Ancient Jewish ‘Migdal’: 2 Synagogues Within Just 200 Meters… (PICTURES)

Biblical Migdal (aka Magdala)

By Nosson Shulman: Licensed Tour Guide of VIP Israel Tours Authentic Virtual Tours (click here to check out his free trailer videos)

 

For the children of Naphtali… Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-‘anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages (Joshua 19: 32-38)”

Migdal (Magdala) is beautifully situated on the Sea of Galilee.
Photo Credit: RnDmS / Shutterstock

Today, we are visiting one of Israel’s best kept secrets! Ancient Migdal (Magdala) is as beautiful as it is historic. In 2021 this sleepy town (pop. 2000) just north of Tiberias, was in the news for an exciting (and very rare) find, revolutionizing the way researchers understood an entire time period (more on that shortly). During the Second Temple period, Migdal was an important city and the unique findings we will see here more than substantiate this! Today’s Migdal, is just across the highway from ancient Migdal.

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From Guided Tours of Israel, here.

The Media Don’t Even Bother to Retract PROVEN LIES Anymore

Why Newspapers Refuse to Correct Errors

COMMENTARY

February 08, 2022

Many iconic U.S. newspapers sport slogans that seek to explain their mission – and self-image. “All the News That’s Fit to Print” has been called “the seven most famous words in American journalism.” “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was an overtly partisan call to arms. But the most telling section of a newspaper’s true values is its “Corrections” page. That’s where journalism distinguishes itself from just about every other profession, routinely and straightforwardly admitting its mistakes. Who else does that?

It is a soul-crushing enterprise. A single misspelled name is all it takes to ruin an otherwise stellar article. We reporters may forget the topic of the piece we wrote last week, while the error five years ago is seared into our memories. But it is also crucial: Reader trust is the lifeblood of journalism. If you can’t believe what you read, why bother?

And yet, we do get things wrong all the time. Despite the self-righteous claims of too many news outlets, journalists don’t print The Truth. The “first draft of history” is necessarily messy and incomplete. What journalists have long promised readers is that we will do our best to get the story right initially and then set the record straight when better information emerges. This isn’t solely a commitment to high-minded ethics. It is also transactional: Journalists can so readily acknowledge errors because readers honor and reward our honesty. They forgive us our trespasses because we acknowledge them.

Unfortunately, this glorious compact between readers and journalists is evolving in dangerous directions, as news coverage becomes corrupted by the give-no-quarter partisan divide that shapes our politics. Increasingly, readers expect their favored news sources to advance their favored narrative, the facts be damned. And many news outlets, beset by immense economic challenges, seem happy to satisfy them to stay afloat.

A notable example is the stubborn unwillingness of major news outlets to correct clear errors in their coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation.

On Nov. 24, my colleague at RealClearInvestigations, Aaron Maté, wrote a detailed article highlighting a series of stories published by the New York Times and the Washington Post that contained “false or misleading claims.” The pieces he analyzed were either part of the entry the papers submitted to win a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for their Russiagate coverage or were written by reporters who shared in that honor. Significantly, the major errors and misleading assertions identified by Maté were not based on newly discovered information, but on documents and statements long in the public domain.

Before publication, Maté sent multiple detailed requests for comment to the reporters and newspaper representatives. All but one of his queries went unanswered. As of Feb. 7, neither newspaper has appended a single correction or clarification to the articles Maté discussed. Here are two examples from the Times that reflect the problems Maté found.

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From Real Clear Politics, here.

The Subtle Conflict Between Anti-Zionist Activism and Jew-Hatred

Violence Against Diaspora Jews Weirdly Ineffective In Convincing Them Jews Don’t Need Israel For Safety

Activists acknowledged such treatment only accelerated the emigration of Jews.

Cairo, February 3 – Opponents of Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland voiced frustration today that their ongoing efforts to demonstrate that Jews do not need that sovereignty, by means of harassing, attacking, and inciting against those Jews everywhere, has borne little practical fruit, with vanishingly few Jews remaining in those lands that spent hundreds or thousands of years treating them as second-class at best, and as fodder for extermination at worst.

Anti-Zionist activists in the Middle East, where thriving Jewish communities existed until the middle of the twentieth century amid rising persecution, expressed puzzlement and disappointment in numerous interviews and discussions this week that their main avenue of endeavor to convince Jews to trust their host cultures to protect them – in the main by confiscating Jewish property, mass-raping Jewish women, imprisoning Jews on trumped-up charges, subjecting Jews to massacres and pillage, and generally making living safely as a Jew in countries throughout the region untenable – has enjoyed precious little success. In fact, the activists acknowledged, such treatment only accelerated the migration of Jews from the lands they had inhabited for up to twenty-five centuries to the reestablished Jewish one.

“Jews don’t need to cause trouble or risk displacing Palestinian Arabs by establishing a state of their own,” argued Moroccan activist Hassan Mubruk. “That’s a point my predecessors and I have made repeatedly, but the Jews refused to listen, and now the region has seen a century of turmoil. As soon as the Zionists declared their statehood more than seventy years ago, our governments stressed that in cogent terms: we nationalized their property, looted their homes, beat them in the streets, and sent them packing with little more than the clothes on their backs – and they spat on our faces by going, by and large, to the Zionist entity, in direct contravention of everything we had worked to instill in them. The lack of appreciation for our concern for their welfare just galls.”

“We don’t have any Jews left here,” noted Yemeni activist Itbah al-Yahud. “The last handful were expelled last year. It’s a shame that after more than two thousand years here, they failed to realize how good they had it, and after 1948 left in large numbers whenever an opportunity presented itself. How could they possibly not want to stay? They had protected status, which our society understood as license to abuse, torment, oppress, and harass them. Ingrates.”

Activists also observed that their colleagues in most European countries expressed parallel puzzlement.

From PreOccupied Territory, here.

Harry Moskoff: We Have Incense Shovels From the Holy Temple!

Ending off a long, fascinating JPost article about the Temple treasures held captive by the Vatican, including supposed live witness accounts, intrepid Harry Moskoff of “The A.R.K. Report” writes:

… There have been many stories written about this subject matter before, but none has tackled the fact that up to 10 incense shovels have been found in Israel over the many years of biblical archaeology here. I know because I’ve held them in my hands: 2,000-year-old bronze (now green, of course!) shovels that are about 40 cm long that can still be used today!  They were found all over Israel, from Jerusalem in the region of the Temple area itself, to cities near Tiberias in the north and on the shores of the Kinneret.

They all have one thing in common.  They belonged to the various synagogues that were in Israel during the late Roman period, some perhaps being consecrated for the Temple itself!  Many of these treasures were sent abroad to places such as Abu Dhabi, South Korea, and Singapore, while others went to Rome (acquired by the Vatican), and even Beverly Hills. They fit the description of the machtah (incense shovels) perfectly, being the same size and shape of those utensils that were used by the priests in the Herodian Temple, as described in the Talmud.

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