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Amanda Borschel-Dan
Amanda Borschel-Dan
Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel's Jewish World editor.
David Tanami, an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist, works his way into the narrow tomb opening to bring out a jar at a Canaanite burial site near Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo. (Shua Kisilevitz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
September 25, 2017, 2:31 pm
Afterlife snack: Jar of toads popped open in 4,000-year-old Canaanite tomb dig
Excavation just outside Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo gives window into funerary rites, with unexpected remains of decapitated toads and not-local myrtle and date pollen
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on Thursday, February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)
September 19, 2017, 6:33 pm
In response to court, state shuts door on Western Wall deal
Asked to rethink freeze on implementing 2016 compromise agreement, and whether it could be forced to implement the plan it agreed to, government answers with a no and a no
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A jumble of bones found at the Khirbet el-Maqatir archaeological dig in 2013. (Steven Rudd)
September 12, 2017, 3:11 pm
A 2,000-year-old murder leads to an illicit burial in the heart of the West Bank
When archaeologists said 7 women and a youth found in caves were slain by Romans during the Great Revolt, settlers secretly stepped in to illegally pay their last respects
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Haifa University Prof. Danny Rosenberg holds the 7,200-year-old model clay grain silo found at Tel Tsaf in the Jordan Valley. (Haifa University)
September 6, 2017, 5:02 pm
Unique 7,200-year-old clay model silo forces rethink of how society evolved
Discovered at Tel Tsaf in the Jordan Valley, one-of-a-kind vessel testifies to earliest agricultural rituals known in the ancient Near East
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Complete seal bearing the name 'Ahiav ben Menahem' found at Jerusalem' City of David, summer 2017. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
September 4, 2017, 2:12 pm
Jerusalem welcomed Jewish refugees 2,700 years ago, new finds show
A trove of clay imprints from official documents indicates that after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel, refugees fled to the Kingdom of Judah, where they rose in the ranks
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on Thursday, February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)
September 1, 2017, 2:27 pm
With muddled decision on Western Wall freeze, court appears wary to intervene
Bizarre High Court stance with no teeth asks the state whether the court can legally enforce the pluralistic pavilion plan; leaves petitioners 'with a lot of questions'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Conservative Jews pray at the temporary egalitarian Robinson's Arch prayer pavilion at the southern end of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)
August 31, 2017, 6:32 am
Could a 1924 British Mandate law kill the Western Wall pluralistic pavilion?
A long-awaited High Court hearing will assemble petitioners on both sides of a frozen government decision to stake their claims at Judaism's holiest site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Souvenir 'coins' made at the Israel Museum's Youth Wing, alongside their certificate of inauthenticity. (Israel Museum)
August 27, 2017, 4:52 pm
Too good to be true: 8-year-old’s ‘rare coin’ not an ancient artifact
Originally thought to have been minted during the 66-70 CE Jewish Revolt, the piece is actually a worthless, kid-made souvenir from the Israel Museum's Youth Wing
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
8-year-old Hallel Halevy holding her find of a rare 2,00-year-old half-shekel coin on August 23, 2017 in Halamish. (courtesy)
August 24, 2017, 11:47 pm
8-year-old girl’s 2,000-year-old ‘half-shekel’ turns out to be museum souvenir
Coin found in Halamish, initially believed to be minted just prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, is actually one of thousands produced by children each year at Israel Museum, expert says
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An archaeologist works on part of a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, on August 23, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)
August 23, 2017, 11:18 am
Outside Jerusalem’s Old City, a once-in-a-lifetime find of ancient Greek inscription
During a salvage excavation ahead of telephone cable infrastructure placement, archaeologists uncover a rare intact 1,500-year-old mosaic from the dawn of the Christian empire
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Jewish men pray during the holiday of Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 22, 2017, 9:54 pm
US State Department slams Israeli stagnation on religious freedom reform
Annual report homes in on hot-button areas of Western Wall pluralism, conversion and who has the right to pray at the country's holiest sites
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A display of smuggled Jewish items which were seized in Egypt on August 17, 2017 (Facebook)
August 21, 2017, 4:57 pm
Bizarre 18th century Jewish items seized from archaeology smuggler in Egypt
Collection of artifacts taken from a Saudi citizen; also found, and undated, was a 29-page book written in esoteric 'Hebrew,' described as 'the commandments of Judas Iscariot' -- and illustrated with scorpions
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
'Faces of Power,' a temporary exhibit of the Victor A. Adda collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (Elie Posner)
August 21, 2017, 9:27 am
Israel Museum coin exhibit shows a daughter’s love is worth more than gold
Priceless collection of 75 gold Roman coins depicts evolution of propaganda and portraiture over 300 years
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The ritual baths of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, excavated by a team of Israeli, American and Lithuanian archaeologists, summer 2017. (John Seligman/IAA)
August 18, 2017, 12:14 pm
Archaeologists uncover the heart of Nazi-razed Vilnius synagogue
Discovery of ritual baths adds another dimension to reconstruct daily life of slaughtered community known as the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Christopher Cantwell, speaker for Unite the Right, shows off his weapons in this screenshot from Vice documentary 'Charlottesville: Race and Terror,' screened August 14, 2017. (Screenshot)
August 16, 2017, 11:15 pm
Ivanka and Jared targeted with vivid anti-Semitic rhetoric in ‘Vice’ doc
In interviews surrounding Saturday's violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, far-right activist warns, 'A lot more people are going to die before we're done here'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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