Yair Whiteson, 13, found as bronze ring while hiking with his father. Experts believe it depicts Minerva or Athena and dates be leading to a new chapter,” said Thoufeek Zakriya, a Hebrew calligrapher and scholar of Jewish history. The settlement on the Carmel forest ridge has been under archaeological investigation for 150 years, yet the ring has only now been found. Yair and his father gave the ring to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which dated [...]

Hundreds of people gathered in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood on July 18 to complete a new Torah scroll dedicated to the hostages who remain held in Gaza. The Torah scroll project was initiated by Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as part of a Week of Goodness effort led by the family to inspire acts of kindness. The last 120 letters in the scroll were completed by scribe Akiva Garber that [...]

Three Columbia University administrators have been “permanently removed from their positions” after sending a series of derisive text messages during a panel on campus Jewish life, Angela V. Olinto, the university’s provost, said in a statement. In an accompanying letter, Columbia President Minouche Shafik wrote that the texts echoed antisemitism and vowed to start a “vigorous program of antisemitism and antidiscrimination training” in the fall, when classes reconvene. The three deans at the center of [...]

In the face of rising antisemitism around the world and the number of Holocaust survivors steadily decreasing, Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, is stepping up efforts to preserve Holocaust memorabilia. Part of the massive repository of Holocaust-related artifacts had been scattered around Yad Vashem’s vast campus, but now they will be housed in the new David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, which opened last month, housing the artifacts in a protected [...]