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Nov 4, 2026, 9:47 PM

Were Qumran Caves and Baptism Sites Temporarily Abandoned as the Dead Sea Rose?

The Dead Sea, Qumran and Baptism Sites: What Might the Ancient Landscape Reveal? Fluctuations in the Dead Sea’s level may help explain the conditions in which the scrolls survived, the location of baptism sites and the significance of water installations...

Nov 1, 2026, 1:45 PM

12 Years Later: Europe’s Energy Paradox, Tusk Return and Just Transition

Just Transition- The Socio-Political Actuality. ©Carmit Lubanov

In September 2014, over a hundred meters below ground in the historic salt chambers of Wieliczka, Poland, a remarkable dialogue took place. Convened by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, climate scientists, progressive thinkers, and representatives of Polish coal mining trade...

Oct 26, 2026, 11:03 AM

The Lamp and the Furnace

India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal at the Berlin Global Dialogue during the panel discussion on "New Era, New Alliances: The Third Path?" October 22, 2026. (Source: Piyush Goyal/Facebook)

Will electricity power inclusive prosperity and a cleaner future - or deepen inequality and the climate crisis? What does India’s experience reveal? Picture a village in northern India in 2017. A transformer hums on a pole. A government ledger records...

Richard H. Schwartz

Oct 25, 2026, 10:46 AM

Israel’s Best Hope for a Positive Future

Israel faces a fateful choice: continue down a path of seemingly endless conflict, growing international isolation, spreading antisemitism, and mounting demographic and economic challenges—or pursue a strategy offering lasting security, regional acceptance, and a brighter future. Military strength cannot...

Oct 23, 2026, 5:32 PM

Will Pilgrims Leave Qasr al-Yahud After Jordan’s Decision on the Baptism Site?

The Copper Scroll, Jordan’s New Nature Reserve and the Dispute over Jesus’ Baptism Site. As Amman positions Bethany Beyond the Jordan for “Baptism 2030,” an early Hebrew text and a reconstruction of the region’s changing waterscape may help connect Second...

Oct 14, 2026, 9:36 PM

Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Winner—AI?!

Seven years ago in an article entitled "Tectonic Shifts Adds Champagne to Million Dollar Math Prize, I declared in the Times of Israel (7-15-2019) that I’d gift a $1,000 bottle of champagne—aside from the million dollar prize offered by the...

Oct 14, 2026, 3:08 PM

Ramat Rachel’s Mysterious Waterworks: Two Discoveries in Jerusalem in Six Months

Ramat Rachel’s Water Mystery: Why Two Major Discoveries in Six Months Call for a Systemic Engineering Approach This week, the discovery of a roughly 2,000-year-old aqueduct south of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, was announced. The approximately 300-meter section...

Rafi Addlestone

Oct 9, 2026, 7:07 PM

The Fruit of Knowledge: AI, climate, and our children

In the opening chapters of Bereishit (Genesis), humanity makes a choice that alters the trajectory of existence. Adam and Eve eat from the Etz HaDa'at Tov VaRa—the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In an instant, their...

Rafi Addlestone

Oct 1, 2026, 5:50 PM

What Jonah knew that the climate movement doesn’t

Warnings only work when the fix is cheap, or the moral argument has been won. It's an odd thing to read on the holiest day of the year. Yom Kippur afternoon, the flattest hour, everyone tired and hungry and the...

Richard H. Schwartz

Sep 24, 2026, 10:15 AM

Sukkot: A Universal Holiday with a Message for Humanity

Sukkot commemorates the Israelites dwelling in temporary shelters during their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and is deeply rooted in Jewish history, Scripture, and tradition. Yet it also has an extraordinary universal dimension. Its teachings point beyond...

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