Finding the Copper Scroll
By Shelley Neese In the spring of 1952, Henri de Contenson, a young French scholar, mounted an expedition to scout desert terraces and cliffs in the Judean desert. They were looking for Dead Sea Scrolls, racing against the illicit Bedouin excavations by using their...
The Holy Calendar
By Shelley Neese This week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 31:1 to 31:30. It is titled Vayeilech which means “and he went.” As the text opens, the people are about to enter into a period of warfare. To take possession of the land, they will first have to fight....
Breaking Israel News features The Copper Scroll Project
Note from Shelley: I did an interview with Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz on Sunday night. We talked for three hours. By the next morning, he had already written and posted the article. Eliyahu is prolific! I think he will do more articles on The Copper Scroll Project in the...
Intro to Parasha
By Shelley Neese Jewish tradition holds that 2500 years ago, Ezra the scribe and Jewish elders created an annual reading schedule which divided the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, into 54 sections. The sections are called parasha, or portion. Following the...