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Sep 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

A lamentation for Jerusalem: Remembering Emek Refaim

Construction on Emek Refaim - (c) Ilana Brown

The city that Yehuda Amichai and I love is disappearing amid bland high-rises that crush the Eternal City's spirit with mediocrity and greed (PHOTO ESSAY)

Sep 18, 2026, 7:07 PM

Baptism 2030: Israel, Jordan and Palestine Unlock Kahlat and the Copper Scroll?

Israel and Jordan Prepare for the 2,000th Anniversary of the Baptism: Could Academic Cooperation Reveal the Secrets of Kahlat and the Copper Scroll? The year 2030 will mark 2,000 years since the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River—an event...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:30 PM

From Jerusalem to Jericho, Did Gold Classify Water Quality in the Copper Scroll?

From “Waters of Gold” to a Water Registry: The Linguistic Sources of the Copper Scroll The use of “gold” as a metaphor for exceptional quality, purity, and supreme value is familiar in modern Hebrew expressions such as “the golden age,”...

Sep 9, 2026, 2:14 PM

Kahlat and the Hidden Archive of Section 60: Jordan River and Copper Scroll

Geographic Background and Identification Traditions: Ein Samiya versus Ein Kahlat Over the years, research on the Copper Scroll has examined several sites in an attempt to identify the mysterious location called “Kahlat.” Ein Samiya (in the Wadi Yitav system): The largest...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:09 PM

Jericho area: A New Hypothesis on Mysterious Latin Letters in the Copper Scroll

The Copper Scroll: Are Its Mysterious Foreign Letters Codes Used by Ancient Water Engineers? The Uniqueness of the Jericho District and the Concentration of the Greek Signs One of the most striking features of the Copper Scroll is not the meaning...

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

Aug 25, 2026, 8:47 PM

Jerusalem: Unknown Reservoirs in Absalom’s Tomb on Pilgrims’ way to Temple Mount

The Hidden Waterworks of the Kidron Valley: Do Sections 48–49 of the Copper Scroll Lead to Absalom’s Tomb and the Tomb of Jehoshaphat? This article explores an attempt to decipher a mysterious and potentially extensive water installation beneath the western...

Aug 25, 2026, 12:05 PM

The Old City Belonged to Everyone Except Me

I used to despise the Old City of Jerusalem. It felt intimidating, heavy, tense. Everyone seemed to belong to some tribe I did not belong to, dressed for a ritual I could not relate to, heading somewhere with absolute purpose. There...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 24, 2026, 12:43 AM

Discovering Gold in Israel

In the sixth Haftara of comfort, the Haftara for Parshat Ki Tavo, we come across an interesting verse about God compensating Israel (Yishayahu 60:17): “Where once there was copper, I will bring gold and where there was iron, silver....

Aug 21, 2026, 6:52 PM

Copper Scroll: From the Pool of Siloam to the Jordan River Basin and Qumran

Trying to Decipher Section 47 of the Copper Scroll: A New Hypothesis on the Hidden Engineering of the Pool of Siloam. Following the hydro-archaeological analysis that proposed identifying Section 46 of the Copper Scroll with the mysterious tunnel at Ramat...

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