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Norman Golb, Dead Sea Scrolls Contrarian, Is Dead at 92 He challenged the conventional wisdom about a major archaeological discovery. He also led a successful effort to open it for study by a wide range of researchers. Norman Golb in an undated photo. He took issue with the standard scholarly thesis about the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he galvanized other scholars to question it as well.Credit...University of Chicago Archive Published Feb. 15, 2021Updated Feb. 17, 2021 In 1947, a young Bedouin sheph...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language Announces Winner of Architecture Competition Spread the word. Minveh. The new Center will be built at the prestigious National Quarter in Jerusalem, adjacent to the Knesset and the Israel Museum. The design competition was held in collaboration with the Association of Architects and Urban Builders in Israel. Congratulations to Meislitz, Kasif, Roitman on the winning design! The first runners up, tied for second place, were the designs by Michael Peled and Dan...

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, The purpose of life is to live it. The allegory of Torah reiterates this over and again. In parashat Mishpatim. The text says: מכשפה לא תחיה “A witch, you shall not allow to live.�...

Rachel Feldhay Brenner, the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, February 4 in Madison. She was 74. Born in Zabrze, Poland, Brenner moved to Israel with her family in 1956. She studied at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of York in Toronto before coming to Madison, where she joined the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies in 1992. In addition to chairing the department from 2004 to 2007, Brenn...

Follow Feb. 10, 2021 Ever since she was a little girl in Catholic school, Hilary Giaccardi had questions about God. These would often land her in the principal’s office. Now at 60, she’s still on her quest and is learning biblical Hebrew online in order to read scripture in its original form. This involves not only learning to read the language but learning a culture, Giaccardi, an American living in France, told Haaretz by Zoom after her weekly lesson on Monday. The Israel Institute of Bib...

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, Here’s some data we don’t really talk about enough. Numbers are often far more accurate than gut feelings and moods. One. That’s the number of IDF soldiers killed in action in 2020. One. F...

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, As an archetype, Pharaoh is not a bad actor, he is simply an aspect of each one of us, our being in denial and thus chaotically attending to too many things in experience.1 The same is true for ...

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, The most frequently used names that refer to G-d in the Torah are the tetragrammaton (YHWH), Elohim, El and El Shaddai. In the previous parshah, the text connects the tetragrammaton with the ver...

The “Might Less Be More?” Edition Photo: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. DNR for Labor? In Seeking Peace, Might Less Be More? Would Israelis and Palestinians be better off if Americans stopped trying to broker grand peace accords? What’s So Wrong with Law & Liberty A group of conservative lawyers in Isra...

Don Rittner Twas The Night Before Christmas Began in Troy By Don Rittner on December 11, 2010 at 12:51 AM Twas The Night Before Christmas Began in Troy Perhaps the most famous holiday poem ever is “Twas The Night Before Christmas” or as the author Clement Moore penned it,  “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” Many do not realize that there is a local connection to this poem. Original publication of poem in Troy Sentinel, Dec. 23, 1823. Clement C. Moore, (1779-1863) was the so...