Sanhedrin

The Politics and Poetry of Byzantine Jews

Even in the years of decline, the Land of Israel remained a center of Jewish creativity.

Tamar Marvin
July 31 2023 12:01AM

In Conceding Defeat, Yohanan ben Zakkai Paved the Way for the Restoration of Jewish Sovereignty

Returning Yavneh to the Zionist story.

Meir Soloveichik
Dec. 17 2021 12:01AM

Signs of Jewish Life, and Death, Discovered at the Ancient Capital of Rabbinic Scholarship

Yavneh and its sages.

Aaron Reich
Nov. 30 2021 12:01AM

An Ancient Hammer and Nails Found in What Was Once a Major Jewish Village in the Galilee

It probably didn’t belong to Usha’s most famous rabbi.

Amanda Borschel-Dan
Oct. 31 2019 12:01AM

A 5th-Century Gold Coin Found in Israel Commemorates the Emperor Who Took Away Jews’ Rights

Evidence of the man who ended the Sanhedrin, on the Sanhedrin Trail.

Amanda Borschel-Dan
April 17 2019 12:01AM