BEIT SHEMESH, Israel -- Shortly after sundown, Yaakov Tabersky presented his firstborn son on a silver platter to a Jewish priest in a ceremony harking back to the biblical exodus from Egypt. The ...
Pictures of ancient Jewish history, through the periods of Assyrian, Persian, Roman, medieval and modern times came back to life vividly when Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner of Palestine ...
No. Not that one lonely Samaritan, on a road two millennia ago. This is not about him, famous from the New Testament parable of The Good Samaritan who stops and helps a beaten traveler after two ...
It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...