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The Modern Jewish Holiday May Be Synonymous With Cheesecake, Cheese Platters and Other Dairy-based Products, but Shavuot Meals in the Middle East and North Africa Were Far Meatier Affairs

Nowhere in the Torah Is It Written That the Law Was Handed Down to Jews on Shavuot. That Interpretation of the Harvest Festival Came Later.

Adam Eilath, head of a local Jewish day school, and his daughter were taking part in a Lag B'Omer pilgrimage to an ancient Tunisian synagogue earlier this month when a shooter attacked, killing five.

Unique carvings were found on ossuaries in the damaged burial cave in northern Israel.

An ancient financial transaction from Jerusalem that was "set in stone" dates to the Early Roman period.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that dozens of Israeli squatters, with Minister of National …

The small fragment from a stone tablet bore an inscription that was produced for financial purposes. Researchers said the inscription was carved with a sharp tool onto a chalkstone (qirton) slab., Viral News, Times Now

It was discovered in an area known for its bustling commercial activity. The find was recently published in Atiqot, a peer-reviewed archaeological journal.

Jerusalem [Israel], May 21 (ANI/TPS): Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a remarkable financial record dating back 2,000 years on the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, Jerusalems main thoroughfare during the Second Temple period.

A 2,000-year-old stone tablet was discovered in Jerusalem with financial recordings indicating it is a receipt from the Early Roman era.