Archaeologist Michael Osband explains his findings at Majduliya in the Golan About thirty-five of us followed the archaeologist down a dirt track across the…
History
Josephus at Yodfat
Looking down at a line of simulated Roman attackers from near the top of Yodfat. The Roman camp was in the valley where the…
Seeing the Temple
The Levite and me At the entrance to Machon HaMikdash, the Temple Institute, stands a statue of a Levite dressed in his work clothes—a…
Shopping at the Shuk
The profusion of vegetables for sale at a Mahane Yehuda stand makes a colorful display The Mahane Yehuda market, the shuk, this week is…
The View from Ramat Rachel
Hypothetical Destruction, one of three sculptures at Ramat Rachel marking the corners of a building thought to have once stood there If geography and…
Ein Kerem’s Holy Hill
St. John of the Mountains Church, Ein Kerem photo: biblewalks.com When the second Temple stood in Jerusalem, Ein Kerem was part of the belt…
Behind the Kotel Plaza
Children play on Jerusalem’s Cardo. In background are original Roman/Byzantine wall and pavement. Photo: Yehudit Reishtein For years the back of the Kotel Plaza at…
Philistines and philistines
Pottery produced by the Philistines in the 10th to 9th century BCE. Reproductions on display at Corinne Mamane Museum of Philistine Culture in Ashdod…
Castel: Key to the Siege of Jerusalem
From Castel, looking down on Road 1 to Jerusalem From the Castel fortress, you look down on Road 1, the main route from the…
Trumpeldor Cemetery, Tel Aviv
Hand washing station at entrance to cemetery I probably should be embarrassed to say it, but I have rarely been to Tel Aviv. When…