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Excavations of the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem are revealing the steps of the site connected to one of the miracles of Jesus.

Israeli authorities and heritage advocates stressed that the Pool of Siloam should be preserved both as a pilgrimage site for Christians and Jews but also as a historical monument in its own right.

If you think that political feuds are bad, then try observing religious feuds. The latter make the former look sane in comparison.

Archaeologist Yonatan Adler argues that widespread, ordinary observance of the Torah did not take place until the Hellenistic period.

This story originally appeared on Kveller.  Shanah Tovah, Happy, Healthy New Year! The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is nearly here. I can tell

  (JNS) — Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 300-meter (985-foot) portion of a Second Temple-era aqueduct, the longest such continuous stretch ever found in Israel’s capital, the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced on Monday. The ancient waterway was discovered at a building site in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat HaMatos. “The aqueducts of Jerusalem […]

The cache of four swords and a shafted javelin-like weapon called a pilum was found in a crevice in a cave in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea.

When Florida lawyer Brian Sherr first visited the ancient synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City more than four decades ago, the site lay in ruins. The area around the demolished structure was …

Tradition credits Pope Gregory I with inventing Gregorian chant. But scholars believe he really established a new, more uniform standard in liturgy

From the blog of Samuel Koltov at The Times of Israel