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Study tracks Arabia’s lost large mammals

New research compiles the most complete record of vanished species across the Arabian Peninsula, based on rock art, archaeology, and historical accounts.

Archaeologist proposes new location for Biblical Rephaim Valley

New research suggests the Rephaim Valley may have been named after a powerful Philistine family, not mythical giants.

Purim-Passover connection: Uniting the Jews, then building a nation - opinion

Step one – as epitomized by Purim – is the struggle to bring the Jews together, to unite as a loving community, albeit in a foreign land. Step two – Passover – is the forming of our own nation.

How to ensure this is the last Israeli-Palestinian war - excerpt

This piece is an adapted extract from Ittay Flescher’s upcoming book, The Holy and the Broken: A Cry for Peace from a Land That Must Be Shared.

By ITTAY FLESCHER
22/03/2025

Palestinians should be resettled in Arab countries that expelled their Jews

Israel integrated Jews forced to join them from those Arab counties. If justice is to be done, those Palestinians should be relocated out of their refugee camps and resettled in those same countries.

Purim celebrations: Deliverance, customs, and controversies

In addition to the core activities of reading the Megillah, sending gifts (mishloach manot), and donating three half shekels to charity, Purim is a time of carnivals and masquerades.

Trump should reject the long-accepted Palestinian narrative on indigeneity, refugeehood

After Trump’s bombshell remark concerning Gaza’s future, the next logical step for President Trump is to confront the half-truths and outright falsehoods of the Palestinian narrative.

The Mishkan testimony: How the Jews offer hope to the world amid a tidal wave of hate

We offer the world hope that it can withstand this tidal wave of hatred and escape the abyss of confusion. We have endured. So can you. We will show you the way.  

Jerusalem highlights: March 21-27

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

A Facebook history page noted a massacre of British Jews. Cue the laughing emojis

A post about a medieval pogrom in York, which recently hired its first rabbi in 800 years, was flooded by antisemitic trolls.

By GRACE GILSON/JTA
20/03/2025
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