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Archaeology is a big problem for the Palestinian cause

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Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem found a 2,700-year-old stone seal last week near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It’s just a few inches in diameter, but it’s a big deal for Zionism—and another blow to the Palestinian...

Archaeology, Passover and Zionism

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Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem recently found a 2,000-year-old clay token that was used in connection with offerings at the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The four-inch token may seem small, but it’s actually a very...
Part of a collection of Chanukah lamps made from weapon parts, as featured at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Photo by Laura Lachman.

Swords into menorahs: Chanukah lamps made of weapon parts

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The Israel Museum Jerusalem is home to one of the world’s largest collections of Chanukah lamps, with some 1,000 items from across the globe—from the Middle Ages to the present day. A ubiquitous Judaica object,...
This 2,000-year-old coin was discovered in Jerusalem's City of David National Park. Credit: The Israel Antiquities Authority.

Evidence of Second Temple’s destruction unearthed in Jerusalem

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Tangible evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple and the devastating events that unfolded in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago has come to light with the discovery of a rare coin in Jerusalem’s City...
Lydia Marner with the 3,000-year-old Egyptian figurine she found on the beach. Photo by Idan Horen/Israel Antiquities Authority via TPS.

Woman on Israeli beach finds 3,000-year-old figurine

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A woman strolling on Israel’s Palmachim Beach south of Tel Aviv found a 3,000-year-old figurine of an Egyptian goddess, which she turned over to archaeologists at the Israel Antiquities Authority. Lydia Marner, 74, a resident...
The Darius inscription. Photo: Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority

Touted Darius inscription is inauthentic, Israel Antiquities Authority clarifies

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The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Friday that an inscription on an ancient shard uncovered in southern Israel, which it attributed earlier in the week with much fanfare to the Persian King Darius the Great, is...
A collection of wine jars after the restoration process. Photo by Dafna Gazit/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Ancient Jerusalem wine found to be seasoned with vanilla

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Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University were surprised to discover remnants of vanilla in 2,600-year-old wine jars unearthed in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. The researchers were investigating two buildings...
Montreal Holocaust Museum. Credit: Courtesy.

Montreal Holocaust Museum initiates $80 million project to relocate to Jewish Quarter

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The Montreal Holocaust Museum has undertaken an $80 million project to relocate into a new space in the city’s historic Jewish community. The building on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal will feature interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors...
Pinkas (“Communal Record Book”) of the Hevra Lomde Shas (Learners of the Talmud Society) in Lazdijai, a town in southwestern Lithuania, 1836. Courtesy of Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Photo: Getty Images/Thos Robinson.

‘A lost Jewish history reclaimed’: New digital archive reveals pre-Holocaust world

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A lost Jewish history has been reclaimed and is set to be unveiled on Monday. For the first time, more than 4.1 million pages of original books, artifacts, records, manuscripts and documents—cultural survivors of...
A miniature 10th-century Koran. Credit: Courtesy of the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

Doubled in 2021: Online visits to National Library of Israel in Arabic top 2...

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The National Library of Israel (NLI) said 2021 saw a significant increase in Arab users of its website and online resources across the Arab world, within Israel and globally. Compared to the previous year, 2021...