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Ben Cohen Ben Cohen “The Neck and the Sword” is the title of an extensive interview with the prominent Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi in the latest issue of New Left Review, a London-based ...
Four 1,900-year-old swords, complete with wooden and leather scabbards, have been discovered in a remote cave in an Israeli desert, leading archaeologists to believe they were the booty of Jews ...
Bilaam is one of the most enigmatic villains in the Torah. He wasn’t a warmonger. He didn’t raise a sword against the ...
Four Roman swords and the head of a javelin known as a “pilum” were discovered by Israeli archeologists inside a remote cave near the Dead Sea, in an area that was known as a hideout of Jewish ...
Jewish fighters staged a series of revolts against the Roman Empire around this time — further work is ongoing to establish whether the swords can be linked to the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132-135 A.D.
Some leaders choose the sword--fear-mongering and demanding, through brute force, that others capitulate to their will. Other leaders, though, lead by way of the book--instead of frightening, they ...
A cache of ancient weapons from the Roman period has been discovered hidden in a remote cave in Israel. The cache includes four exceptionally well-preserved Roman swords from 1,900 years ago, the ...
The Christian nationalist Jair Bolsonaro and the leftist former president who served jail time have different views on Israel but both pose quandaries for Brazil’s polarized Jewish population.
Archaeologists Unearth Four 1,900-Year-Old Roman Swords in Israeli Cave Jewish rebels may have hidden the weapons away from the Roman army in the second century C.E.
The genocide in Gaza, backed by diaspora institutions, requires us to challenge the Jewish mainstream's embrace of a ...
The astonishing discovery in Israel of four swords from nearly 2,000 years ago evokes ancient rebellions and offers unprecedented opportunity for scientific investigation.