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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 27, 2026, 2:20 PM

When Leadership Fails to Lead

A little more than a year ago a group of 80 Rabbis wrote a letter espousing their moral outrage for Israel’s behavior in Gaza, Yehuda and Shomron. The term people use for these rabbis is Orthodox. I have always...

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, 5:52 PM

Israel Must Win the Story Before the Question Is Asked

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For decades, Israel’s public advocacy has largely operated in reactive mode. A war begins, a terrorist attack takes place or an accusation is leveled, and Israel scrambles to respond. Officials appear on television to explain military operations, rebut allegations...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Aug 25, 2026, 5:40 AM

Summer in Jerusalem

The Nameless One has very recently given a first-hand account of Jerusalem in today’s climate (literally). He reveals, “So far, the summer has been fantastic—not too hot, at least not in Jerusalem—and we are already entering the beautiful month...

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...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 20, 2026, 12:30 PM

We Will Survive: Qiyamah Optimistic Eschatology

The Book 1 Enoch marks a new religious perspective. So familiar do 1 Ezra’s themes look in retrospect – angels, personal and national Judgment, one or two Messiahs, plus a Son of Man – that we can easily fail...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 18, 2026, 12:35 AM

The Nordic Rift: How Scandinavia Estranged Israel

The Postwar Consensus and Shared Idealism In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the nations of the Nordic world viewed the nascent State of Israel not with suspicion, but with a profound and genuine affinity. This was a...

Aug 17, 2026, 6:53 PM

The Temple Mount: Sacred Space

This is where God chose to reside, the place to which the nation of Israel came on the three pilgrimage festivals to see and be seen, the only place where sacrifices to God were permitted, the place that Jews...

Aug 17, 2026, 12:15 AM

Does Copper Scroll Section 46 Describe the Ramat Rachel Mystery Tunnel?

Does Section 46 of the Copper Scroll Describe the Giant Tunnel Discovered at Ramat Rachel in May 2026? Section 46 of the Copper Scroll refers to Beit HaKerem, identified by a number of scholars with present-day Ramat Rachel. Could its...

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