Education
A look at some of what Israeli archeologists have dug up from the Hasmonean dynasty that ruled the land following the Maccabees’ Hanukkah triumph.
Experts believe that the coin, which bears the inscription “Holy Jerusalem,” was minted with Temple silver, and possibly by a Temple priest.
“Mind you, it never takes the form of brutal speech or action, but rather, it brews, all the more intensely, under the surface,” wrote the physicist and mathematician in 1936.
The annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) represented a bulwark against academic elitism and suppression of divergent ideas.
At around the age of his bar mitzvah, he became involved in the pre-state, underground Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, or Lehi.
After an Israeli court halted the sale of the tattoo stamps following an outcry, the anonymous seller has decided to donate them to the Haifa Holocaust Museum.
Among the winners was the satirical news show “Jew or False,” which addresses misinformation concerning the Jewish community.
Plays, texts and chants designed to incite children occurred from Jenin to Hebron across the West Bank and in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Haifa, Zayed universities sign MoU for research, student and faculty exchanges
The agreement will foster shared information and joint projects across a variety of disciplines, such as marine sciences, education and natural-resources management.
“Our teachers and our children need to be taught Israel’s beauty and complexity in order to appreciate it,” said Jake Bennett, the Israeli-American Council for Action’s director of policy and legislative affairs.
“While language about teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was removed from the original version, district policy still requires such topics to be covered in an unbiased way,” stated StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
“It is deeply disturbing that a public high school with a diverse student population was targeted,” said Scott Levin, Mountain States regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.
