Thursday, October 24, 2013

Earthquakes and King Solomon’s Mines in the Jordan Valley

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The Jordan Valley Photo: Tango7174 The Jordan Rift valley - Earthquakes Galore! Here in Israel we’ve just experienced five mild but ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Riddle of the Sphinx

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Greek sphinx. Photo: Jeanhousen In Greek mythology the sphinx was a malevolent creature with the face of a woman, the body of a lion, ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

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 The Romans Carry off the treasures of the Temple Relief fromTitus Arch, Rome The “Three Weeks”, a period of mourning for the loss ...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Connecting the Land and the Book: the Omer and Ethics of the Fathers

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A table for counting the Omer In ancient Israel the first sheaf of the barley harvest was cut on the second day of the Passover festival...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Vincent van Gogh and Herod the Great: Exhibitions of Genius and Madness

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For 2,000 years it has been thought that there is a connection between genius and mental illness.  Seneca, the 1st century Roman philosopher...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Sound the Great Shofar of Our Freedom

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Here in Jerusalem the days are getting shorter.  The children are back at school.  The summer sun has lost its ferocious heat and the evenin...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Of Kings and Queens and Jubilees

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Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897 I spent a few weeks in England recently and was inevitably caught up in the four day public h...
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