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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Every Jewish woman has the power to make Jewish souls before giving birth. This has been the Orthodox Jewish view in the past, and remains the Halakah for all Orthodox Jews to this very day. Abr...

Archaeology news: According to the Bible, David killed the giant Goliath (Image: GETTY) READ MORE The archaeological site, which sits near Israels border with Lebanon, was an Iron Age settlement built about 4500 BC and abandoned in 733 BC. It was at Tel-Dan that researchers found a nearly 3,000-year-old inscription on the so-called Tel Dan Stele - stone slab - mentioning the fabled House of David. Professor Meyer told Express.co.uk: "Up until 1993 to 1994 not one shred of archaeological evidenc...

Jewish Ledger The Iraqi Jewish Archives. Lost and Found…and LOST? By Carole Basri and Adriana Davis Carole Basri (JTA) – On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on.  It was the climax of a campaign of persecution that followed the establishment of Israel, which in turn hastened an exodus of what had been a strong and flourishing community. Of the 160,000 Jews who had lived in what is today Iraq...

The True Stories Behind These Strange And Mysterious Artifacts By Joseph A. Williams/Feb. 9, 2021 10:24 am EDT From the Sword in the Stone to ancient Egyptian airplanes, strange and mysterious artifacts summon people to put away their iPhones, don a fedora, snap a bullwhip, and get their faces melted. Some artifacts are intoxicating through their storytelling or by the puzzles they present. Basic questions such as who made an item, why they made it, and what it does fascinate all armchair arc...

52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad - today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind   February 5, 2021 (JTA) — On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on.   It was the climax of a campaign of persecution that followed the establishment of Israel, which in turn hastened an exodus of what had been a strong and flourishing community. Of the 160,000 Jews who had lived in what is today Iraq si...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In Parshat Yitro, Moshe’s father in law advises Moshe to bring judges to help him out so that he doesn’t have to serve the entire nation alone. In this way, Moshe can share the burden as the...

UNFAIR “CONCENTRATION CAMPS” COMPARISONS: IS THERE ANYTHING JEWISH LEFT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST? If the British invented concentration camps, the Nazis redefined them as the epitome of pure evil. Unfortunately, current encyclopedias and organizations fall short of making the distinction between Nazi and other camps. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) defines concentration camps as a place in which “people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without re...

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged to rebuild and revitalise the transatlantic military alliance after a bruising... “In antiquity, purple attire was associated with the nobility, with priests, and of course with royalty,” Sukenik told the BBC. “The gorgeous shade of the purple, the fact that it does not fade, and the difficulty in producing the dye, which is found in minute quantities in the body of molluscs, all made it the most highly valued of the dyes, which ofte...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, My first introduction to the Jewish Holiday of Tu B’Shevat was in Yeshiva Elementary School. In the middle of class, we were treated to what the teacher referred to as Bokser (Yiddish for caro...