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The curse tablet found on Mount Ebal. Photo by Jaroslav Valach.

Scholars expound on Mount Ebal curse tablet with oldest Hebrew text

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A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as...
Jewish worshipers reciting the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during Passover, April 18, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Obfuscating the particularity of Passover

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In an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on Friday, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai described visiting the Poland-Ukraine border, where he witnessed a “never-ending stream of refugees fleeing the savage war that has torn apart their lives.” The aim of...
Passover table setting. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Passover seder’s takeaways speak to the woke divide

This Saturday night in the midst of the loosening COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of America’s cancel culture pandemic, Jewish families will celebrate the Passover seder. Veterans of seders past anticipate the drinking four cups...