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 Rebecca Affachiner.

Recalling the 'Betsy Ross of Israel' - Rebecca Affachiner and her flag

By DAVID GEFFEN
 CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENTS on campus in front of hostages, near the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University, New York City, April 24.

History repeats itself, and we cannot forget the mistakes that our democracies made

By MARVIN HIER
 The decorated bowl dating back to the Abbasid period in Khirbet Hevra.

Volunteer discovers ancient decorated bowl at Israeli dig

 A picture of a Nazi rally in Buckeberg.

When it comes to the Holocaust, we are hyper-aware but super-ignorant

By AHARON E. WEXLER
 THE ANZAC Torah is held high by rabbi David Yitzchak Friedman during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I in 1915.

The story of the ANZAC Torah and how it survived

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN
 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS Betty and Itshak Eder built a new life for themselves on Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi.

Kindertransport: Second generation digs up Holocaust baggage

Mysterious Roman dodecahedron found in Norton Disney to go on display in Lincolnshire for the first time

Mysterious ancient Roman object leaves archaeologists scratching their heads

 Tiny Ocean

Jerusalem highlights May 3-9

 THE WRITER addresses students at Adelphi University’s 2018 Matriculation Day.

A lesson from Nazi Germany for university presidents amid tidal wave of antisemitism

By David Machlis
A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.

The inseparable link between the Jews and the Land of Israel must be taught

A demonstrator holds a sign across from the Columbia University campus with a student protest encampment in support of Palestinians, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 25, 2024.

Jewish self-flagellation post-October 7 can be blamed on intersectionality

By ALAN FELD
 A Jerusalem excavation site bearing signs of the 750 BCE earthquake destruction

Israeli researchers map out timeline of ancient Jerusalem

 During his 1799 siege of Acre, Napoleon promised the Jews the ‘reestablishment of ancient Jerusalem.’

24 biblical, historical events that happened in the Hebrew month of Nissan

 THE NILI Museum in Zichron Ya'acov.

Kleptomania, cyberterror, heroism: A trip to Zichron Ya'acov and Clil

By GRAEME STONE
 Assi Meshullam’s ‘Tophet’ layout digs into ancient Egyptian iconography and ambiguous textual content.

New art exhibit reexamines accepted biblical, societal wisdom

 Queen Esther and her throne.

New art exhibit presents a new dawn for Queen Esther

By YAEL UNTERMAN
 THE ILL-FATED couple: Yochanan Stahl and Celia Zohar.

Murder and rape in the dunes of pre-state Israel: The story of a hike turned horror

 The City of David remains a captivating blend of archaeological wonder and contemporary life.

City of David: Jerusalem's ancient capital and modern vision