My Road To Israel
My grandparents immigrated from Russia and Poland to the New York around 1900. My parents met at Brooklyn College; started their family on the East Coast, and moved to Albany, California in 1945, as my father was offered a job in San Francisco. I was born in 1946, and raised in Berkeley, California, where I…
Stubbytail
Contents Part I Stubbytail and “THE ONLY OTHER CAT IN THE VICINITY”Part II How Artist’s Drawing Would Eventually be Auctioned Off at Christie’s for an Exorbitant Sum Part 1 Chapter 1 How Stubbytail Found Out He Had A Stubby Tail and Phantom Tail Syndrome Stubbytail was born with only a stub of a tail and…
Biblical Names: Yael and Judith
There are two similar Biblical stories. The Book of Judges (4:17-22 and 5:24-31), tells of Yael, a Kenite woman, who kills Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army, by driving a tent peg through his skull while he is sleeping. Sisera is the leader of the Canaanite army under King Jabin around 1200 BC in the area…
The Ashkelon Canaanite Fortress and City Gate
The Canaanite City Gate is the most ancient arched gate in the world. It consists of an arched corridor with arched openings on both ends. The gate was constructed in approximately 1850 BCE as part of the city’s fortification system, and is built mostly of mud bricks with some calcareous limestone. It is 15 meters…
Ancient Site for Manufacture of Techelet Dye Discovered in Shikmona Haifa Area
In 1999, Prof. Ayelet Gilboa of the University of Haifa Zinman Institute of Archaeology, and a research student of hers, Golan Shalvi, examined pitchers and pottery fragments from the earlier archeological excavation (1963 to 1977) of ancient Shikmona by archaeologist Dr. Yosef Elgavish on behalf of the Haifa Municipality’s museums department, revealing that the ancient Shikmona…
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