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52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad. Today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind. January 27, 2021 2:45 pm Ranj Abderrahman Cohen, an Iraqi Kurdish Jewish man, stands at a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. Jews were historically Iraqs second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdads population according to a 1917 census, before their exhile in 1969. (...

Part I: Solomon The inauguration of a new president has caused me to pause to muse about what I consider the qualities and characteristics I am looking for, not only in a president, but also a governor, a mayor or anyone else who might hold an executive office of leadership. Over the next few weeks, I would like to share some thoughts on the subject. This week I would like to focus on Solomon, especially his asking God for wisdom. Next week the focus will be on what it means to be a servant lea...

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, NASA, Earth Observatory, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 2020 — what a tumultuous year! Pandemic, politics, and pandemonium reigned, and while many of u...

. . . . Rededication of temple / Year 4000 (164 b.c.e) One: Nowhere in the Old Testament books do we read that the Temple was to be rededicated after the Maccabean revolt 4000 years after the creation of Adam. Yet scribes appear to have edited the chronologies of the books in order to make the beginning of the new Israel in 164 CE to occur a neat 4000 years after God began his project with the creation of Adam. For some reason those editors did not feel a need to explicitly advertise the presen...

Rabbi Avi Weiss' weekly Torah commentary on the Va'eira parsha.

L.A. Gets its First Couscous Bar —and It’s Kosher Fifteen years ago, Alain Cohen co-founded Got Kosher? cafe on Pico Boulevard. Then, he went into hiding. More accurately, his sumptuous Tunisian couscous, which bore the culinary richness of his country of birth, went into hiding, purposely overshadowed on his menu by foods like hamburgers and chicken sandwiches, which Cohen anticipated would sell better. It wasn’t the first time Cohen felt he had to hide Tunisian cuisine. In the ...

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Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church. (Yoli Schwartz/ Israel Antiquities Authority) Beit Harel pre-military program students washing finds at the Beit Nattif archaeological excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority) High school pupils at the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation of the earliest soap factory in Israel, in Rahat, a Beduin city in the Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority) IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny ...

252 new immigrants arrive in Israel   Eleonora Shiluv/Ministry of Aliyah and Integration New immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community step off the plane at Israels Ben-Gurion International Airport, Dec. 2020. (Israel21C via JNS) - Immigrants from the Jewish "lost tribe" of Bnei Menashe landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport this week to build a new life in Israel. Hailing from Northeast India, the Bnei Menashe community is said to be descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel - specificall...

Follow The year 2020 may have been annus horribilis for the living, but it was a banner year for archaeology. Some discoveries enlightened and enriched us and others evoked howls, such as the “face of Yahweh” figurine discovered in Khirbet Qeiyafa, nails that some theorize may be related to Jesus’ crucifixion, or where the town of Bethsaida really was. Others shed fascinating new light on our history, such as the true character of the reviled King Manasseh, and the discovery that hominin...