’s feature Mosaic essay , the literary scholar Gary Saul Morson argues that the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky presents a conundrum: On the one hand, he was the great writer of...
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I thank my fellow biblicists Richard Hess , Ronald Hendel , and Benjamin Sommer for sharing their insights into the question of the historicity of the exodus. As I mentioned in my essay, more and...
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Many are sure that one of Judaism's central events never happened. Evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests otherwise.
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The people who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, and how they understood their jobs.
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How Europeans uncovered ancient Akkadian and Sumerian.
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Abolitionism wasn’t welcoming to Jewish sympathizers.
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The story of Hilbert and Howard Margol.
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Massena and the exception to the American exception.
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Kidnapped choruses.
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The Flushing Remonstrance.
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A clay jug decorated with camels is a window into history.
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The story of Joseph Schechtman.
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A Middle Eastern word, a North African wind, and Japanese cartoonists.
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Understanding the man and his thought.
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Egyptian and Greek pottery could be remnants of a biblical battle.
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A concept as old as the Bible.
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I want to thank Mathis Bitton and Jack Sadler for their well-researched and thought-provoking investigation into the effects of the proliferation of educational technology over the last few decades. I...
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The murderous delusions of the Zizians.
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Lessons from a Jewish revolutionary and a Hebrew date.
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Israel and Samuel Goldfarb composed Shalom Aleikhem in 1918.
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Dating from the 2nd century BCE.
