Galilee

Priest, general, defector, Roman pensioner — how one first-century author became the lens through which we see ancient Judaism.

An ideal of universal rest meets a city that doubles in size. Who kept the lights on during the pilgrim festivals?

Two groups everyone has heard of, documented almost entirely by outsiders. What the sources really say about the Pharisees and Sadducees.

What "peripheria" really means in Israel — and why a $10B Intel fab sits in a town that still tops unemployment.

Same population, same year, wildly different numbers — why the Arab Israeli identity polling keeps contradicting itself.

Fifteen hours of torch juggling, nonstop music, and a rain ritual the Torah never commanded — inside the Second Temple's wildest celebration.