Last week, as part of the Window to Mount Zion project, I guided a group of pre-army students from around the world, who wanted to discover Jerusalem's amazing religious diversity. After an introductory seminar on the concept of holiness, we toured the holy sites on Mo...

Last week I gave an in-depth tour to a group from the Masa program Achvat Amim. We focused on contested religious spaces in Jerusalem, including the Southern Walls, Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, and Room of the Last Supper/David's Tomb on Mount Zion. Despite the rain,...

A couple of interesting developments in Israeli archaeology this week. First of all, there will be new excavations at Masada for the first time in over a decade. Hopefully this will help shed some light over what happened when the Romans defeated the rebels. Second, ma...

Earlier in January, with Mejdi Tours, I had the pleasure of guiding a wonderful group of students from Susquenna University in Pennsylania. They were here on an intensive two week program focusing on the different religious groups in and around Jerusalem. We explored t...