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Amanda Borschel-Dan
Amanda Borschel-Dan
Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel's Jewish World and Archaeology editor.
A 1951 image of the Hebrew University's Prof. Eleazar Sukenik with one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Department of Archaeology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem - National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection)
April 19, 2018, 7:50 am
ToI asks the experts: What are the most important finds of Israeli archaeology?
From Dead Sea Scrolls to space-age tech, the dramatic history of the ever-developing field is indelibly entwined with that of the nation itself
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A pupil prepares the Sanhedrin Trail as a gift to the country on the occasion of its 70th year of independence. (Israel Antiquities Authority)
April 16, 2018, 12:29 pm
1,400-year-old menorah lamp, rare coin found as kids dig trail for Israel’s 70th
Galilee's new, high-tech 70 kilometer interactive ‘Sanhedrin Trail’ is blazed on paths that were walked by great Jewish thinkers 1,900 years ago
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Pupils from Benzion Netanyahu school in the West Bank settlement of Barkan hold a piece of 1,500 pottery that was once part of an oil lamp. (courtesy)
April 9, 2018, 4:46 pm
Pupils reconstruct 1,500-year-old Holy Land life in school archaeological dig
Newly uncovered ornately decorated oil lamps served as the heart of family life during the Talmudic era
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
New construction of a permanent pluralistic prayer platform in the Davidson Archaeological Park at the Western Wall, February 5, 2018. (The Masorti Movement in Israel)
March 27, 2018, 4:35 pm
PM partially unfreezes Western Wall pluralistic plaza plan, to some dismay
Masorti head backs planned renovation, but Women of the Wall say it's like 'keeping women relegated to the back of the bus but reupholstering the seats'
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A student from Armstrong College holds a coin discovered at the Ophel archaeological dig outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, where a hoard of rare bronze coins from the Jewish Revolt was recently discovered, dating to circa 66-70CE. (Eilat Mazar)
March 26, 2018, 3:49 pm
Rare trove of bronze Jewish Revolt coins unearthed near Temple Mount
Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar's renewed excavation in the Ophel complex uncovers hoard in cave where Jerusalem residents sought refuge during war against the Romans
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Michael Melchior speaks at the Global Forum for Combatting Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, March 21, 2018. (Envision Experiential Marketing, Ron Shelef)
March 22, 2018, 8:37 pm
How change became possible in a hotbed of intolerance, Malmö, Sweden
At Global Forum for Combatting Anti-Semitism, Rabbi Michael Melchior says interfaith cooperation necessary to combat doctrinal anti-Semitism -- and make a better world
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An orthophoto created from a 3D model of an adult male (center) and adult female (bottom) during excavation of the 3,600-year-old burial cave at Megiddo. (Adam Prins and Robert S. Homsher)
March 21, 2018, 11:30 pm
Untouched for 3,600 years, ‘royal’ tomb may change what we know about Canaanites
Located at the crossroads of civilization, a Tel Megiddo burial chamber includes a diadem-bedecked male skeleton, and hints that bones did not always rest in peace
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
'Kipat Barzel' writer Avner Bernheimer (left) speaks with The Times of Israel's culture editor Jessica Steinberg about his TV series focusing on an ultra-Orthodox unit in the army, March 18, 2018 at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. (Daniel Laufer)
March 19, 2018, 1:33 pm
Amid ultra-Orthodox conscription crisis, Israeli TV series becomes overnight hit
The Times of Israel's Jessica Steinberg interviews 'Kipat Barzel' creator Avner Bernheimer onstage at an English-subtitled screening of his show about Haredi IDF soldiers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Yoli Shwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 15, 2018, 3:47 pm
Two Dead Sea Scrolls to go on display for the first time in new Denver exhibit
Israel Antiquities Authority stages massive six-month show, featuring a three-ton stone from the Western Wall and 18 other Dead Sea Scrolls
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Trip leader Shuka Revak, 86, fulfills a life-long dream as he reaches Avdat in Israel from Jordan's Petra, February 2018. (courtesy)
March 15, 2018, 2:56 pm
86-year-old guide helps discover section of Incense Route lost for millennia
Traversing 100 kilometers in five days, Shuka Ravek fulfills dream and walks from Petra to Avdat in the footsteps of Nabateans
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Marc Schneier at The Times of Israel Jerusalem offices, February 28, 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
March 15, 2018, 4:04 am
A rabbi in King Hamad’s court preaches Torah of interfaith tolerance
Head of Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Rabbi Marc Schneier 'engages' with Gulf states' royal families in hopes of shoring up peace in the Middle East
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prof. Steven P. Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania's Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and Religion (courtesy)
March 7, 2018, 11:54 pm
To dig up genesis of the Jewish people, a scholar goes back to the sources
National Jewish Book Award winner Steven Weitzman's 'The Origin of the Jews' is an odyssey into a nation's most basic need: To understand where it comes from
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members hold Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 6, 2018, 3:29 pm
Chief Rabbinate should not control Western Wall’s mixed prayer section, says AG
In a response to the High Court, government says those praying at the Robinson's arch pluralistic pavilion should be protected by police
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and TOI staff
Destruction in a 2,000-year-old Galilee Roman village and opening of the burial cave exposed by a backhoe. (Nir Distelfeld, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 6, 2018, 1:50 pm
Antiquities robbers sentenced to jail for destroying 2,000-year-old graves
In light of irrevocable damage to Second Temple Jewish settlement, Israel Antiquities Authority hopes prison terms will prove a deterrent
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer with campers at the Szarvas International Jewish Summer Camp in Hungary, a project of JDC and Ronald Lauder. (courtesy)
February 28, 2018, 3:01 am
New JDC head brings a business approach to aiding needy Jews
After a year at the helm of the 103-year-old American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, David M. Schizer lays out his pragmatic plan to continue its eternal mission
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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